Bronski
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
That John Stewart thing cracks me up (or at least the way it's being summed up here). When some one tries to remind the American public that our nation was shaped by Christians the response is, "Uh, no. Those founding fathers were Deists." But when it comes time to complain about the prevalence of Christian influence in politics, it suddenly becomes, "All our presidents were Christian and we're tired of it." |
The Jon Stewart quote wasn't to say we're tired of Christian presidents, but that we're tired of Christians pretending they're persecuted in the U.S. when nearly everyone in power is Christian.
Whether or not our founding fathers were Christians is irrelevant to the fact that the constitution proscribes a separation of church and state, not only to protect the non-believers, polytheists, etc, but to protect the religious from the state. |
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