tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14338594.post9003984130410220340..comments2024-03-05T09:42:44.066-08:00Comments on Rational Rant: The Self-Blinded Leading the Sightedsbhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05074136019151416282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14338594.post-65985521369174250192010-12-15T02:52:20.755-08:002010-12-15T02:52:20.755-08:00No, the person quoted did not say that "Chris...No, the person quoted did not say that "Christianity played no part in" American society; what he said (quite correctly) was that US law was not "based on the Bible and the Ten Commandments." Piling together a bunch of irrelevant quotations that happen to mention Christianity or the Bible does nothing to counter this; it merely displays the author's abysmal ignorance, especially when she's obviously picked them up from other people rather than her own reading. (If she'd done her own research she wouldn't have copied other peoples' idiotic errors in attribution, the 1956 "religionists" quotation assigned to Patrick Henry being a particularly egregious example.) If you follow my links you can read these selections in their original context from the authors' own works, or in the case of the fakes you can read my debunking of them.sbhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05074136019151416282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14338594.post-3791841390691609142010-12-14T23:31:15.682-08:002010-12-14T23:31:15.682-08:00I looked at the strange piece you refer to and did...I looked at the strange piece you refer to and did not find the author to exactly be incensed. Whoever she was referring to at the beginning of the article said that this country was formed as a secular society as if Christianity played no part in it. I guess that is what she was thinking about when she responded. After all, it was national Bible week or something (never heard of it). For some reason, more and more people believe our country started out as a Christian society. I don't know if the quotes she is using are true or not, but if they are, she's making a case of some kind because the founders sure seemed to talk about the Bible a lot in regard to this country and its citizens. They're all relevant in showing the high regard the founders had for the Bible but If they aren't true, then I imagine she's fooling some people and that has to be stopped.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com