This sparked me off today:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8468981.stm

Gun parts that are being used by UK/US forces in current conflicts have bible verse/chapter insciptions along things such as gun butts etc.

Quote:

Coded references to biblical passages are inscribed on gunsights widely used by the US and British military in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has emerged.

The markings include “2COR4:6″ and “JN8:12″, relating to verses in the books of Corinthians II and John.

Trijicon, the US-based manufacturer, was founded by a devout Christian, and says it runs to “Biblical standards”.

We believe that America is great when its people are good. This goodness has been based on biblical standards throughout our history and we will strive to follow those morals

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I suppose with reflection it actually is quite fitting that a company that makes tools for the mass slaughter of people should be proud to serve their country as “one nation, under God”. Especially as Christianity and indeed religion as a whole is responsible for countless millions of deaths over the course of history, justified by nothing more than a belief and faith in something with no actual evidence. It’s ok to go out there and kill anyone for your cause kiddies, just as long as the imaginary friend in your own head tells you and all your friends it’s ok to do so.

Where is this fierce connection with Christianity being the founding and guiding moral encompassing everything “good” in the USA? It seems to me utterly misguided and one giant facility to be able to excuse any action or reaction in the name of a made up diety. Such reliancy on imaginary friends in one’s head can, to me, only be explained and detailed by the way of a mental illness which just encourages closed mindedness and blind “faith” in ideals that are massively outdated and archaeic.

The whole “one nation under god” in the Pledge of Alliegance was never even there before February 12, 1948… Lincoln’s birthday, suggested and later included as a change by a retard going by the name of Louis A. Bowman.

There is no mention of God in the US constitution: “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union….” The omission of God in the Constitution did not come out of forgetfulness, but rather out of the Founding Fathers purposeful intentions to keep government separate from religion.

The decleration of independance does mention god, however, it was aimed at a future government designed and upheld by people and not based on a superstitious god or religious monarchy. It observed that all men “are created equal” meaning that we all get born with the abilities of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That “to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.” Note that the Declaration says nothing about our rights secured by Christianity and indeed, why should it? It’s purely a document explaining the situation with the rebelious nature towards separating the people of the newly formed USA with England.

The “Treaty of peace and friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli, of Barbary,” referred to as simply the Treaty of Tripoli is important too. In Article 11, it states: “As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”

It seems many Christians in America today have forgotten their own history, both religious and national. In 2009 Baptists will celebrate their 400th anniversary. In the 17th and 18th centuries Baptists, heavily persecuted by colonial theocracies, led the way in embracing a pluralistic society and insisting upon full religious liberty and separation of church and state. Irony? If only they understood it…

Baptists’ perseverance in the face of religious and state persecution led to the founding of America as the world’s first secular nation, including the adoption of separation of church and state in the First Amendment. England was so mortified, when the new nation left God out of its Constitution, that some English leaders accused America of being an atheist nation.

Why did Baptists (and some other Christian groups) insist that America be founded as a secular nation? I reckon they realised that true religion is voluntary, not coerced. This fundamental belief is as true today as it was hundreds of years ago. Christians of the late 18th century clearly understood that the USA was founded as a secular nation although clearly not all were happy about the matter; some wished for a theocracy distributing bibles to the people and continuing to collect taxes for churches until the 19th century. Why?

The normal reasons of course, a loss of a grip on power and the detestful nature of forcing beleif onto others as a way of some sort of emotional and moral favour. Clinging to the historical myth of America as a Christian nation is historical dishonesty, as well as a slap in the face of their spiritual forefathers.

Basically, just a massive bunch of controlling, delluded and defiant pricks ladies and gentlemen.