https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2IifHZ-Qog Remember to vote next time-correctly....
Just another film clip in rememberance
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RLENT
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"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion ...."
Treaty of Tripoli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion. Individuals, not the government, would define religious faith and practice in the United States. Thus the Founders ensured that in no official sense would America be a Christian Republic. Ten years after the Constitutional Convention ended its work, the country assured the world that the United States was a secular state, and that its negotiations would adhere to the rule of law, not the dictates of the Christian faith. The assurances were contained in the Treaty of Tripoli of 1797 and were intended to allay the fears of the Muslim state by insisting that religion would not govern how the treaty was interpreted and enforced. John Adams and the Senate made clear that the pact was between two sovereign states, not between two religious powers." - Frank Lambert, Professor of History at Purdue University
Treaty of Tripoli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion. Individuals, not the government, would define religious faith and practice in the United States. Thus the Founders ensured that in no official sense would America be a Christian Republic. Ten years after the Constitutional Convention ended its work, the country assured the world that the United States was a secular state, and that its negotiations would adhere to the rule of law, not the dictates of the Christian faith. The assurances were contained in the Treaty of Tripoli of 1797 and were intended to allay the fears of the Muslim state by insisting that religion would not govern how the treaty was interpreted and enforced. John Adams and the Senate made clear that the pact was between two sovereign states, not between two religious powers." - Frank Lambert, Professor of History at Purdue University
Press has already elected Hillary
The press may have, but i'm not so sure the American voter would.
RLENT
Veteran Expediter
Let's hope they would not ...
Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
The government was not, but our society was.
The American voter will vote for who ever the press tells them to.
I think in this case, the sheeple will do the right thing.
REALLY? Their track record says otherwise. Top it off with the fact that the Rumbumlicans are going to run another crap candidate and the end is what it is. The press wants Hillary, that is who it will be.
Islam is not compatible with Western values. Great Britain and France, indeed much of Europe, live in trepidation as demographic trends portend a worrisome future.
Here's a current example of Sharia law: Iranian man's eyes to be gouged out as punishment for pouring acid on girl - Middle East Israel News | Haaretz
Here's a current example of Sharia law: Iranian man's eyes to be gouged out as punishment for pouring acid on girl - Middle East Israel News | Haaretz
RLENT
Veteran Expediter
So ... what should one figure that we ought to do ?
Round them up and "concentrate" them in "camps" until we can figure out exactly what to do with them ?
A little ethnic/religious cleansing for any existing "offenders" currently stateside ?
A religious test for anyone wishing to immigrate, or for those seeking refugee status ?
What is the "solution" ?
Not real hard to imagine some in the bloodthirsty Christ-shun(ning) law-and-order crowd here in the US calling for something similar ...
After all he blinded her ... and eye for an eye ...
Of course, that doesn't even begin to touch those whose might be in the business of "exporting" of that famous Christ-shun "love" to far away lands:
US Apologizes, But Afghan Drone Deaths Another Big Hit to Ties
Our society was a lot of things we're not anymore. Living things [and societies qualify] change. It's either that, or entropy.
RLENT
Veteran Expediter
I'm afraid even that is a bridge too far for me, although I will certainly acknowledge that the United States was, and is predominately Christian (or at least claims to be) ... and there can be no denying of the influence that Christians played in defining some of the characteristics of who we are as a people.
Our society was founded originally in isolated little pockets of varying sects - primarily Christian - whose primary motivation seems to have been freedom and liberty of conscience, and the formation of a society based on those precepts as well as the rule of law, not of men ... and the equality of all men before the law.
These were the fundamental precepts the society came together around, in terms of forming a national polity ...
But to fail to acknowledge those non-Christians who contributed along the way to what we became as both a nation and a society, is to do them - and ourselves - a grave disservice:
History of the Jews in Charleston, South Carolina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
History of the Jews in Colonial America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American Muslims in the United States | Teaching Tolerance
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