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    Default Latest outrage from the "Culture Wars"

    TheoCons freak out about a Hindu chaplain giving a routine invocation in the United States Senate. I heard on the radio that some Bush republicans (aka, christian theocrats) in the Senate chamber tried to shout down the Hindu chaplain.

    Here's the statement from the American Taliban...ummm, I mean the prominent relgious right organization, AFA:

    "In Hindu, you have not one God, but many, many, many, many, many gods," [David Barton] explains. "And certainly that was never in the minds of those who did the Constitution, did the Declaration [of Independence] when they talked about Creator -- that's not one that fits here because we don't know which creator we're talking about within the Hindu religion."
    Hmm...

    "But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

    -- Thomas Jefferson, 1782

    http://www.americablog.com/2007/07/b...say-hindu.html
    Last edited by Cypress; 07-13-2007 at 10:48 AM.

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    I notice you cut off the first part of that quote there Cypress.

    I'll provide it.

    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." – Thomas Jefferson (1781)

    It doesn't take away from the point, but it adds to the power of the quote itself.
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
    - -- Aristotle

    Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
    - -- The Buddha

    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
    - -- Aristotle

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    fine Christian bunch acting just like jesus did
    Bush doubled the debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion.
    Proving tax cuts work!

    Bush asked for and signed for the TARP money.
    The Republican senate leader backed Bush on this.

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