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Capt Gregory Prickett Some Amazing Ancient Story Telling! When Telling a Good Sea Story All Sailors Know You have to Jazz It Up a Bit!
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Capt Gregory Prickett
Probably, but Mata isn't doing a comedy routine, his background is teaching. This is more of a Bible study.
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I try not to run someone's religion down even though I don't believe what they do.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
SFC Melvin Brandenburg - see Andrew L. Seidel, "The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American" Sterling (2019, Kindle ed.).
One of the first law passed in 1789 covered the administration of oaths. The original bill had “in the presence of Almighty GOD” and “So help me God.” Id., at 33. Both were deleted from the bill that was enacted. Id.
Second, in 1984, Donald Lutz looked at the documents of the time of ratification. Federalists, those in favor of ratification did not quote the Bible even once. Anti-federalists cited the Bible 33 times out of 528 writings, always in opposition to ratification. Id. at 116-17.
Third, the anti-federalists claimed that "general disregard of religion" made it unacceptable (Oct. 1787), that America was cursed under 1 Sam. 15:23 (Jan. 1788), Presbyterians complained in 1789 about the lack of reference to the true God and Jesus, and so on. It wasn't until the 1920s or so that the fundamentalist Christians started revising history to make the ludicrous claims that America was established on Christian values. All of this is documented.
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One of the first law passed in 1789 covered the administration of oaths. The original bill had “in the presence of Almighty GOD” and “So help me God.” Id., at 33. Both were deleted from the bill that was enacted. Id.
Second, in 1984, Donald Lutz looked at the documents of the time of ratification. Federalists, those in favor of ratification did not quote the Bible even once. Anti-federalists cited the Bible 33 times out of 528 writings, always in opposition to ratification. Id. at 116-17.
Third, the anti-federalists claimed that "general disregard of religion" made it unacceptable (Oct. 1787), that America was cursed under 1 Sam. 15:23 (Jan. 1788), Presbyterians complained in 1789 about the lack of reference to the true God and Jesus, and so on. It wasn't until the 1920s or so that the fundamentalist Christians started revising history to make the ludicrous claims that America was established on Christian values. All of this is documented.
Do you want me to go on?
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SFC Melvin Brandenburg
Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers
No book was more accessible or familiar to the American Founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political d...
Capt Gregory Prickett - I give you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2YY0gs9tKU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cidvf4h-Nb8 To say the founding of our nation was intended to be a theocracy is incorrect. To say our form of government was to be entirely humanistic and therefore relativistic to the standards of the day is equally incorrect. To say that our government was established as a secular organization bounded by the concepts of justice and liberty, necessarily influenced by valor and biblical morality would be correct. The ultimate strength of the Constitution is that public life isn't to be devoid of expression of faith, but that public life isn't to compel expression of faith.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
SFC Melvin Brandenburg - Why not look at the words of one of the Founders, our second president? "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion...."
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