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FourScore (7,476 posts)
Ten True Facts Guaranteed to Short-Circuit Republican Brains
Tue Sep 04, 2012 at 12:32 PM PDT
Ten True Facts Guaranteed to Short-Circuit Republican Brains
by Richard Riis
As a public service to those who find themselves inextricably cornered by aggressively ill-informed Republicans at work, on the train or at family gatherings, presented here are ten indisputably true facts that will seriously challenge a Republican’s worldview and probably blow a brain cell or two. At the very least, any one of these GOP-busters should stun and confuse them long enough for you to slip quietly away from a pointless debate and allow you to get on about your business.
1. The United States is not a Christian nation, and the Bible is not the cornerstone of our law.
Don’t take my word for it. Let these Founding Fathers speak for themselves:
John Adams: “The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.†(Treaty of Tripoli, 1797)
Thomas Jefferson: “Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.†(Letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814)
James Madison: “The civil government … functions with complete success … by the total separation of the Church from the State.†(Writings, 8:432, 1819)
George Washington: “If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.†(Letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789)
You can find a multitude of similar quotes from these men and most others who signed the Declaration of Independence and/or formulated the United States Constitution. These are hardly the words of men who believed that America should be a Christian nation governed by the Bible, as a disturbingly growing number of Republicans like to claim.
2. The Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist.
The Pledge was written in 1892 for public school celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the Americas. Its author was Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister, Christian socialist and cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy. Christian socialism maintains, among other ideas, that capitalism is idolatrous and rooted in greed, and the underlying cause of much of the world’s social inequity. Definitely more “Occupy Wall Street†than “Grand Old Party†by anyone’s standard.
3. The first president to propose national health insurance was a Republican.
He was also a trust-busting, pro-labor, Nobel Peace Prize-winning environmentalist. Is there any wonder why Theodore Roosevelt, who first proposed a system of national health insurance during his unsuccessful Progressive Party campaign to retake the White House from William Howard Taft in 1912, gets scarce mention at Republican National Conventions these days?
4. Ronald Reagan once signed a bill legalizing abortion.
The Ronald Reagan Republicans worship today is more myth than reality. Reagan was a conservative for sure, but also a practical politician who understood the necessities of compromise. In the spring of 1967, four months into his first term as governor of California, Ronald Reagan signed a bill that, among its other provisions, legalized abortion for the vaguely-defined “well being†of the mother. Reagan may have been personally pro-life, but in this instance he was willing to compromise in order to achieve other ends he considered more important. That he claimed later to regret signing the bill doesn’t change the fact that he did. As Casey Stengel liked to say, “You could look it up.â€
5. Reagan raised federal taxes eleven times.
Okay, Ronald Reagan cut tax rates more than any other president – with a big asterisk. Sure, the top rate was reduced from 70% in 1980 all the way down to 28% in 1988, but while Republicans typically point to Reagan’s tax-cutting as the right approach to improving the economy, Reagan himself realized the resulting national debt from his revenue slashing was untenable, so he quietly raised other taxes on income – primarily Social Security and payroll taxes - no less than eleven times. Most of Reagan’s highly publicized tax cuts went to the usual Republican handout-takers in the top income brackets, while his stealth tax increases had their biggest impact on the middle class. These increases were well hidden inside such innocuous-sounding packages as the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987. Leave it to a seasoned actor to pull off such a masterful charade.
6. Roe v. Wade was a bipartisan ruling made by a predominantly Republican-appointed Supreme Court.
Technically, Roe v. Wade did not make abortion legal in the United States; the Supreme Court’s decision held only that individual states could not make abortion illegal. That being said, the landmark 1973 ruling that Republicans love to hate, was decided on a 7-2 vote that broke down like this:
Majority (for Roe): Chief Justice Warren Burger (conservative, appointed by Nixon), William O. Douglas (liberal, appointed by FDR), William J. Brennan (liberal, appointed by Eisenhower), Potter Stewart (moderate, appointed by Eisenhower), Thurgood Marshall (liberal, appointed by LBJ), Harry Blackmun (author of the majority opinion and a conservative who eventually turned liberal, appointed by Nixon), Lewis Powell (moderate, appointed by Nixon). Summary: 2 conservatives, 3 liberals, 2 moderates.
Dissenting (for Wade): Byron White (generally liberal/sometimes conservative, appointed by JFK), William Rehnquist (conservative, appointed by Nixon). Summary: 1 liberal, 1 conservative.
By ideological orientation, the decision was for Roe all the way: conservatives 2-1, liberals 3-1, moderates 2-0; by party of presidential appointment it was Republicans 5-1, Democrats 2-1. No one can rightly say that this was a leftist court forcing its liberal beliefs on America.
7. The Federal Reserve System was a Republican invention.
Republicans, and, truth be told, many Democrats, despise the Federal Reserve as an example of government interference in the free market. But hold everything: The Federal Reserve System was the brainchild of financial expert and Senate Republican leader Nelson Aldrich, grandfather of future Republican governor and vice president Nelson Rockefeller. Aldrich set up two commissions: one to study the American monetary system in depth and the other, headed by Aldrich himself, to study the European central banking systems. Aldrich went to Europe opposed to centralized banking, but after viewing Germany's monetary system he came away believing that a centralized bank was better than the government-issued bond system that he had previously supported. The Federal Reserve Act, developed around Senator Aldrich’s recommendations and - adding insult to injury in the minds of today’s Republicans - based on a European model, was signed into law in 1913.
8. The Environmental Protection Agency was, too.
The United States Environment Protection Agency, arch-enemy of polluters in particular and government regulation haters in general, was created by President Richard Nixon. In his 1970 State of the Union Address, Nixon proclaimed the new decade a period of environmental transformation. Shortly thereafter he presented Congress an unprecedented 37-point message on the environment, requesting billions for the improvement of water treatment facilities, asking for national air quality standards and stringent guidelines to lower motor vehicle emissions, and launching federally-funded research to reduce automobile pollution. Nixon also ordered a clean-up of air- and water-polluting federal facilities, sought legislation to end the dumping of wastes into the Great Lakes, proposed a tax on lead additives in gasoline, and approved a National Contingency Plan for the treatment of petroleum spills. In July 1970 Nixon declared his intention to establish the Environmental Protection Agency, and that December the EPA opened for business. Hard to believe, but if it hadn’t been for Watergate, we might remember Richard Nixon today as the “environmental presidentâ€.
Oh, yes - Republicans might enjoy knowing Nixon was an advocate of national health insurance, too.
9. Obama has increased government spending less than any president in at least a generation.
Republican campaign strategists may lie, but the numbers don’t. Government spending, when adjusted for inflation, has increased during his administration (to date) by 1.4%. Under George W. Bush, the increases were 7.3% (first term) and 8.1% (second term). Bill Clinton, in his two terms, comes in at 3.2% and 3.9%. George H. W. Bush increased government spending by 5.4%, while Ronald Reagan added 8.7% and 4.9% in his two terms.
Not only does Obama turn out to be the most thrifty president in recent memory, but the evidence shows that Republican administrations consistently increased government spending significantly more than any Democratic administration. Go figure.
10. President Obama was not only born in the United States, his roots run deeper in American history than most people know.
The argument that Barack Obama was born anywhere but at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, is not worth addressing; the evidence is indisputable by any rational human being. But not even irrational “birthers†can dispute Obama’s well-documented family tree on his mother’s side. By way of his Dunham lineage, President Obama has at least 11 direct ancestors who took up arms and fought for American independence in the Revolutionary War and two others cited as patriots by the Daughters of the American Revolution for furnishing supplies to the colonial army. This star-spangled heritage makes Obama eligible to join the Sons of the American Revolution, and his daughters the Daughters of the American Revolution. Not bad for someone 56% of Republicans still believe is a foreigner.
Okay, feel free to drop any or all of these ten true facts on your local Republican windbag. Tell him or her to put any of these choice nuggets in his or her teabag and steep it. Then sit back and enjoy the silence.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/04/1127663/-Ten-True-Facts-Guaranteed-to-Short-Circuit-Republican-Brains
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021275178
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1. The United States is not a Christian nation, and the Bible is not the cornerstone of our law.
Is that supposed be a major revelation? We all know that. We also know that Christianity had a huge impact on the founding of this country.
2. The Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist.
Then why does that pledge offend you guys so much?
Ohh that's right the whole pride in country thing.
3. The first president to propose national health insurance was a Republican.
A progressive republican. Theodore Roosevelt may as well have been a modern democrat.
4. Ronald Reagan once signed a bill legalizing abortion.
He made a mistake and even said that he regretted it.
If 0bama can evolve on his positions so could Reagan.
5. Reagan raised federal taxes eleven times.
He messed up and tweaked the tax cuts only to have the democrats screw him. Tax rates were still lower by the end of his second term though.
6. Roe v. Wade was a bipartisan ruling made by a predominantly Republican-appointed Supreme Court.
Yeah and a republican appointee screwed us on 0bamacare too.
7. The Federal Reserve System was a Republican invention.
So they screwed up as it turns out. Once again we evolved.
8. The Environmental Protection Agency was, too.
I'm convinced Nixon would be a democrat if he were alive today.
9. Obama has increased government spending less than any president in at least a generation.
If he gets another term and the dems take congress he will change that. He is just itching to spend more.
10. President Obama was not only born in the United States, his roots run deeper in American history than most people know.
he was still raised by communists and has shown no love for this country. He may have been born here, but he is not an American.
Yep they shut me right up. :rotf:
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As for President Ronald Reagan, he admitted that he wasn't perfect.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZMafGzDJdo[/youtube]
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Nope...still ain't short circuited....I got a quart of white lightning. Do you suppose if I drank it, it would short circuit my brain?
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021275178
5. Reagan raised federal taxes eleven times.
He messed up and tweaked the tax cuts only to have the democrats screw him. Tax rates were still lower by the end of his second term though.
9. Obama has increased government spending less than any president in at least a generation.
If he gets another term and the dems take congress he will change that. He is just itching to spend more.
5. Reagan cut taxes across the board AND TAX REVENUES DOUBLED. How did that happen DUmmies? Maybe a growing economy creates jobs, which increases the total number of taxpayers, or as he stated "A rising tide lifts all boats".
9. Are you counting FY 2009 for GWB again? Even though it was shown to be largely O spending that money? If GWB was such a spendthrift, how is it that his deficits were, on average, one third the size of O's? If GWB was such a spendthrift, how could it be that O has increased the national debt in 4 years $6T, while GWB increased it by $4T in 8? And on those inflation adjusted numbers, all these last 4 years, you've been telling us that there was no inflation. Were you lying then, or now?
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5. Reagan cut taxes across the board AND TAX REVENUES DOUBLED. How did that happen DUmmies? Maybe a growing economy creates jobs, which increases the total number of taxpayers, or as he stated "A rising tide lifts all boats".
9. Are you counting FY 2009 for GWB again? Even though it was shown to be largely O spending that money? If GWB was such a spendthrift, how is it that his deficits were, on average, one third the size of O's? If GWB was such a spendthrift, how could it be that O has increased the national debt in 4 years $6T, while GWB increased it by $4T in 8? And on those inflation adjusted numbers, all these last 4 years, you've been telling us that there was no inflation. Were you lying then, or now?
9. Obama has increased government spending less than any president in at least a generation.
If he gets another term and the dems take congress he will change that. He is just itching to spend more.
I think that spending BS is just BS. It's based on percentages of increases, not actual dollars spent. When it comes to dollars spent, Obama reigns supreme.
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In 1923, the words, "the Flag of the United States of America" were added. At this time it read:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
In 1954, in response to the Communist threat of the times, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words "under God," creating the 31-word pledge we say today. Bellamy's daughter objected to this alteration. Today it reads:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
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Whag the Founding Fathers wanted (and got) was a civil form of government without bringing one's faith.into it. We all know this. They lived through theocracies where the State dictated what you believed. The Founders were, by and large, mostly Christian or Deist. They believed in "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and render unto GOD what is GOD's".
It takes true Christians to know, love, and accept all of those who don't believe the same as you. That's part of the reason for the first amendment.
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So the DUmmie is saying that the Republicans had a few good ideas over the years, like the EPA, that the Democrats simply abused the shit out of with over regulation?
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45 things that proves today's democrat party is in fact the communist party.
The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals
http://rense.com/general32/americ.htm
I've sent this to poke leftist people I know right in the eye with a sharp stick.
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So the DUmmie is saying that the Republicans had a few good ideas over the years, like the EPA, that the Democrats simply abused the shit out of with over regulation?
Yep. The EPA was a good thing at first. Clean air and water are good for people. It was when the Greenies got to them and turned the EPA left that it turned into a group of raving lunatics.
As for some other facts, like the Roe v. Wade thing, I'm sure the original court would be horrified at the result of their decision. How could they have foreseen millions of dead infants every year; and leftists demanding that tax payers be forced to pay for those murders, pharmacists be forced to hand out medications that would cause children to die, partial birth abortion, the "kinder" abortion where full-term and near-full-term infants are killed by injection of a muscle contracting drug that causes the heart to literally tear itself up...and the election of a president that voted AGAINST a measure that would have forced abortionists to give life support to born-alive infants.
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Yep. The EPA was a good thing at first. Clean air and water are good for people. It was when the Greenies got to them and turned the EPA left that it turned into a group of raving lunatics.
As for some other facts, like the Roe v. Wade thing, I'm sure the original court would be horrified at the result of their decision. How could they have foreseen millions of dead infants every year; and leftists demanding that tax payers be forced to pay for those murders, pharmacists be forced to hand out medications that would cause children to die, partial birth abortion, the "kinder" abortion where full-term and near-full-term infants are killed by injection of a muscle contracting drug that causes the heart to literally tear itself up...and the election of a president that voted AGAINST a measure that would have forced abortionists to give life support to born-alive infants.
Thus is the slippery slope and why the totalitarian leftists want to put just a little bit of gun control, sensible gun control.
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I read the list, and my brain is still functioning. Next.
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So the DUmmie is saying that the Republicans had a few good ideas over the years, like the EPA, that the Democrats simply abused the shit out of with over regulation?
As originally conceived, the EPA was a good idea. What it has morphed into, after being taken over by Radical Leftist/Statist Progressives, is something completely different.
And yes (D)Ullards, Nixon was a liberal.
Quote from: MrsSmith on Today at 04:20:56 pm
Yep. The EPA was a good thing at first. Clean air and water are good for people. It was when the Greenies got to them and turned the EPA left that it turned into a group of raving lunatics.
As for some other facts, like the Roe v. Wade thing, I'm sure the original court would be horrified at the result of their decision. How could they have foreseen millions of dead infants every year; and leftists demanding that tax payers be forced to pay for those murders, pharmacists be forced to hand out medications that would cause children to die, partial birth abortion, the "kinder" abortion where full-term and near-full-term infants are killed by injection of a muscle contracting drug that causes the heart to literally tear itself up...and the election of a president that voted AGAINST a measure that would have forced abortionists to give life support to born-alive infants.
There. I should have read that first! :-)
I believe they would be mortified.
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As originally conceived, the EPA was a good idea. What it has morphed into, after being taken over by Radical Leftist/Statist Progressives, is something completely different.
And yes (D)Ullards, Nixon was a liberal.
There. I should have read that first! :-)
I believe they would be mortified.
The bolded part is why government needs to be smaller. If you give them an inch, they'll take a mile.
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DUmmy said;
4. Ronald Reagan once signed a bill legalizing abortion.
The Ronald Reagan Republicans worship today is more myth than reality. Reagan was a conservative for sure, but also a practical politician who understood the necessities of compromise. In the spring of 1967, four months into his first term as governor of California, Ronald Reagan signed a bill that, among its other provisions, legalized abortion for the vaguely-defined “well being†of the mother. Reagan may have been personally pro-life, but in this instance he was willing to compromise in order to achieve other ends he considered more important. That he claimed later to regret signing the bill doesn’t change the fact that he did. As Casey Stengel liked to say, “You could look it up.â€
In his heart, Reagan agreed with Cardinal McIntyre, not Dr. Davis, and he really wanted to veto the Therapeutic Abortion Act. Instead, he subordinated his personal feelings to the commitment he had made to Republican legislators to sign the bill. He wasn't happy about it. "Those were awful weeks," Reagan told me a year later. He added that he would never have signed the bill if he had been more experienced as governor, the only time as governor or President that Reagan acknowledged a mistake on major legislation.
http://archive.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/adamantly_pro_choice_ronald_reagan_and_abortion_in_1967
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959005/posts
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And yes (D)Ullards, Nixon was a liberal.
That's the irony of this list. They're expecting us to become testy over things republicans did, yet they would gladly claim liberals were the ones who did these things.
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And yes (D)Ullards, Nixon was a liberal.
The opponents he defeated were Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern.
By comparison, in both of his winning elections, he was the conservative.
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The only fact the Republicans need:
Romney/Ryan will win. Odds are we'll keep the house and pick up seats in the senate (may even be able to take it). The day they get into office the economy will start to improve. There's so much pent up frustration and desire to move forward, just knowing the uncertainty is going away will be a huge catalyst. It's a thing of beauty that the Republicans are considered more trustworthy when it comes to the economy. The left blew their wad on an arrogant, inexperienced jackass with a chip on his shoulder, in spite of the fact that he had a rather privileged upbringing.
It's going to be the domestic equivalent of the Iranians releasing the hostages when they learned Reagan won.
On the bright side, the oceans will probably start to rise, so they'll still have that issue.
Cindie
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Sigh...
Next you'll be telling my how everybody is better off than they were four years ago, right ?
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The only fact the Republicans need:
Romney/Ryan will win. Odds are we'll keep the house and pick up seats in the senate (may even be able to take it). The day they get into office the economy will start to improve. There's so much pent up frustration and desire to move forward, just knowing the uncertainty is going away will be a huge catalyst. It's a thing of beauty that the Republicans are considered more trustworthy when it comes to the economy. The left blew their wad on an arrogant, inexperienced jackass with a chip on his shoulder, in spite of the fact that he had a rather privileged upbringing.
It's going to be the domestic equivalent of the Iranians releasing the hostages when they learned Reagan won.
On the bright side, the oceans will probably start to rise, so they'll still have that issue.
Cindie
I think the economy will start to improve significantly shortly after the election, no need to wait until January.
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The only fact the Republicans need:
Romney/Ryan will win. Odds are we'll keep the house and pick up seats in the senate (may even be able to take it). The day they get into office the economy will start to improve. There's so much pent up frustration and desire to move forward, just knowing the uncertainty is going away will be a huge catalyst. It's a thing of beauty that the Republicans are considered more trustworthy when it comes to the economy. The left blew their wad on an arrogant, inexperienced jackass with a chip on his shoulder, in spite of the fact that he had a rather privileged upbringing.
It's going to be the domestic equivalent of the Iranians releasing the hostages when they learned Reagan won.
On the bright side, the oceans will probably start to rise, so they'll still have that issue.
Cindie
Yes the oceans will rise, the DUmmy tears will be flowing on each coast and all that water has to go somewhere.
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The bolded part is why government needs to be smaller. If you give them an inch, they'll take a mile.
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Every time.
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The opponents he defeated were Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern.
By comparison, in both of his winning elections, he was the conservative.
By comparison, only. I don't think even Nixon could have forseen what the EPA has transformed into.
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've learned over the years that when a DUmmy "guarentees" something will make us mad...confuse us..."short circuit" out brains...it doesn't.
This post from the DUmp doesn't fail to deliver.
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No need to modify fact with true. When it is, I get suspicious.
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Want to short circuit my brain?........tell me......
1- Government is shrinking.
2- Welfare has been discontinued.
3- The foodstamp program has been discontinued.
4- Government housing has been sold to individuals and no more gov. subsidies.
5- WIC vouchers are voided.
6- School systems will ruled by local communities.
7- Vast numbers of now useless government employees are laid off....without pay.
8- Congress has to also abide by the laws they pass.
9- ....ADD YOUR OWN....
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Want to short circuit my brain?........tell me......
1- Government is shrinking.
2- Welfare has been discontinued.
3- The foodstamp program has been discontinued.
4- Government housing has been sold to individuals and no more gov. subsidies.
5- WIC vouchers are voided.
6- School systems will ruled by local communities.
7- Vast numbers of now useless government employees are laid off....without pay.
8- Congress has to also abide by the laws they pass.
9- ....ADD YOUR OWN....
9. The Second Amendment applies to fully automatic weapons, and does not allow for waiting periods to be able to exercise such right.
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6- School systems will ruled by local communities.
If there was only one to pick, that would be mine. But I would add: No Federal dollars. No Federal interference, whatsoever.
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Thus is the slippery slope and why the totalitarian leftists want to put just a little bit of gun control, sensible gun control.
Unfortunately for us in this campaign it is not just the leftists that want more gun control.
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FourScore (7,476 posts)
Ten True Facts Guaranteed to Short-Circuit Republican Brains
1. The United States is not a Christian nation, and the Bible is not the cornerstone of our law.
You really need to stop falling asleep in history class.
In colonial Virginia you were required by law to attend/tithe to the Church of England. If you did not do this you were brought up in front of the court to give a good reason why you failed to do this and possibly receive a punishment. COE was the state religion. You could attend a Baptist church for example, only after appearing before the court and getting their permission. but you still had to tithe to the COE.
Our founders, being the smart guys that they were, decided that we should be able to attend the church that we wanted, or not attend at all for that matter. So because of that we now have the freedom of religion that the constitution guarantees us.
Our founders were indeed religious men and used the 10 commandments to help them draft our constitution.
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You really need to stop falling asleep in history class.
In colonial Virginia you were required by law to attend/tithe to the Church of England. If you did not do this you were brought up in front of the court to give a good reason why you failed to do this and possibly receive a punishment. COE was the state religion. You could attend a Baptist church for example, only after appearing before the court and getting their permission. but you still had to tithe to the COE.
Our founders, being the smart guys that they were, decided that we should be able to attend the church that we wanted, or not attend at all for that matter. So because of that we now have the freedom of religion that the constitution guarantees us.
Our founders were indeed religious men and used the 10 commandments to help them draft our constitution.
And there's also that nasty little fact that many of the states had what was in essence a "state supported" religion. As states were given freedom we haven't known in a century (hence the term "Representative Republic") the feds were adamant of not forcing a standard "belief" (or lack thereof) on them. Autonomy of family, neighborhood, community, town, county, state was of the utmost importance (and in that order). They didn't not believe in God...that whole, inconvenient "endowed by our creator" thing...they just held freedom OF religion to be of utmost importance.
Cindie
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You know, you really have to wonder about a piece titled "Ten True Facts..." Seriously, can there be Ten UNtrue facts? A fact is true, or it isn't a fact. But I suppose most DUmmies don't understand that. :lmao:
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On Number 6, there actually wasn't a majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, there was a plurality, a concurrence based on different reasoning, and a dissent.
On Numbers 9 and 10, those are not actually facts, number 9 is one of those things that can be said without blowing up a polygraph because in one narrow technical accounting sense it can be arguably true, even though it's really complete bullshit looked at holistically, while number 10 is a claim that assumes its won truth, which does not make it a proven fact.
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Point 1 is fundamentally wrong, and it is because the leftists love to extrapolate new meaning from genuine facts to match their agenda.
The foundation of the United States is based on basic biblical law, though it is also true that after The Constitution was adopted, there would be no required or recognized state religion.
This is where the primitives keep coming up with Potato.
Following principles based on religious ideals is not the same as recognizing and requiring and participation in any specific religion.