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Originally posted by Rudey
It relates in that you can't look at one point in time and judge a nation by that one single point in time.
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OK, fair point. No disagreement at all.
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Originally posted by Rudey
Also I'm not sure if I'm understanding you in that I'm hijacking the thread, but the topic of Christianity's link to America is somewhat of a hijack itself to "are there nice conservatives out there?"
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Wasn't assigning the hijack to you - just pointing out that we're in the middle of an intense hijack (which is immensely more interesting than the original topic).
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Originally posted by Rudey
As for law being written based on Christianity alone, no I don't think it should and has been, but it surely has influenced the law and our policies strongly.
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I won't disagree - influence is an acceptible term, but to quantify the influence in such a way as to take such drastic steps as Connie and others have seems harsh, and a bit quick on the trigger.
For myself to reach the conclusions she has, the influence would have to reach the levels I inquired about - which would, to my mind, seriously violate the vision that the nation was founded upon (to tie this into a hypothesis).