On May 16, 4:30 am, "thomas p." <gudl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Bill Bowden" <wrongaddr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i en
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> > On May 15, 9:46 am, "L. Raymond" <badaddress@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> Bill Bowden wrote:
> >> > No, can't do that. I have more interesting things to do. I'm happy
> >> > with the quotations I have, and that the US was founded on Judeo-
> >> > Christian values.
>
> >> In other words, you have a strongly held opinion given to you by web
> >> sites about the relation****p between a book you've never read and a
> >> series of do***ents you've never read, concerning political
principles
> >> with which you're not familiar held by people whose writings you've
> >> never read.
>
> >> You can't even articulate your position, much less defend it, and now
> >> you're running away.
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> >> You, at least, are demonstrating that genuine Christian principles
> >> inform your beliefs.
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> >> --
> >> L. Raymond
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> > I just agree with 84 percent of the american people. It's hard to
> > ignore the 1000 pound gorrilla in the room.
>
> Which has absolutely nothing to do with the validity of your claim.
>
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> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States
>
> > "Among "developed nations", the US is one of the most religious.
> > According to a 2002 study by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, the US
> > was the only developed nation in the survey where a majority of
> > citizens re****ted that religion played a "very im****tant" role in
> > their lives, an attitude similar to that found in its neighbors in
> > Latin America.[1]
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> > Most U.S. adult citizens adhere to Christianity (78.5%[2]). A 2001
> > survey[2] found 15% of the adult population to have no religious
> > affiliation, still significantly less than in other postindustrial
> > countries such as Britain (44%) and Sweden (69%).[3] According to ARIS
> > and other studies, non-Christian religions (including Judaism,
> > Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and others) collectively make up about 5.5%
> > of the adult population."
>
> In the meantime you have offered no evidence for the truth of your
claim.
Well, since I'm poor and uneducated, all I can do is dig out another
Prager quote for you to chew on. I wasn't aware a verse from the Torah
was inscribed on the Liberty Bell.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0805/prager082305.php3
"The Left regards itself as morally elevated because of its
preoccupation with materialism. Yet religious Americans who reject
materialism are far more likely than left-leaning parents in the same
socio-economic condition to sacrifice materially in order to have one
parent be a full-time parent. And Judeo-Christian values explain why a
religious woman is far more likely to sacrifice materially by giving
birth to, rather than aborting, an unplanned child.
Even freedom is a higher value to one who holds Judeo-Christian
values. That is why the materialist leftist world so often celebrated
and continues to celebrate communist regimes. Those regimes may have
rendered their societies prisons, but they (at least in theory)
reduced material inequality.
That is why the founders of America, the place where Judeo-Christian
values have flourished, inscribed a verse from the Torah, the primary
source of Judeo-Christian values, on the Liberty Bell: "Proclaim
liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof."
Freedom, too, has no material value."
-Bill
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