# The Constitution does not forbid religious symobls on government property

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**Created:** [January 12, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-constitution-does-not-forbid-religious-symobls-on-government-property/480973 "2009-01-12T20:51:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-constitution-does-not-forbid-religious-symobls-on-government-property/480973/81 "2009-01-14T22:01:55Z")

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> [@cosmosdan](#):
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> I’ve had good friends and family claim “this country was founded on Christian principles” as if Christianity had dibbs on America. They missed the point of the constitution. I always ask. ?“What principles do you think are uniquely Christian?”  
> There may be doctrines that are Christian but I can’t think of any _principles_ that don’t exist seperately from Christianity.

Dude, you don’t remember when Jesus was dishing out the wine at some other dude’s bachelor party and talking all about taxation without representation, the separation of church and state and the basis of checks and balances in a government by the people for the people?

Seriously, you gotta read that bible a little more often.

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