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Reply to "The Continental Confederation Congress, Religion, And 20,000 Bibles!"

Originally Posted by gbrk:

YOU and JENNIFER BOTH should know about twisting words and twisting facts but in this case there IS evidence.  Do you just take what Jennifer says as total fact or do you also have difficulty in reading comprehension.  WHERE did I ever say Congress bought or paid for or ordered BIBLES? . . . . . WHERE?


No, I've done my own research.  And I don't believe I ever said that you said they bought bibles. In fact this is the first thing I've directed at you in this thread.  The only other statement I've made about you in this thread is that you aren't much of a historian.

 

I SAID CONGRESS ( on September 17, 1777) AUTHORIZED the IMPORTING. 

A U T H O R I Z E D ....   Meaning if everything went as it should then the Bibles would have been Purchased, procured and Imported as authorized.  They were not printed here because of the cost and availability of paper during this war so they were going to authorize the importation.  Something that would not even have been done IF Congress wanted to separate Government from everything Religion.  Quit trying to prevail in an argument by deception and twisting my words.


I believe you are taking my post to be directed at you specifically.  It is, if you want to offer up the actions of Congress at that time as supporting a "Christian Nation".  Otherwise, I concede that the Bible at that time was an important book, most residents of the colonies at that time were either Christian, Jewish, slaves, or Indians.  For the Christians, in a time that the cost of a printed book was prohibitive for most people, if there was one book in the house, it was probably the Bible.  The family Bible also served as an important legal document with regards to births, marriages and deaths.


Religion was an obviously important topic of the time, and England's handling of it was not the template the Founding Father's were interested in using.  Most of the colonies were settled by specific denominations.  But this does not mean that they were founding a "Christian Nation". 


If praise for a religion is enough to establish us as a nation of a particular religion, then I would have you go to this website, and then declare that based on Bill's logic that we are indeed a Jewish Nation.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/O...ticle.aspx?id=180323
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