BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Saturday, August 28, 2010

U.S. was born a Christian nation ?

STORY HIGHLIGHTS


  • Robert Knight disputes ideas in opinion piece by Will Bunch about Glenn Beck, David Barton
  • Bunch rejected idea of U.S.' Christian roots, but there's evidence for it, Knight says
  •  Moses shown on some Supreme Court friezes; some founders wrote of Christian principles
  • Knight: U.S. unique in advancing individual rights because of its Christian ethic


U.S. was born a Christian nation - CNN.com: "In the Federalist Papers, No. 51, for example, James Madison wrote, 'But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary.'"

 
Knight's argument, that the U.S. was born a Christian nation, makes as much sense as intelligent design. Like believing masturbation a sin although nocturnal emissions corrects the difference.

Like a science research paper backwards, the conclusion is written first, followed only by selected evidence that appears to support a predetermined conclusion; showing reckless disregard for  any contradictory evidences.

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