Just a short post, I read this tidbit in "30 Seconds" today:
Air America, the Democratic radio station, is going to begin airing an hour program a day on atheism. Apparently with Democrats "In God We Trust" is not your motto. And what's with the number one hypocrite in the country, Hillary Clinton, using 9-11 footage in her campaign ad? After all, it was this hypocrite that criticized George Bush for using 9-11 ads in his campaign. Certainly Hillary should use it. After all Bill Clinton was responsible. For the four and a half years while it was being thought out by bin Laden, Bill and Hillary did nothing to stop it. So, yeah, I guess Hillary is connected to 9-11 in a bigger way than you Democrats would like her to be. Thank you.Of course, I felt compelled to respond. Unfortunately, due to the 700 character limit for submissions, I was only only able to actually address the first part of the post. Here's my response:
Bloomsburg man
10.16 Bloom man, simply because a radio station airs a program does not mean every democrat is an atheist, that’s a hasty generalization – a logical fallacy. “In God We Trust,” which became the motto in ’56 due to xenophobic McCarthyism, should be considered a violation of the Establishment clause and an insult to the Framers, who originally used the phrase, “E Pluribus Unum.” The ’56 phrase did not appear on money until after the Civil War. The patriotic stance is to support the Constitution and condemn the ’56 phrase. Were Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison alive today, they would not be viable candidates because of their religious beliefs.The radio station, Air America, recently added Freethought Radio to their line-up. Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, from the Freedom From Religious Foundation (FFRF), created the show. This is the same organization that was involved in Hein v. FFRF. I applaud them for their tireless defense of the Establishment Clause as well as their efforts to spread accurate information about atheism to the public (we aren't baby-eating monsters, some of us aren't anyway).
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And of course the killer argument against the "In God We Trust" mentality is that the framers of the Constitution went out of their way not to include any references to a supernatural being in their document. The country was established, at least by implication, as a non-Christian nation.
The Treaty of Tripoli doesn't help the Christian Reconstructionist stance too much either. Then again, the majority haven't read the Constitution, they just assume it mentions their "god."
Well, the Treaty of Tripoli is nice for us atheists, but it's easily dismissible by the Christians as mere words to facilitate bargaining -- which is, obviously, how they see treaties.
The Constitution, on the other hand, is our most important document. It defines the country. And the word "Christian" was purposefully omitted.
I wouldn't knock the Treaty since it was read before the entire Congress prior to it being ratified by Adams. There's a great article on the history behind the Treaty of Tripoli and the misinformation that Christians typically use to dismiss it over at Talk to Action. I'll have to see if I can't dig it up and post a link.
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