Programmer In Training wrote:
On 1/10/2010 2:01 PM, RobertHoltzman wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 01:02:13PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
Yeah, it's a good thing atheist regimes never do purges of religious groups.
We know that's never happened.
Care to name one (just for my own education)?
How about the Soviets? Or the N. Koreans. Or the Chinese. Or the
Laotians. You can start your search here:
https://www.startpage.com/ (I'd provide a link to results but they don't
do arguments through the url).
Those regimes are opposed to religion because it weakens their hold on
the people. They are dictatorships that don't tolerate any other
influences. Got any others? You might also say that the U.S. is
officially an atheist state, as originally set up.
http://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html
"God
It has often been seen on the Internet that to find God in the
Constitution, all one has to do is read it, and see how often the
Framers used the words "God," or "Creator," "Jesus," or "Lord." Except
for one notable instance, however, none of these words ever appears in
the Constitution, neither the original nor in any of the Amendments. The
notable exception is found in the Signatory section, where the date is
written thusly: "Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven". The use of the word "Lord"
here is not a religious reference, however. This was a common way of
expressing the date, in both religious and secular contexts. This lack
of any these words does not mean that the Framers were not spiritual
people, any more than the use of the word Lord means that they were.
What this lack of these words is expositive of is not a love for or
disdain for religion, but the feeling that the new government should not
involve itself in matters of religion. In fact, the original
Constitution bars any religious test to hold any federal office in the
United States."
or http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050221/allen
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