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Re: Danish cartoons outrage some Moslem groups and nations
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:00:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Timothy Gould wrote:
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I will consider your removal of and lack of counterargument to the prior
text to be agreement. I’m glad I could be so convincing. ;)
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You were just asserting that the US was a secular demo, no? We are.
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Hmm...
“We are most certainly
*not* a secular nation.“
(Readers perusing that old thread for the first time should be warned that it
took place before my now-characteristic patience and politeness were
cemented...)
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lol Ah, using myself against myself, eh? Well, you’ve got a fool for a witness!
Looks as though I was a bit contentious as well...:-o
Okay, on to my apparent contradiction....
The United States of America is a secular democracy. Our very existence is
predicated upon the premise that government should not respect any particular
religion, thus making all free to practice their particular religion freely.
Now as it happens, the citizens of the United States of America are
overwhelmingly Christian, and while Christianity isn’t a state-sponsored
religion, the laws of our country reflect the Judeo-Christian values of its
citizens. That, it seems to me, to be only natural and expected.
So while our government is secular, our people are, for the most part, not. I
don’t deny the tension and tug-of-war between the two, but embrace it and point
to that struggle as evidence of the success of our government.
</tapdance> :-)
JOHN
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