On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:42 PM, morgan l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is a Judeo-Christian term, how can you say it isn't? > > Easy, it isn't. Judeo-Christian's don't have the sole use of the term. In > context, it was a Deist term, which most Christians I know scoff at, and > accuse them of not being Christian (of course, they're right, but the > scoffing part is uncalled for)
Thomas Jefferson was Christian. > That "Biblical morality" is just morality that happens to appear in the > Bible. So what. That doesn't make it Biblical by any means. Most of that > "morality" existed long before any hint at Judeo-Christian beliefs. So religion is just someone writing down the obvious? Well we're basing it on those writinigs. > Plagiarism is a good word for it, but not actually what I meant. I simply > meant that it pre-dated the Bible, and most other "modern" religious books > by a multitude of years, hundreds, perhaps even thousands. These ideas > popped up all over the world, in almost every religion, despite the lack of > easy world travel. It's not plagiarism, it's common sense. Almost every > growing culture of the time developed many of these same values--don't > steal, don't kill....it was a means of survival. I don't agree. Take three of the big cultures: Egyptian, Greek and Roman. > If the Founding Fathers intended to place Biblical values and morals into > our Constitution, then adultery would be illegal in the Constitution. That's > a pretty big Biblical value to leave out, if that was the intent. I maintain You can't take a random excluded item and use it to make a point. > that it was not their intent, that their intent was to give us liberty, and > to stay out of the religious beliefs of the masses completely. Religious > beliefs of political leaders should not sway their votes against the > Liberties offered by the Constitution, even if--especially if, they > conflict. The sole guidance of our political leaders should be to ensure the > Liberties of the People. I agree ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:262276 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
