Originally Posted by Ringman
Jeff_O,

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An intelligent person might want to know that, yes. A religious person might attribute it to God, based on faith in their doctrine...

None of this really matters much to me other than as an interesting debate; folks believe what they believe and that's fine by me. Where it does really matter to me is when the practicers of religion try to bring it into the public policy realm. That chaps my ass.


In case you didn't notice this country was founded on Christian principals. Read some US history in a book before the revisionists change the facts. It has deteriorated to what we see to day.


Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli [June 10, 1797]: "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..."


Guns don't kill people, drivers with cell phones kill people.