Interresting facts about Canadian religion

41% Catholic
20% other Christian religions
20% aetheist

20,000 Jedi Knights
 
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first and foremost, "In God We Trust" has become a tradition, same a celebrating birthdays (ya, i know not every one does) or saying hello and goodbye (or whathave you) this isnt something we need to change, hell i dont read my money, do you? every time you pull out a $20 bill to pay for gas do you read it? do you even pay attention to anything other than the numbers? i dont, i just look at the number or the face and go " hmm. . .yup this is a twenty" i mean realy is it neccesary to create such a hastle over s little bit of writing on your money that no one even looks at? and the pledge, i never even said it when i went to school, hell i never even stood up, i just sat in my desk and tried to make the most noise doodleing, but thats just because i dont believe in pledging allegaince to a country i have almost zero support for. dont like the pledge? dont say it, when the teacher says you have to, give them a blank look, always worked great for me, after awhile the teacher just stoped asking.

and what is laws but limiting the freedoms of others? thats why i dont like laws, i put up with them as long as they parralel my beliefs enough im not breaking the law going into a knife shop.

to be continued. . .
 
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Formaly the Perpetual PFC
TRP/FTC/SGT Sniping101/CrazyRAIDERS/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][IH][BoA]
"As long as their is Space, Im going to stare off into it"-Garfield
I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my spout. When I see an ARC all short and stout, BOOM!  He flies through the hall and out. -anonymous

    Several people have already brought up the fact that it was NOT... In fact made up by the founding fathers...  Or atleast this is what I've been told.  Something about adding because of Communist or something.  That seem's like a real rumor to me, but since theres more than one person saying it, I'll sure as hell beleive it...
 
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    Intriguing how we're saying that we need seperation of religion and state...  But yet, we swear our presidents in using the bible.  Do you wish to further this my good man?
 
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So far since I made my last post there really hasn't been too much said that disagrees with the point I was trying to make.

There are so few polythiests and aethiests comparied to monothiestic believers that they can make plenty of noise but really all they are doing is taking seperation of church and state too literaly.

Yes what we believe in will shape the laws of our country.

Yes it is impossible to please everyone.

I'd leave the money but change the pledge back to it's original form.


 
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Kuroishi Wraith VEA
Daishi Raptor VEN
Assistant Writer Why Project Copyright Infringment
Ich bin hessliche amerikaner.
Nehmen mir zu dein frauen von vernunftig preis tugendhafte.
"And the sound of many heads hitting many solid objects was heard throughout the land." me

or dont mes with the pleadge sence this is the one everybody can remember and people who dont like it can just not say it, i dont say it not for that reason but because i dont want to swear allegiance to this country, but not saying it is perfectly acceptable. realy i dont care if it was changed, i wouldnt even vote on it (if i could vote anyway)
 
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Formaly the Perpetual PFC
TRP/FTC/SGT Sniping101/CrazyRAIDERS/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][IH][BoA]
"As long as their is Space, Im going to stare off into it"-Garfield
I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my spout. When I see an ARC all short and stout, BOOM!  He flies through the hall and out. -anonymous

*Shrugs*

no, not realy.
 
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The Comnet Hermit
TRP/FTC/SGT Sniping101/CrazyRAIDERS/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][IH][BoA]
"As long as their is Space, Im going to stare off into it"-Garfield
I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my spout. When I see an ARC all short and stout, BOOM!  He flies through the hall and out. -anonymous

Any takers?  This is turning into less of a debate lately...  We should realy delete this entire thing... 
 
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Yeah, I'm with Munk, I think it's good to have someplace where we can engage in a free interchange of ideas (amazingly enough, this hasn't degenerated into a slugging match in 8 pages  ).

Anyways, I'm gonna state my position as a traditionalist here on the issue.  The swearing in on the bible is important, but only for a Christian president.  If the president was Jewish, Muslim, or Hindu, you'd swear him in on the Torah, the Qur'an, or the Vedas.  It's just a way of having him swear in on something he truly believes in.  Me?  I'd probably swear in on something by Richard Bach or Daniel Quinn...

Anyways, that would also explain my stance on the money/pledge issue.  The pledge was never originally made with the "under God" phrase in it, therefore I think it should be restored.  The money has always been printed with "In God We Trust" ever since real greenbacks started coming out, so I have no real problem with it.

Also, it's a good thing to note that only about half of the founding fathers were actually Christian, and mostly the less prominent ones.  The more noticable ones like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were what they called "humanists".  They believed that God had created us, but that it was up to us to figure our way around this life.

Anyways, that's my two cents for this time, enjoy 
 
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IW COL Argon Viper{ret}
Fallen Angel and Proud of It!
"History is on the move, those who cannot keep up will watch from a distance, and those who get in our way will not watch at all" - Grand Admiral Thrawn
"Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses" - Carl G Jung

dont delete the thread, just lock it, i personaly did about the same as Shazam, except i was the one gettin ticked, but more often the one doing the annoying, i've cooled down alot and will stop if anyone i start to go into the slugfest frenzy i was getting into last time wich was like page 2
 
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The Comnet Hermit
TRP/FTC/SGT Sniping101/CrazyRAIDERS/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][IH][BoA]
"As long as their is Space, Im going to stare off into it"-Garfield
I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my spout. When I see an ARC all short and stout, BOOM!  He flies through the hall and out. -anonymous

Ya...no sense shutting down the debate

Some good discussions have been had on here and we should let them continue
 
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Actually, we'd better stop saying that or he'll do something about it, lol.
 
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Woah, woah, wait a minute! I just realized that Argon AGREED with me! AAAAH! Satan is throwing snowballs!
 
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." -Albert Einstien

"People like you are the reason people like me take medication." -Cool T-shirt

FL/PO2 Chipmunk Man/Kaph 3-1/Phoenix/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)[LoC][MC:1]

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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." -Albert Einstien

"People like you are the reason people like me take medication." -Cool T-shirt

FL/PO2 Chipmunk Man/Kaph 3-1/Phoenix/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)[LoC][MC:1]

Well...  You know, there are worse things...  Like referring to yourself as Lt. Commander of a Navy division on the internet...


*Checks number

Odd!  Dammit.  I really wanted that german shepard, the neighbor kids are getting a bit out of hand...
 
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