This may stir things up a bit.

[deb_in_nc]

I saw this on The Early Show this morning on CBS.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/ ... 1367.shtml

Click on video to the right of the screen.

Debbie

[Stephanie]

I couldn't get the video to play but this country was based on the freedom to practice all religions. That is also why there is a separation of church and state in our laws.

[deb_in_nc]

It also deals with the belief that all the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Christians.
I was supposedly taken from researching their letters.

I had a little trouble too.When the Real 1 trouble window came up I clicked more info. Ended up the video came up anyway.

Debbie

[j]

I got about half way through the video and got tired of the Dershowitz babble, then went back because my curiosity got the best of me.

The bottom line.....many people believe in God, are Christains, but do not believe everything that is written in the Bible. I fall into that category myself.

Iteresting video though, and some interesting revelations about Jefferson, that I never knew.

[Stephanie]

I'm sure that they were - but they were wise to not let it dictate the country. They've already seen how it effected England, etc.

[streetsoldier]

Once again, the Constitution was so designed to protect the churches FROM the states, NOT the other way around...freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM it.

And, again, there is NO clause even mentioning "separation of church and state"; this phrase was taken from a private letter to Baptist church leaders in Maryland (then predominantly Catholic) written by President Thomas Jefferson, reassuring them that Maryland, or for that matter any state or Federal body, will not and CANNOT establish a state religion such as we still see in Europe.

And, for the benefit of the massed posters, Christianity in this sense is NOT a "religion" as such; the term was understood to mean any of the hundreds, if not thousands of DENOMINATIONS thereof.

A thorough revisit to a copy of the Constitution, the minutes of the Constitutional Convention, and/or re-reading the "Federalist Papers" should open your collective eyes in this regard.

Informed people make better voters....go then, see for yourselves, and then act on what you have rediscovered.