[Vision2020] Pat Condell -- Muslims must reject jihad

[Paul Rumelhart]

By the way, "In God We Trust" is the our national motto, as signed into law by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.  If people out there want "In God We Trust" removed from their currency, they should lobby for a change to our national motto.  Personally, I like "E Pluribus Unum" better (From Many Into One), because that supports actual unity instead of the divisiveness that is tearing this country apart.

Paul




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 From: Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com>
To: Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> 
Cc: vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Pat Condell -- Muslims must reject jihad
 


On 5/29/2013 1:26 PM, Ted Moffett wrote:

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:
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>To the extent they wish to foist ideas lacking evidence for their existence or truth onto the public square and body politic, they are better advised that their delusions may be perceived as mental illness contagious to others, and therefore quarantined from public display and exposure.
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>A quarantine from public display and exposure of "delusions" regarding religion is quite impossible, if including all media accessible to the public as public display and exposure.  See Direct TV list of religious channels at bottom. <[snipped]>
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Thanks for the reminder.  I don't subscribe to cable TV, so the
    channel guide is not in my scope of attention.  I think it is the
    case that there is in the USA a growing recognition of non-theistic
    and agnostic perspectives, and that they have substantive value in
    spite of aspersions and pejoratives from those who disagree with, or
    are afraid of, or simply cannot understand, their import.  That
    said, yes, there is a substantial and continual barrage of
    detrimental, anti-independent-thought rhetoric emerging from a
    variety of organizations claiming religious purposes and privileges.


Of course state or government expression of religion can be restricted, in government schools, et. al.  But the dollar bill says "In God We Trust" and the pledge of allegiance in public government schools, spoken by millions of children, still declares, despite court challenges, "One nation under God."  
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Those bills also read Federal Reserve Note, but that is another
    facet of the power and control discussion.


I regard this as state sponsored promotion of a specific religious viewpoint, monotheism, that lacks sufficient scientific evidence for the belief in such a "God" to be rationally defended.  Call it a delusion if you wish... But if it is, it means a majority of people in the US are delusional, to some extent.
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Unfortunately true.


Ken

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