Olson Family Shorthorns said:
Does anyone know what "Separation of Church and State" means? Apparently not.
When religion was allowed in schools, black people were not. When American's "knew what was best for themselves", they owned other people.
Get a grip people. Nostalgia for a time that didn't exist is a dangerous state of mind. Why do you want to regress? We should all be striving to move forward, not turn back to bigotry and small mindedness. It's appalling to me that so many good people just want to bury their heads in the sand.
Edit: What is the point of this petition? What exactly is it that the petitioner wants to accomplish? All I read was a bunch of contradictions. First they wanted the government out of their lives, but then the government should be taking care of them.
Justin..................I am really busy and I don't have time for a history lesson. Second I never saw the original post, so PLEASE just say " I have no idea what I was thinking when I compared segregation to religion in schools." What is appalling to me is that so many good people, like you, have beliefs that are not based in fact.
You mentioned the "separation of church and state." I think there is a real chance that it is YOU who doesn't know what the separation of church and state means. Before you form an opinion on what Thomas Jefferson meant by that, there are questions you should ask. First, when he coined that phrase, to whom was he writing and what was the letter about? Was that the whole phrase? Where is it found in the Constitution? You'll find that you are using the same rationale as you do with the Bible. You take a sentence here and there and form an opinion and view from it.
You mentioned what would someone think that touted the same views but inserted Islam instead of Christianity. The average Americans perspective of political correctness is so influenced by liberal propaganda that it is easy to superimpose today's liberal concepts back on to the era of the founding of the country. Perhaps you should study what the founders thought of Islam. Perhaps you should read the letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to George Washington when he was the Sec of State and Ambassador to France concerning the religion of the Barbary Pirates, that days version of Muslim terrorists. Perhaps if you knew that over 2/3 of George Washington's total Federal Budgets were used to fight Muslim terrorism and then after some research you would see what the founders ideas were toward religions.
And as far as the guns are concerned, I got enough to hold off a couple of battalions and no one is ever going to get them so I'll protect you. You don't need any. If you're old enough to not blindly follow your parents beliefs you are old enough to reason your own beliefs on based facts. Don't take my word for it, do some research, go read the writings of the people who founded the nation and see for yourself instead of through the eyes of some academic. You know what I think of you and I don't care what your beliefs are. Just that when they are stated as fact, that indeed they are.