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(")If any one comes to me

and

does not

hate

his own father

and

mother

and

wife

and

children

and

brothers

and

sisters,

yes,

and

even

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his own life,

he cannot be

my disciple. "

Luke 14:26

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Introduction

"The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine."

George Washington

"As the government of the United States of America

is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion ..."

from the Treaty of Tripoli

<https://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/secular.html>

signed by John Adams,

10.Jun.1797

"Believing with you that

religion is a matter

which lies solely between man and his God;

that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship;

that the legislative powers of the government reach actions only,

and 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

and

State."

Thomas Jefferson,

in his historic

Danbury letter

<https://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.jeffers.2.html>,

01.Jan.1802

"Who does not see

that the same authority

which can establish Christianity,

in exclusion of all other Religions,

may establish with the same ease

any particular sect of Christians,

in exclusion of all other Sects?"

James Madison, in

"Memorial and Remonstrance",

1785

"The number,

the industry,

and the morality of the priesthood,

and

the devotion of the people

have been manifestly increased

by

the total separation of church and state."

James Madison,

March 2, 1819

Neither a state nor the Federal Government can,

openly or secretly,

participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups

and vice versa.

In the words of Jefferson,

the clause against establishment of religion by law

was intended to erect 'a wall of separation between Church and State."

The U.S. Supreme Court, 1947

"They have kept us in submission

because they have talked about separation of church and state.

There is no such thing in the Constitution.

It's a lie of the left + we're not going to take it anymore."

Pat Robertson, adressing the ACLJ, 1993

"A Christian nation.

That is the phrase that drives the liberals mad.

That is the concept that infuriates them all.

It is infuriating because it is true.

Primary source documents will simply not allow humanists or atheists

to declare with any kind of intellectual integrity

that our Founding Fathers

were either unreligious or irreligious. "

From a

04.Jul.2001

article on the American Family Association's Website

"The national government ...

will maintain and defend the foundations

on which the power of our nation rests.

It will offer strong protection to Christianity

as the very basis of our collective morality."

Adolf Hitler

The Consistency of Biblical Morality - you shall not kill ?

You shall not kill.

Exod. 20 [13] and Deut. 5[17]

(the fifth commandment)

Lev. 20 [15]:

If a woman approaches any beast and lies with it,

you shall kill the woman and the beast;

they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.

Num 31[17]:

(...) Now therefore,

kill every male among the little ones,

and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

Deut 13 [6-9]:

"If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter,

or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly,

saying,

`Let us go and serve other gods,'

which neither you nor your fathers have known,

(....) but you shall kill him;

your hand shall be first against him to put him to death,

and afterwards the hand of all the people.

1 Sam 15[2-3]:

And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him,

and he went down to Ash'kelon and killed thirty men of the town (..).

Judg. 14[19]:

Thus says the LORD of hosts, `

„I will punish what Am'alek did to Israel in opposing them on the way,

when they came up out of Egypt.

Now go and smite Am'alek,

and utterly destroy all that they have;

do not spare them,

but kill both man and woman,

infant and suckling,

ox and sheep, camel and ass.“

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Slavery:

approved by the Bible

Lev. 25[44]:

As for your male and female slaves whom you may have:

you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are round about you.

God likes capitalism and hates communism ?

Acts.2 [44-45]:

And

all who believed

were together

and

had

all

things in common;

and

they sold

their

possessions

and

goods

and

distributed them

to

all,

as

any

had need.

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Religious Tolerance as practiced in the Bible

Deut.7 [1-5]:

"When the LORD your God

brings you into the land which you are entering

to take possession of it,

and

clears away many nations before you,

the Hittites, the Gir'gashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites + the Jeb'usites,

seven nations

greater and mightier than yourselves,

and

when

the LORD your God

gives them over to you,

and you defeat them;

then you must utterly destroy them;

you shall make no covenant with them,

and show no mercy to them.

You shall not make marriages with them,

giving your daughters to their sons or

taking their daughters for your sons.

For

they would turn away your sons from

following me,

to serve other gods;

then the anger of the LORD

would be kindled against you +

he would destroy you quickly.

But thus shall you deal with them:

you shall break down their altars +

dash in pieces their pillars +

hew down their Ashe'rim +

burn their graven images with fire.

Two Biblical Commandments that

Bible-Believing Christians

usually ignore :

"You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind;

you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed;

nor shall there come upon you

a garment of cloth

made of two kinds of stuff."

(Lev. 19[19])

"You shall not round off the hair on your temples or

mar the edges of your beard."

(Lev. 19[27])

"Abstinence" in the bible

2 Samuel 11[2-5]:

It happened, late one afternoon,

when David arose from his couch and

was walking upon the roof of the king's house,

that he saw from the roof a woman bathing;

and the woman was very beautiful.

And David sent and inquired about the woman.

And one said,

"Is not this Bathshe'ba,

the daughter of Eli'am,

the wife of Uri'ah the Hittite?"

So David sent messengers + took her;

and she came to him + he lay with her (...).

And the woman conceived;

and she sent and told David, "I am with a child."

<https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0922915555/>

If you want more information

on biblical pornography

and the sexual escapades of the holy men

whose lifes are supposedly moral examples

for the rest of us,

read :

The X-Rated Bible : An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures

<https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0922915555/>

Jesus and "family values"

Luke 14:26:

"If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes,

and even his own life,

he cannot be my disciple. "

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