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- From: "DRCV06::GRAHAM" <GRAHAM%DRCV06.decnet@DRCVAX.AF.MIL>
- Subject: The United States is NOT a Christian nation.
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- I guess it is time to make this point again, let me see if I can do so in a
- more comprehensible manner than I have done in the past.
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- While I have zero respect for Mr. Ankerberh, [spelling?] I was interested
- in the quotes from Franklin. It is rather interesting for a man whose life
- repudiated any and all Christian principles to call for prayer, I wonder if
- he even knew what it was, not to mention the God to whom it should have
- been directed.
-
- The real point, though, is this: There cannot be any such thing as a
- Christian nation. There most certainly can be a nation of Christians, but
- a nation cannot be Christian, Buddhist, Moslem or any other religion.
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- I don't care what your personal values are, you cannot rule a nation as a
- Christian nation, the result will be a fundamentalist dictatorship. For a
- wonderful example of what happens when Christians try to run things "their
- way," see both the Puritans in Colonial America and, even better, Calvin in
- Geneva. Geneva was run as a Christian city, or was it? People all agreed
- with the Ten Commandments, with the police standing over them to insure
- cooperation. In Puritan New England, you could spend half a day in the
- public stocks for splitting wood on Sunday. We don't need such trash
- burdening down our society, it has far too much trash in it already.
-
- Stop trying to Christianize the nation, or any nation. Christians are
- individuals, not nations.
-
- Dan Graham
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