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1/14/2008
2:47:52 pm EST
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Critics Slam 'History Week’ Resolution By Rep. Forbes
Author: Steven G. Vegh Source: The Virginian-Pilot (VA)
Title: CRITICS SLAM 'HISTORY WEEK’ RESOLUTION BY REP. FORBES
A congressional resolution by U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes to designate an American Religious History Week has critics saying the measure ignores the nation’s spiritual pluralism and distorts history.
Forbes, a Republican whose 4th District includes part of South Hampton Roads, filed a nonbinding resolution last month “affirming the rich spiritual and religious history” of the United States.
If approved by the House, Resolution 888 would support a designated week each May “for the appreciation of and education on America’s history of religious faith.” The measure has 31 sponsors and is before a House committee.
The measure was criticized as “meddling in religious issues” by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a nonprofit advocacy group that says the government is supposed to be religiously neutral.
An Americans United news release said the resolution distorts American history to “portray a recurring intersection of religion and government.”
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| My Initial Reaction... | Jan 15th. at 2:24:03 am EST
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Katmandu (elba, Alabama) - Email Me
was, "Oh no, like I really need a politician telling me to set aside a week to recognize this country's religious history." And that is still my reaction.
"This isn’t a resolution honoring Christianity. This is a resolution that looks at faith in the country and goes to the historical facts,”
Maybe. But it certainly looks to be a push to get the religion of the majority back to the high status it once enjoyed in this country.
If we want to talk about the history of religion, and sometimes the lack thereof, in the building of the US we must also consider the likes of the Chinese (Buddhists?) who built the west-coast railways and the India-Indian Hindus who own some convenience stores and motels I've been in in my life. Ok, so Washington and many of those other famous dead guys may've quoted a verse or bible story. Whoopie. On the flip-side of that coin, I think it was Franklin that history remembers as having more faith in humanity than in any God.
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| Interesting | Jan 14th. at 11:01:51 pm EST
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Lady Arrian (Cincinnati, Ohio) - Email Me
That he cited references from an avowed atheist. Thomas Jefferson was not only a scientist, a statesmen and a president, he was also an admitted atheist who was against organized religion.
"The resolution includes more than 60 historical references to presidents, court rulings, official events and monuments that cite a role or presence of religion in an American context.
The citations range from quotes by Presidents Jefferson and Reagan to the Bible verses at the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. Five pages of footnotes give the sources of the information."
MP & BB
Maria
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| The Folks Who Came To This Country | Jan 14th. at 8:32:55 pm EST
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Shadowbear (Hillsboro, Oregon) - Email Me
in the beginning were fleeing religious persecution because the government where they lived did not approve of their religion. They ran to a place where nobody lived (nobody that counted anyway) so they could practice their religion in peace. But others kept coming with the same thought. So they put boundaries on their areas and killed or drove out anyone of another religion who came in & did not convert. What they did to the first peoples is one of those genocide things we don't like to talk about - the first thanksgiving was to celebrate the slaughter of 750 men, women & children, wasn't that nice and christian. Anyway, they went on like this until they decided to rebel against the government claiming the colonies - and that's when they realized that they would have to stop killing each other over religion and start killing the british. Well, the only way they could agree about that was to agree that the government they were setting up would have nothing to say about religion - so they could keep on doing their own thing and killing off the indians.
Thus, we have a country that keeps the government out of religion and the religion out of government because we just might have had enough genocide and religious killing here in this country to last us a couple of lifetimes. Bet that isn't the religious history in america that they want to celebrate.
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| Here's An Idea.... | Jan 14th. at 6:46:44 pm EST
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Wolfshawk (Bradenton, Florida) - Email Me
Do it the first week of May and include all the Beltane celebrations. You can't get more of a rich spiritual history than that.
Wolf.
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| And Well They Should! | Jan 14th. at 6:46:28 pm EST
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
I raise very serious doubts as to the veracity of this resolution. I fear that this will seriously distort history in favor of a purely xtian agenda.
History is made up of more than religion-which seems to be the basis of this resolution. So instead of fact-- we get more religious propaganda.
If they intend to teach History- let it be the truth-or leave well enough alone. And the truth is- we are NOT a christian nation. We are a diversity. And it wasn't just christians alone that wrote the documents and did the fighting and dying-but a multitude of others, who sadly, were swept to the side, forgotten and even reviled when all was done and over.
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| Trying Again | Jan 14th. at 5:16:15 pm EST
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Rutilus Draconis (Fair Haven, Michigan) - Email Me
Here they go again trying to push America as a "christian" nation. These screwballs need to do some history research. Most of the Founding Fathers were deists, this is already a well known fact. A lesser known one is Ben Franklin's association with the Hellfire Society, a group that got together for drinking,women and such with their rites mocking those of christianity's. There are many other such examples of this NOT being a christian nation as to stop these xians for good. Nowhere in the Constitution does it even mention religion other than stating, very wisely, that religion and government shall not mix. That alone prevents it from being a christian nation. So if theres to be a History week for the nations religions then it should include all religions with no special rights for christians.
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| Endorsing Faith | Jan 14th. at 4:47:10 pm EST
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Young Coyote (W. Hempstead, California) - Email Me
This is another attempt to endorse Christianity as a state religion. While the bill doesn't actually make Christianity the "official" religion of the US, it does create a stepping stone to do so.
The historical "facts" are also, shall we say, highly questionable.
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| Well... | Jan 14th. at 4:32:20 pm EST
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Amtehuti (Queens, Florida) - Email Me
At least Forbes was labeled a "self-identified Christian". Nice to see the label applied to them instead of just "self-identified witch". Other than that, is this guy smoking something?! When are they going to learn that they can't have a theocracy? Sheesh. Can't be that difficult a concept to grasp...
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| What The "#&$@***XX" | Jan 14th. at 4:22:38 pm EST
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Libertarian (Langley, Washington) - Email Me - Web
Can not Rep. Randy Find something better to do ? Is this what we the taxpayers want from the people we send to congress ? Now there is something that truly offends me.
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