Musafir's Musings

I love you dude, but you're crazy. The ADF-Taliban comparison is very reminiscent to the Bush-Hitler similarity. I guess if those terrorizing Bible thumpers are getting you all riled up, they must be doing something right!
 

There are some similarities, yes, but good that G.W. Bush is oratorically challenged. Adolf Hitler, the crazy dictator, was a great speaker.
 

I do think there is cause for alarm. This country was founded on the principle of religous freedom not as a religious state like Iran. ADF is advocating, not freedom of religion (including Islam, Buddhism, Wicka, etc...), they're simply pounding their narrow version of a particular religion. I find this very scary indeed if we as a nation are forced to believe one man-made verison of so-called Christianity.
 

The scare-language you've used is typical of someone who is ignorant of the facts and has been misled by the media's misguided portrayel of Christians. Our country was founded upon Christian principles - that's an undisputed fact. We live in a Christian nation that allows other religions to flourish within it - another fact. The separation of church and state was invented by a radical Supreme Court, had no precedent of any kind when enacted, and is seen as one of the worst judicial decisions of all time by liberal judicial scholars - still another fact.

The ADF is trying to defend laws that have already been in place for decades. They are not trying to create anything new - to say so is an absolute lie. The ADF fights to prevent the ACLU and other radical groups from changing our laws through the courts, instead of through the legislature, where our Constitution says laws were meant to be created and refined. The ACLU creates new law - the ADF defends existing law.

The ACLU has been slowly destroying the Christian heritage and freedom this country was founded upon. They do not try to hide this fact - their president has stated this view in their printed materials. Anyone saying that the ACLU is not attacking Christianity is someone who disgrees with the ACLU's own president.

Again, there are many more facts that get ignored by those, like yourself, who want to use name-calling and poorly-researched facts as a basis for your arguments. We can only hope that all of us would seek out the truth rather than settling for misinformation, lies, and name calling as the basis for our views.
 

The paragraph quoted below is from Thomas Jefferson's letter (final version) dated Jan 1,1802, to Danbury Baptists. Source: Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties."