Re: NBC Poll - Remove "In God We Trust" from currency?
1. It's not about whether the "religiously minded" are willing to make
concessions demanded by science and modernity. It's about their willingness to accept the notion that a talking serpent fooled a woman into eating an apple, and that's why woman have labor pains and snakes have no feet. Or the idea that a
human gave birth to the Creator of Infinite Existance. Or that if you die while killing unbelievers, you get to have unlimited virgin woman in heaven. These foolish fairytales beg belittlement.
2.a. The sentiment of these words is NOT what shaped America. The idea that man is born free and any government over people is by the people is what shaped this nation. The government's primary function is to protect those "natural freedoms" and let man build his life according to wishes without abridging his neighbor's freedoms. This is what helped build America's power.
2.b. Some of our forefathers probably thought that slavery was "awe ispriring". Should we reinstate the institution of slavery in deference to eighteenth-century worldviews?
2.c. Speaking of slavery, the idea that an all-loving, all moral, perfect diety would have me sell my own daughter into slavery (Exodus 21:7) also deserves belittling, if not repudiation and condemnations as an enormous lack of intellgence or moral perfection.
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