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    Default America Is Not A Christian Country

    And yet we have 65% of the population who is Christian.

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    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

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    'Christians' like to think that.

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    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.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    And yet we have 65% of the population who is Christian.
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    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.
    Either there is Jesus and God as Creator or not. Pretty simple.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Either there is Jesus and God as Creator or not. Pretty simple.
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    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.
    They all seem the same to me. They're all very boring.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    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.
    They all think Jesus, the Man-God, is REAL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    They all think Jesus, the Man-God, is REAL.
    Too complex for Cypress. He thinks the clothes people wear are the profound differences.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    They all seem the same to me. They're all very boring.
    Like other Religions, they want to impose THEIR religion on you and your children.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Like other Religions, they want to impose THEIR religion on you and your children.
    Absolutely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Too complex for Cypress. He thinks the clothes people wear are the profound differences.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    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/

    Religion has mainly been a burden on societies. The opiate of the masses.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    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.
    Christianity is a composite religion that includes snake handlers to those who believe angels are ancient aliens. Plato's inability to create a state religion is what caused him to go mad.

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