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Old 10-11-2004, 05:39 PM
Taualumna Taualumna is offline
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Originally posted by KSig RC
You're wrong.

In general, the forefathers of our nation, when mapping out the country, utilized secular principles to found it. See e plurbus unim, an adaptation of "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property", etc.

"In God We Trust" didn't come until much later - on some coins due to an unfortunate misappointment of a pro-Christian man by Lincoln in the 1860s, and then on bills as a backlash against 'Godless Communism' in 1956.

Again, this is why I bring up relevance to the conversation. The statement is misguided, unfounded, and patently false - I can see where you got the ideas, but they're interpolation rather than fact.

-RC
--PS - I don't hate you at all, I'm just correcting the factual errors you've posted and attempting to bring some of your posts back to the topic. We don't butt heads in other forums, and I don't want you to stop posting here - just take it for what it is, an attempt to correct your misconception.
Even if that were so, most, if not all of the founding fathers were Christian. They would have influenced the principles, even if it was unintentional.
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