Folks, we need a MAJOR effort to counter this article

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Written by one of the "darlings" of the RR to refute once and for all that the US is NOT a Christian nation.

I hope some of you will head to this article, and add your two cents. We NEED to prove these slimeballs are NOT doing the best for this country with their idiocy.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/28/knight.beck.bunch/?hpt=T2

I would love it if people kept this visible on the board so that the barrage of the truth to this idiot continued long and heavy over the next few days. Thank you for your support.

(CNN) -- Will Bunch's CNN.com tirade earlier this week against television host Glenn Beck and David Barton -- the founder and president of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that emphasizes history's "moral, religious and constitutional heritage" -- for allegedly creating "pseudo history" reveals more about Mr. Bunch than it does about what Mr. Beck and Mr. Barton are presenting.

Mr. Bunch seems, above all, to be annoyed that many people are no longer staying on the liberal plantation of secularized American history. He offers little in the way of examples of error, just differences of opinion, such as his own assertion about "the much-debunked idea that America's creation was rooted in Christianity."

Much debunked? That would have been news to many of the Founding Fathers, whose biblical understanding of man as created in the image of God informed their insistence in the Declaration of Independence that people have "unalienable rights" to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This was tempered by the biblically informed idea that man is prone to sin. In the Federalist Papers, No. 51, for example, James Madison wrote, "But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

Therefore, any government formed by men needs checks and balances to avoid tyranny. On a more elementary level, the signers of the Declaration and the Constitution were mostly Christian. You can look it up.

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1. We're a country of Christians.

We're not a "Christian country" in that the Bible was placed above the Constitution. The purpose of our Constitution was not to support, promote, and defend Christianity.


Of course, government historically has been mixed with and in cahoots with religion; religion and government often supported each other for mutual benefit. You had to be a certain religion to hold political office, governments passed and enforced scripture-based laws, etc. It did take us a while to separate ourselves from this process. So the fact that Christianity and early US governments were strongly tied together was not surprising at all.

[LAGC]

2. Yeah, I saw that too, thought about posting.

Sure is amazing the coverage CNN gives to the Religious Reich.