And when thou pray, thou shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou pray, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret…
[Matthew 6:6 & 7]
On July 13th, 2007, our country took a pitfall into the black hole of indecency.
It is a common misconception that our country was founded under Christian values. It is an even more common misconception that our country was founded under god.
The Constitution never once mentions a deity, because the Founding Fathers wanted to keep their new country “religion-neutral.” Our Founding Fathers were an eclectic collection of Atheists, Deists, Christians, Freemasons and Agnostics.
George Washington and John Adams stated in the 1796 Treaty of Tripoli: “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion.”
George Washington rarely attended church and instead followed a popular 18th century philosophy called Deism—a Star Wars-esque philosophy that believed in a cosmic energy or big-ass universal “Force.” The dictionary says that Deism is “a system of thought advocating natural religion based on human reason rather than revelation,” that had nothing to do with Christian principles.
James Madison, original mastermind of our Constitution, was an Atheist to the core who loved skewering Christianity. In 1785 he wrote, “What have been [Christianity’s] fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.”
For some bizarre reason, Christians around the country seem to think that this country — my country — is somehow historically intertwined with their religion. For some reason, Christians seem to think that God and Jesus allowed for the creation of America, and for some reason, they feel that we should consider converting the population.
America is not a Christian nation. Period. Our Constitution derived from the post-Christian Enlightenment values of reason and truth…never from the paranoid yammerings of that otherwise compassionate cult leader who died in the Middle Eastern desert 2007 years ago.
The funny part was, these so-called Christians are not Christians at all. They’ve manipulated the writings of a truly genius man (Jesus) into some kind of mandate for violence and crusades. Jesus wanted Christians to spread his teachings, not his cult. Jesus wanted Christians to teach others the Bible, not to shove it down their throats. Jesus wanted Christians to read the Bible and live its lessons, not live its actions. Jesus was a teacher, not a warmonger.
Where have traditional Christian values gone? What is so convincing the evangelical population of this country that so many lives — in the American Revolution — were spent on their religion? It is sickening.
Oh, but it gets worse. Nobody seems to understand, even in the Senate, that their needs to be a separation between church and state. Apparently, the people in the Senate don’t understand their own damn constitution.
To the point. On July 13th, 2007, the first Hindu prayer was given at the start of a Senate session. Three fanatical Christians yelled out at the Chaplin, screaming mockeries of their own religion.
We’ve achieved the point of absolute BS, in my opinion. We have prayers in our state, and now we have people arguing over the prayers! When are we going to relize that the CHURCH and the STATE need to remain as two entities, not one?
WIkinews cite: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Christian_protesters_try_to_disrupt_first_Hindu_prayer_in_US_Senate
