We are a Christian Nation!

[Admin]

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It's scary to know that our Christians believe this crap. And even scarier that the Christians make up the vast majority of America's population. How does saying we are a Christian nation make us any better than the radical Muslim clerics whom we fight? It doesn't.

America is indeed a Christian dominated society. "One Nation Under God", "God Bless America", "God Bless the Troops", "In God we Trust". The signs of Christianity are all around us. But just look at the parallels between us and the Islamofascists:

Christians claim that we are a Christian nation, and attack all groups non-Christian, such as gays, atheists, muslims, etc. The Muslims claim that Sharia (Islamic law) should govern the land, and target groups such as women, Jews, Buddhists, etc.

We send our men into battle with such warcries as "for god and country" and "God bless America". The Muslims say "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great), before going into battle. God is great and God and country both give the same message.

Both sides claim that the other is evil because of it's beliefs and the attrocities they've commited, but both have created horrible, even 'evil' acts in the name of their beliefs, and therefore in my oppinion, neither Christians or Muslims are better.

[ixthusdan]

Can you prove your notion that belief is equivalent to fascist socialism? I have difficulty grasping the concept that belief necessarily falls into a political ideology. If anything, Christianity in the Untied States would fall into freedom and liberty, hardly socialist values.
Islam as a faith is not oriented toward personal liberty in any way. I find your post rather confused.

[bbqsandwich]

admin said:

web.archive.org/web/20051001063230/reandev.com/taliban/

It's scary to know that our Christians believe this crap. And even scarier that the Christians make up the vast majority of America's population. How does saying we are a Christian nation make us any better than the radical Muslim clerics whom we fight? It doesn't.

Let's pretend that there is a huge disconnect between Western civilization and Christianity in terms of roots and influences.

Let's pretend, for a moment, that it's just a random attribute of our culture, with no positive effects.

Let's go a step further and pretend that all Christians (or even any Christians) want to achieve worldwide control over culture and media, and desire nothing more than to enslave the nonbelievers.

Now, hypothetically accepting all of those as given, is Christianity the equivalent to Islam? Even if all that stuff that isn't even remotely true were true, what's left to separate Christianity from Islam?

Oh yeah, it's the culture-of-rage suicide-bomber thing. SiIlly me, I almost forgot about that.

[voltage]

I believe that Atheists and Scientologists are the same!

Oh. Teh satire thread is over there.

[Paragon]

The "Christian Ideals" on which America was founded are really pretty universal. Christianity isn't the only religion or belief to call murder bad, for example.

[Admin]

Murder is bad has nothing to do with religion...

[Paragon]

admin said:

Murder is bad has nothing to do with religion...

It does when Christians claim America was founded largely on the ten commandments.

[radioear]

Well, this thread stated out severely bias but The United States, started out as a Christian nation. Today, a person would be hard pressed, I think, to call the US a Christian nation. Just look at the kind of elected officials the people put in office for starters.

[lushar]

Just because the 100 or so Christians on that site have been quoted saying anti-gay, racist, anti-athiest statements doesnt mean that the other 150 million or so Christians believe the exact same way. These people whove been quoted are fundamentalist and misguided Christians.
I have yet to see a quote from a moderate Christian on that site...

[Paragon]

What...?