Subj : Bush and the Separation of Church and State To : Rachel L. Akers From : Michael Gothreau Date : Thu Feb 08 2001 12:52 am Greetings to you, Rachel! On 08 Feb 01, Rachel L. Akers wrote to TODD HENSON... RL> Goddess _YOU_ again. >> From newsgroups: alt.religion.wicca.moderated RL> >... >> ... United States of America is not... founded on the Christian >> religion... Treaty with Tripoli, 1797, signed by President John >> Adams RL> >... TH> Take a look at the words of JOHN ADAMS: RL> I'm going to assume they are _President_ JA & not some other ijiot TH> ... Bible ... earlier my children begin to read it, the more TH> confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens TH> of their country and respectful members of society. RL> Lordie that's so ethnocentric. The implication that only X-ians could RL> be useful & respectable members of society. RL> > ... [irrelivant quotes chomped as their ID is not clarified to RL> > non-yanks] remember this _is_ an international echo. RL> >.. returning to x-post >> ... plain message ... is that George W. Bush's America is a >> Christian nation, and that non-Christians are welcome into the >> tent so long as they agree to accept their status as a tolerated >> minority rather than as fully equal citizens. ... TH> ... would be like me going to a Muslim country and expecting TH> them to kiss my behind and stop being a Muslim country. It's TH> asinine. RL> You do a great immitation of being an ignorant prat... There are RL> _other_ options. It's not a myopic either/or situation. AFAIC the RL> Duelist mode has caused more & bloody fighting than anything else on RL> this planet. & yes I'll admit Muslims are just as guilty as X-ians & RL> I'm sure other's will ID other situations... RL> Some examples of _other_ approaches include the "EVERYONE keep their RL> faith private" notion and, dare I suggest it, even a multicultural RL> "respect other religions" approach. This "accept lower status" is only RL> creating a pluralist cutlure where there are enclaves of cultures RL> struggling to live independant of others, a situation that will just RL> not work. A nation needs to work together _NOT_ isolate large sections RL> of it's community for the dualist attitude of "their not _us_"... Todd is a well known troll with penchant for cowardice. Ignore him. .... "Why?" - Todd Henson --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Point to Michael Gothreau (1:393/9005.35) .