🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 01:55:39 GMT, vonroach@ix.netcom.com (vonroach)
wrote:

>On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 13:51:04 -0500, Mike Smith <mws@wt.net> wrote:
>
>>You poor ignorant dumbass.......... I never stated that it was "in the
>>Constitution", I stated that our Government had acknowledged a Supreme
>>Being over 2 centuries ago.
>>
>>From the Declaration of Independence as presented in Congress July 4,
>>1776:<begin quote>
>
>The jackass is even dumber than you think Mike. The Pilgrims came to
>America to escape religious persecution. They said a touching prayer
>the day they departed from England praying for God's help. They said
>another prayer of thanksgiving after they had made the passage safely
>and again prayed for God's help. Their first act after choosing a site
>for their colony was to offer a prayer. One can get a sense of their
>faith in the document known as the Mayflower Compact signed by all
>while still on board the ship. Columbus also offered a prayer after a
>safe passage and invoked the name of God in claiming the new world for
>the King of Spain.
>A prayer is said at the inauguration of every President of the US.
>Both the Senate and the House begin each session with a prayer. Also
>read the inscription on the chamber where the Supreme Court sits.
>Finally, examine what is printed on each bill and stamped on each coin
>by the US mint. The first circumnavigation of the Moon was celebrated
>by reading a passage from the Bible.



That doesn't make it right, Gary. Would you feel the same if it were
Allah or Ganesh?

Why should the government compel me to acknowledge a belief in
anything?
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.

-Thomas Jefferson