I can’t stand it when religious zealots say “we’re a christian nation!” No, no we’re not, the very first line of the first law to be written in the US was that we can’t have a state-religion
Who would have thought that a willingness to pick and choose which lines of your guiding text you’ll follow could have a downside? Easy enough to say god had his fingers crossed when saying all the bad stuff in the (King James Version (edition of 1769)) Bible and that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…” in the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights only applies to the wrong ones.
I can’t stand it when religious zealots say “we’re a christian nation!” No, no we’re not, the very first line of the first law to be written in the US was that we can’t have a state-religion
Who would have thought that a willingness to pick and choose which lines of your guiding text you’ll follow could have a downside? Easy enough to say god had his fingers crossed when saying all the bad stuff in the (King James Version (edition of 1769)) Bible and that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…” in the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights only applies to the wrong ones.