07-01-2015, 11:25 AM
(06-30-2015, 06:31 PM)WhoDeyWho Wrote: It insinuates that there was once a time in our country's history where we were somehow more moral. As a black man, I have no desire to ever go back to those times.
As a white man I agree. Hell, as a Martian I would agree. But, shameful as those times were they weren't shameful because "we were a Christian nation." America has always had freedom of religion and freedom from religion. Many Christian people, in their infinite irrationality, simply refuse to accept this. But over the years they have refused to accept many facts. The earth is not flat, but Christians denied this. The earth revolves around the sun, but Christians denied this. The US was not chartered as a Christian nation, but that is denied as well. Denying facts: a Christian tradition like no other.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
