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What I am saying is: Name a value unique to Christianity that is also a unconditional value of the US.
I never use the word Alignment in the challenge because it isn't about alignment, it is about equivalency of values or principals.
The point is that there are almost none, so Christian nationalists who will tell you "The US was founded on Judeao-Christian values" or "The US exists to support the Christian religion" or various politicians who cater to Christian voters, are wrong and this challenge demonstrates that there are shockingly few (So far only one has been named) values on which the US was founded that are unique to Christianity.
Stars formed, planets coalesced, and on at least one of them life took root.
Through a long process of evolution this life developed into the human race.
Humans conquered fire, built complex societies and advanced technology .
All of that so we can argue about nothing.
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***** I would disagree that there is a false dichotomy here, because the way I word things there isn't an argument, I only ask a question and issue a challenge, which if completed would suffice to answer that question.
Yes I agree and the challenge as yet has not been met
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I am not making the claim that it is either Atheism or Christianity that is aligned with US values, although I suppose some people are trying to make this argument, which is exactly what I am trying to kill.
The reason I must ask about a unique value is because if someone states some value, for example, monogamous marriage as a founding US value which has been argued, they would have to prove that this did indeed come from Judeao-Christian origins, and if it came from elsewhere, for example the Sumerians and various other cultures we can not say it is truly a Christian value at all, but rather comes from another source.
There is a single solution to the challenge that has been brought up, and that is racial slavery, which evolved out of religious slavery in Europe and is uniquely Christian in origin. Everything else can be traced back to a non-Christian or non-Hebrew source.
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All of that so we can argue about nothing.
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To be candid your denial is futile. Evidence of Christianity is overwhelming in the Founding Fathers' various public speeches, letters, diary notes, etc. both on the public record and the Congressional record, which so frequently reference the relevance of God in honourable men entrusted with a duty of office. Below is the record of the very first Resolution, (passed unanimously) of the very first sitting of Congress at its inaugural opening in the history of the nation and which practise was adopted and is still practised today ....
In God We Trust
The phrase "in God We Trust" didn't first come into use in the 1950s. It has a long and illustrious tradition in history beginning in the early 19th Century, with the Founding Fathers commissioning craftsmen to display it on many public buildings long before it was put on the early coins in the same century. Here's the public record ...
The appearance of the phrase on coins has the following history:-
The Pledge of Allegiance Under God
You say that the Founding Fathers are not required to make the Pledge of Allegiance and had no role in its contrivance. That's true. The Pledge is designed for citizens only and is not designed for officials holding office, who take an Oath of Office instead, which covers a great deal more - pledging to uphold the Constitution, serve the nation and the people. I agree the phrase "Under God" was added to the Pledge in 1954, words taken directly from and a specific reference to President Lincoln's Gettysburg address, the last paragraph of which reads as follows ....
POTUS Oath of office
Who the hell do atheists think you are? You now want to control that too? The expression of making a very deep personal commitment to public duty has nothing to do with the powers of office. Sheesh. Pack up your Totalitarian dictatorial whining Marxism and swim to Cuba. George Washington began that tradition. He was the first to add "So help me God" to the Oath of Office. You can't get a better endorsement of the timelessness of those words than from the very first President. The whine of atheism is galling over every wee whiff of Christianity or mention of God. How dare we!! LOL! God is not the pox, you know. Prayer is not a contagion that it is going to snuff you out, so why do you get so tichy about it? Appalling intolerance is why. I can't comment on Military Oaths of Allegiance having never researched them.
Taking Oaths On The Bible
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There is no dispute that some of the Founders were religious. There should be no dispute that some rejected Christianity. However, the personal religious views or expressions of these view (even in a public setting) is irrelevant to the government that the founders actually set up.
The Constitution makes no mention of god or religion with exception to "no religious test". If the US government was to be based on Christianity, how do you explain this? Also, how do you explain the Treaty of Tripoli which explicitly states 'the United states government is not in any way based on the Christian religion'? [Paraphrased]. You have failed to address these objections.
I have no qualms with people being religious. What I do object to is people speaking with the weight of government to push their religious views. I, and others of all religions, give power to the government. If one religion receives priviledge then everyone who is not of that religion are having the power that they give to the government used against them. This functionally makes them lesser citizens than adherents of the religion being favored. Our founding fathers understood this and the evidence is plain that they sought to avoid it.
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Also just as clarifications, Unique in this context is based on historical originality rather than consistent exception. For example, many religions hold "Do not kill" so it is not unique, but if you could prove that the Hebrews were the first to adopt this law, and all subsequent cultures copied them, it would count as being unique. However if I show that for example, the Sumerians had this as a law prior to it being recorded in the bible (and by hundreds of years at that) then it is no longer unique.
Stars formed, planets coalesced, and on at least one of them life took root.
Through a long process of evolution this life developed into the human race.
Humans conquered fire, built complex societies and advanced technology .
All of that so we can argue about nothing.
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IDK if it is possible to say that America is a Christian nation currently, but I would say that the legal system and the rules and regulations that we impose on people is very much based on overall Christian ethics. I certainly agree that we need to have a moral code, but the problem with this is that my point of view is that morality and moral codes are very subjective. So I don't know how it's possible to hold the view of moral relativism and still enforce a moral code. So I'm currently stumped as to where to go from here intellectually.
"It is not strange...to mistake change for progress."-Millard Fillmore
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."-Ayn Rand
"To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable."-Barry Goldwater
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There can be no freedom of religion, unless there is also freedom from religion.
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Humans conquered fire, built complex societies and advanced technology .
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Can't anyone be Religious oriented, if they aren't infringing or interfering with your non Religious stance?
Why can't there be freedom from Religious Discrimination, or freedom from non Religious Segregation, from those individuals who continue to Segregationally, try to PRY Religion from their ways of life, if none of those same Religious oriented individuals aren't infringing on your freedom from religion stance?
And You are living your freedom from Religion stance, because you reiterate it over and over again, on the internet, your freedom from religion teachings, are non Religious Segregation teachings gold.
I've learned more from how you utilize your keyboard or your keypad, from how you press into the Internet Public, through the works of your own mind, via your below words:
"There can be no freedom of religion, unless there is also freedom from religion."
When I've gone into a Religious building, those freedom from religion individuals are welcome to come into the Religious building if they want to or not.
Because if the non Religious individuals don't make the attempt to enter inside of any Religious building, guess what?
Your freedom from religion is still intact isn't it?
And your freedom from religion isn't being infringed on, discriminated against either, is it?
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