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In reply to the discussion: How a Christian Fighter Pilot and FOX News Tried to Stop Fort Bragg Atheist Festival (And Failed) [View all]ieoeja
(9,748 posts)41. You do *not* want to go into the Capitol Rotunda in D.C.
The entire rotunda is copy of the Temple to Vesta (think: Vestal Virgins). For 150 years it held an enternal flame in the center.
There are 13 pagan gods protrayed in the artwork.
The ceiling is called the Apeothesis of Washington which means "Washington's elevation to Godhood" and protrays that very act.
Washington laid the cornerstone while dressed in full Masonic regalia.
Yes, you will find Moses the lawgiver. But he is just one of many such lawgivers protrayed from other religious and secular backgrounds.
Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli: "As the United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion...". Approved unanimously by the Senate as one of this fledgling nation's first treaties. Many of those Senators were Revolution War veterans, authors of the Constitution, etc.
The list goes on.
I have absolutely no idea where you got the idea that "our nation was founded on God." But you really need to re-think to whom you are listening on that subject. You have been led wildly astray from the truth. For one thing, had we been founded on God, we would have remained in the British Empire. Their King, after all, ruled by Divine Right.
God appoints Kings. People elect Presidents. Democracy by definition is a break from religion.
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How a Christian Fighter Pilot and FOX News Tried to Stop Fort Bragg Atheist Festival (And Failed) [View all]
Hissyspit
Mar 2012
OP
The Founding Fathers were Deists - look it up. "God" yes but not the Trinity
underpants
Mar 2012
#17
Hey GopperStopper2680 -- Take a look at these quotes from the founding fathers:
Arugula Latte
Mar 2012
#29
Thank you for these quotes. They will come in handy. I'm so sick of all the Christians bullying the
lib_wit_it
Mar 2012
#44
This is what happens when the Air Force Academy has allowed the evangelica ministers on to
southernyankeebelle
Mar 2012
#28