I don’t have any problem with people declaring their faith, but I do have a problem with people declaring my faith. I am an atheist; I am also a citizen of the state of Georgia (and of the United States). The Constitution of the State of Georgia says “We, the people of Georgia, relying upon the protection and guidance of Almighty God…”; but I am one of the “people of Georgia” and, as an atheist, I don’t rely upon the protection of guidance of Almighty God. So the preamble of the Georgia Constitution is false.
It’s one thing for me to say “I am an atheist”, but it would be sort of rude for me to say “suzyrice.com is an atheist”. The Constitution of the United States gets this right–it doesn’t proclaim all Americans to be Christians, or Deists, or Muslims, or Hindus, or Scientologists, or monotheists, or polytheists, or atheists; it respects the fact that Americans disagree about those matters, but nonetheless remain Americans. Unfortunately the legislatures and constitutional conventions of the various states (not to mention Congress, all too frequently) get it wrong.
YOU posted a link to my website and insulted me and my site content and YOU have the audacity to even suggest that I am “a drama queen”?
I’ve read stupid comments on these so-called anonymous sling-forums before but this is really tipping the bottom of your crazy barrel of nonsense.
And of course you had to return here to just ramp up your emotional nonsense to, what, sputter on about garbage as you have?
If you don’t like a site content, don’t publicize it. If you don’t care for information (recorded facts, in this case of what I published on my site), don’t go about complaining about your “emotional” interpretations of what should be but isn’t. By doing so, you prove you’re irrational and not making any point other than you, YOU, don’t feel well.
The fifty state constitutions all declare and acknowledge a respect for – and accredit – God for various attributes, and to summarize, they all associate their formation as a state to God.
If you don’t like that, then write a book about how much you hate history and can’t stand facts.
All I did on my site was publish the preambles to those fifty state constitutions, making this point more commonly known: all fifty states acknowledge God in their constitutions and some to the extent that they accredit Jesus Christ as source and inspiration, and thank God accordingly for a privilege they attribute to organizing as they have.
You don’t like that, you would like them to somehow not have done what was done, you “feel” that there should be no God or Christian religious references, so what, it won’t change what is.
And complaining about me for posting that information on my own website under your gratuitious, cryptic “anonymous” attempt to cover your own identity is embarrassing…about and for you, no one else.
I’m writing under my own name, I publish under my own name, I registered here under my own name after seeing your (“anonymous users”) forum in my website stats and found the link published by whomever, casting irrational aspersions upon me and my site.
I’ve read some foolish wastes of time in my life before on the internet but you all here take the prize for the most wasted doing wasteful things with your time, attempting yet more animosity in the world today than the world needs.
If you can’t contribute, please, try to do something good and beneficial for our world and knock off telling lies and posing “dramatically” on the internet complaining about Christ, God, Christianity, the constitutional preambles of the fifty states of the United States of America, your mom, your basement, your lack of inspiration and lauding your anonymous identities.
This is just about as stupid a waste of time as ever I’ve seen. God can work wonders for your dismal outlooks, if you’d simply lay down your dedication to the absurd and hateful.
THE STATE CONSTITUTIONS declared THEIR FAITH and principles of gratitude.
Those fifty states comprise the United States of America. Had you been “there” in the past when the state constitutions were written – to no one’s surprise, you weren’t, you’re here now in the present in your life at this time in reality – you might have tried to summon enough support and enjoyment for whatever expertise you may have to be included as an author in writing any one respective state constitution.
The sky may suddenly start raining apple pies but it won’t. You may have lived and served as an author of any state constitution, but you didn’t.
That’s the reality of this issue, that the “hope and change” opiners here without any regard for personal responsibility (to me, about my site, about yourselves by how you’re behaving here in posting a ridiculing link to my site, suggesting wrongful aspects to and about me and my site – namely, I nor my site sends out any content via email EXCEPT to those who subscribe via my site’s feed, and, the complaint at the start of this complaint thread establishes a false perception that my site somehow forced-fed some “Christian” content that the thread deems rejectable, etc.).
The reality is you weren’t involved in writing any one state constitution nor all of them. The persons who did write them were entrusted among their community of peers to do so. They wrote dedications to God who they accredited with inspiration and guidance.
You may want to re-examine just why you’re even a resident of any state of the union, accordingly, if you find the very constitutions rejectable.
And everyone knows I am not an atheist, that you are an atheist (from this thread), and that the aspersions cast upon me and my website for “daring” (in your complainer’s perceptions) to publish anything factual that references God are ridiculous lies by, obviously, unhappy, grousing people.
If you’re an atheist, then, live happily with your plight or situation, but it sure seems to me that the bunch of you here – complaining about God in state constitutional preambles and me and my site for even publishing such information – are very unhappy people. I can’t say I read anything here that is inspirational of anything greater than feeling terrible about yourselves and suspecting bleak things from the world at large.
Thus, the anonymous “cover” to hide your bleak realities. As to any constructive advice for you, if you’re feeling fine or even great as to who you are, come out of the dark and declare yourself and try to get involved in writing your atheist state constitutional preambles.
Try to gain popular support for striking God and suppressing the Freedom of Religion from others.
The point I’m making as to your “I’m an atheist, don’t push God on me” argument is that you are enjoying your Freedom of Religion, others are enjoying theirs.
It’s your intolerance that’s bothering you, however. You’re intolerant that a majority of persons with Christian faith and association worked to establish all fifty states and to write with majority approval those state constitutions.
Because, if it wasn’t your intolerance in that regard (I also suspect you are intolerant in many other areas of your life, or lives in regard the others complaining here), then, you’d be lauding the Freedom of Religion. You are free to exercise your faith, as are others – it’s just that you’re intolerant of the faiths of others.
There’s a litany, an unending list, of complaints that theoretically can be made about all that is, but the simple fact is that the state constitutional preambles all include an acknowledgement and attribution for inspiration to God.
That is something real, that exists, that can’t be “undone” by wondering why those states weren’t round apples in Queen Victoria’s basement or anything else as absurd as can be imagined.
Right, do that. I receive a lot of attempts by Leftwingers and other Democrats to sell me on union complaints and other socialist demands, and in my experience, I have to send them multiple requests to stop contacting me.
Even Obama’s White House spams people so don’t focus so much negativity on the grandmas of our world.
Personally, I prefer “Freedom FROM religion”, thank you very much…
feel free to worship/not worship however you see fit, just don’t try to force your ideals upon me (the hypothetical “your” that is, not anyone in this thread)
…besides, everyone knows that the only true religion is Frisbeeterianism (when you die, your Soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck) Wham-O be Praised!
Not to weigh in unduly, but IMO the way you phrased your OP certainly does make it sound like you received an e-mail from this particular website. (“I get email . . . feel like responding to this one?”)
Yes, I have the “audacity”, and yes, you are a Grade A drama queen. I didn’t insult you and so fucking what if I insulted its content? Don’t like it? Stop posting on the internet. I don’t see what in my OP is insulting about you or what you wrote, but I understand- you’re a drama queen.
And here you prove my point.
And again.
I should only publicize content I like? Sez you! I’ll publicize whatever I want!
I didn’t complain and I didn’t post any “emotional interpretations”. What on Earth are you talking about?
I don’t feel well?
But no one should post about it on this “so-called anonymous sling-forum”?
What the hell are you talking about? I don’t know who you are, I wasn’t complaining about you, nothing about me posting here is gratuitous or cryptic and I’m not attempting to cover my identity.
Could you clarify which faith these states are expressing? Particularly New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Iowa, Hawaii, Colorado, Vermont and Washington.
But “they” did not represent ALL of their citizens! “They” were the reigning majority of the day (white Christian guys) whose faith and principles of gratitude were thereafter thrust upon everyone in the state, even if those citizens were Jewish or Muslim or atheist or FSM!
Apparently non-Christians were either not deemed to exist, or if they existed, they were not deemed worthy of notice or mention in the very document that purports to establish the powers and duties of the government, and the rights of the citizens, of that state. As such, at minimum, the states effectively dismissed anyone in the state who chose not to believe as the white Christian guys chose to do. This is the state promoting one religion over others, which I, and many others, believe is wrong.
Yes, you have the freedom to choose whatever religion you want or no religion at all, but so does everyone else! How would you feel if your state constitution started: “We, the people of the State of Xxxxx, grateful to the wise and powerful Vishnu for our freedom, in order to secure its blessings, …”
You would “not feel well.” You would feel slighted, denigrated, marginalized. So don’t harp on others for not wanting it thrown into their faces that their state constitutions don’t even recognize their existence.
