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Originally Posted by orangeatheist
And while this is true, what meaning does it have today? Medical books at the time made references to blood-letting, too, but that is not something relevant to today.
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The implication being, of course, that we're too smart to believe in God anymore, right? Well over 90% of America would heartily disagree with that stance.
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Originally Posted by orangeatheist
I have always failed to understand why we should revere everything penned or thought by people centuries ago. Certainly, a great deal of what the Founding Fathers wrote into the Constitution is valid and appropriate for our civilization today. But not everything.
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Of course. All that pesky God stuff that you personally don't like must be totally irrelevant to everyone because you personally find it useless. I'll be going through the Contitution and the Bill of rights with
my list of things we ought to be rid of and everyone should abide by that. What did those guys who wrote the thing way the heck back in the 1770's know? Since they lived in a different century, that makes their views just a bit on the dim side.
Right?
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It's not like Yahweh or Allah or Ahura Mazda (who whomever the Founding Fathers were referencing using the generic term "God") is drawing some paycheck from the taxpayers.
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I'm sure those Protestants from Europe were all referencing Allah or Vishnu when they wrote the Contstitution and the DOI. Makes perfect sense.
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Originally Posted by orangeatheist
Frankly, I don't care what (for all practical purposes) a bunch of scientifically naive people wrote down 2 or 300 years ago when they decided to found a country.
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Right! Since they were "scientifically naive" (they didn't prescribe to the science is god religion), everything they had to say with any relation to God in it must be tossed right into the hopper. These guys were religious, so let's not listen to the stuff they had to say, including "All men are created equal." Uh oh! There's the word "created" in there! That's a reference to God! Out with it!
Out, I say!