signalmankenneth (05-04-2021), ThatOwlWoman (05-04-2021)
And yet we have 65% of the population who is Christian.
signalmankenneth (05-04-2021), ThatOwlWoman (05-04-2021)
American is certainly not a theocracy of any kind, although some zealots among us would have it as such.
The Evangelical American Taliban expresses and promotes theocratic views all the time.
As for 65% of Americans being Christians, I have no evidence to challenge that, but I don't really believe it.
That's a huge number of religious-superstition-afflicted/compromised people.
If it's true, however, it explains a lot.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
martin (05-09-2021), ThatOwlWoman (05-04-2021), Trumpet (05-05-2021)
'Christians' like to think that.
too many leftist idiots in it for that.....
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Nordberg (05-04-2021)
Truth Detector (05-11-2021)
I believe that Muslims, Jews, Buddhists are bewildered that a religion which includes Quakers, Pentecostals, Catholic, Unitarians could actually be considered a single unified religion - and there is even a question about whether some Christians are polytheisists not monotheists.
AProudLefty (05-04-2021), ThatOwlWoman (05-04-2021), Trumpet (05-05-2021)
The Trinity and the veneration of saints seems like polytheism to the other Abrahamic religions
Most world religions consider ritual and tradition just as important as core theological tenet. I have been to Quaker meeting, Methodist service, Russian Orthodox liturgy and they do not even look like the same religion.
Part of my ancestry goes back to the Puritans. When some adopted 'Quakerism', they were run out of New England. Which, just points out how fucked up they all are.
"For the Puritans, the “Lord’s Kingdom” did not include Quakers, and the Rev. Norton is known as the chief instigator of the persecution of Quakers in New England. He is quoted as saying, “I would carry fire in one hand and faggots in the other, to burn all the Quakers in the world.” The punishment for a Quaker to set foot in Massachusetts in 1660 was death by hanging."
https://historicipswich.org/2021/03/...-the-puritans/
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