Comments on: Bachmann, 43 others seek dismissal of lawsuit dubbed atheist ‘crusade’

By: A Greenhill

A Greenhill — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:12:36 +0000

My framed copy of the Declaration of Independence makes only one reference to “Nature’s god”… maybe that’s just my copy.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:41:33 +0000

If the word “God” causes that much offence in so many people I wonder what they will actually do when they stand before Him in person.
Weeping and Wailing and Gnashing of teeth is a pretty vivid description of that moment.

By: g darwin

g darwin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:46:34 +0000

no gods no devils no angels no demons no adam no eve no taking snakes{ exccept congress] no heaven no hell no virgin births no resurrected zombies no purgartory no limbo no holy water no holy books no winged horses carrying prophets no 72 virgins no animal crackers no blood wine no burning witches no torturing heretics…you are all crazy…yes to science and reason..

By: Ruth Walker

Ruth Walker — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:04:37 +0000

Those trying to stop the lawsuit want us to forget that the engraving is estimated to cost the taxpayers $150,000.

Those words have no place on a public building.

The Declaration of Independence in 1776 stated that NATURE’S god (rather than the god of Jews, Christians,and Muslims) gave men natural rights. It was well before the Bill of Rights, ratified in 1791, separated religion and our government.

Freedom of religion is important or it would not be in the Constitution! (Thomas Jefferson even cut the miracles out of the New Testament and George Washington didn’t take communion!)

By: Ray Melnik

Ray Melnik — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:17:12 +0000

Our nation is one of citizens. The imposition of certain group’s religious belief into our government was wrong and it should be removed. This is not a christian nation nor is it a theocracy. Not all citizens believe in their god and it only serves to pervert the Constitution and diminish the religion they seek to promote.

One nation, indivisible; with liberty and justice for all.

By: Reginald Selkirk

Reginald Selkirk — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:40:25 +0000

To answer my own question: Democrats End GOP Filibuster Against Controversial Court Nominee What great news, because it would be a shame to "waste judicial resources at a time in our Nation’s history when those resources are needed in cases involving real threats to American liberties.”

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:00:29 +0000

Lindle,

Help me out.

Define necessary components of a “religion”.
Explain how “secular, humanist” constitutes a religion within that definition.

I’m pretty sure that whatever definition you come up with that qualifies “secular, humanist” as a religion will also qualify “capitalism” as a religion. And almost anything else. But maybe you’ll prove me wrong.

By: Lindle

Lindle — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:02:58 +0000

Dear Mill,
The government long ago acceeded in the establishment of a state religion via compulsory, secular, “humanist” public education, always committed to changing the capitalist society of America to a socialist one, thanks to the tireless efforts, over 100 years, of the National Education Association (NEA) effectively abrogating the prohibition you cite.

By: Steve H

Steve H — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:53:15 +0000

I’m old enough to remember learning the Pledge of Allegiance *before* the words “under God” were added, in the middle of the McCarthyist hysteria, as a rebuke to ‘godless Russia.’ And now these people are going on about it as though George Washington wrote those words before, or maybe as, he crossed the Delaware. It only bolsters the old adage that “Those who ignore history are doomed to vote Republican.”

By: George

George — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:44:52 +0000

If they’re looking to “echo the statements found in the Declaration of Independence” they could always use statements that are actually found in the Declaration of Independence.