What should America's State Religion Be?

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The part about Henry VIII could have been what maco was thinking about. Now, and I'm not Catholic so tell me if I'm wrong with this, but how I understand it, if you want to get divorced in the Catholic church, you have to get it annulled and then make it as though you were never really married at all.
Now, if this is correct, that means that you agree to a lie. Unless I missed something.
 
Perhaps if you pray to the Flag he will help you in teaching all foreigners to pay respect to America.

But it is often said that the US HAD to go to war because if the Nazis conquered Europe, they would have come for the US next. So really, you should be grateful for the sacrifices of Europeans, or you would be speaking German right now.
 
Our Founding Fathers started every session of the Constitutional Convention with a CHRISTIAN prayer. Washington went to a CHRISTIAN church every Sunday, religiously. He was, however, careful not to push his religion on others and was tolerant of all religions.
 
:rolleyes: Hey, if you don't believe in the Bible just say so. There is no use trying to show you otherwise.

As for your question about adultery, it is illegal to commit adultery in some states I thought...so yeah, i would support a state law saying something to the effect of "if you commit adultery, the marriage can be voided" and have some kind of penalty dealing with the spilting of the property or something.
 
This is all confusing to me. Isn't the question written what religion was America founded on? Then the poll is what should be our state religion. Two totally different questions.
 
No, that isn't correct. The typical annullment process is based on the belief that the marriage lacked necessary elements right from the get-go. Here's a brief explanaition that I found.


As you can see, it doesn't require you to lie about your marriage, only to recognize that it was a flawed relationship. That isn't a lie. If it was then why would you be getting divorced in the first place? Sort of a Catch-22.
 
"None" does not fit logically in the category of "other"...especially in a poll where the results are displayed in a bar graph. A casual view of the results would mislead the viewer to conclude most respondants (so far) want a state religion when the majority of the "other" votes could be clarified in the posts to mean they think there should be none.

Not only did you exclude "none" and several existing demonations from your list of choices, you implied that the reluctance to concede to atheist's and ACLU demanRAB that we remove all vestiges of religion from public places constitutes the establishment of a state religion.

There is no state religion here in the US...and that's all there is to it.
 
Recently I've heard lots of comments from those of a christian persuasion that the United States of America is founded on christian principles.

That made me wonder just which christian principles they were talking about, considering the wide variety of self-identified christians.

So I thought that I might ask the good christian folk of 4Forums whose brand of Christianity was the American brand.

I voted Quaker.
 
VoR's own worRAB, "I am a man of faith, but not a devout one". He has admitted that he has made a decision not to follow ALL the precepts he speaks about, yet he can piously label others as "so called Catholics" because they might disagree with his selected ones. There is a word for that - hypocrite.
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What religion? Hmmm... When asked what religion I belong to I always write "Christian". I don't like it, but it always takes so long to explain things to dummies. That about covers it, though.

Besides, religion is about like chitterlings (chittlins for all you Sons of the South); you gotta "cook" the chit out of it before you can digest it.
 
that's a pretty easy question to answer.
Most of our laws are based on the Ten Commandments, for starters.
The belief that we were all created "free" and endowed by our Creator with the right to life liberty and prosperity.
The belief that all men are equal in the eyes of God.
How's that for a starting point?
 
Odd.

Tens of millions of Europeans died on the battlefielRAB of WWI aganist forces that would strip the world of freedom, yet VOR does not count their sacrifices. Their deaths ground the Kaiser German machine down to the point where we could litterally walk in, and smack them around. We took less then 10% of the total Allied European casulities yet VOR cannot even bring himself to even acknowledge that.

Then again Tens of millions of Europeans perished in the second world war. Fighting for years before we even entered the war. Their sacrifices bought us time. How many casulities did we take in Europe? Again less then 10% of the European allied, and that's not even including Russia who, by the way destroyed over 10 times the amount of German divisions the Europeans destroyed. Russia ALONE took 50 million casuliaties. Yet again VOR cannot even bring himself to even acknowledge that.

That's SHAMEFUL.
 
No, a now deceased aunt who liked to change husbanRAB had the art of paid forgiveness down to an art. The key was equal amounts to the parish and to the diocese for Rome's cut to gain that necessary approval. My last exposure to the power of money in Catholicism was catching my grandfather's well-lubricated priest discussing my expired grandfather's assets with my grandmother (during the wake) and suggesting an amount 'guaranteed' to get him prayed out of purgatory.
 
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