Typhoon1244
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Your're right, and I wish I hadn't.abenaki said:Typhoon, you were the one who brought your opinion into the fray about the State of the Union Address not being an appropriate forum for passionate references to faith in God...
I did say why. If you knew how to read as well as you knew how to pontificate, you'd realize that....of course, you didn't say WHY...and then you bailed out on answering any more comments about the one that you opened the door to.
So, I'll repeat myself. I don't like it when people use "God" to describe everything that our society doesn't understand yet. I don't like it when people wear their faith on their sleeve, as our president often does. I don't like it when people substitute religious faith for sound judgement (i.e. the Taliban). And I don't like it when people surrender responsibility for their lives to the "Almighty God."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the "Founding Fathers" also believe in everyone's right to choose what they believe and how they worship?This nation was founded by people with fervent Christian religious beliefs and the foundational principles upon which those people wrote the basis for our contry's government and its values are rooted in those beliefs and the founding fathers beliefs and faith in God.
The President represents ALL Americans...not just the ones who happen to be Christians. If he can't acknowledge everyone's faith in a speech, he shouldn't bering it up at all...
...just as I shouldn't have here.
...have been going on for three hundred years or more. Wait, don't tell me: you're one of those people who believe that "moral decay" is somehow new in America, right? There was no rape, drug use, child abuse, etc., while Leave it to Beaver was on the air, right?And frankly, the decay of family values, the moral degredation of the country, and many other maladies that afflict our society today...
What garbage!