WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH GOD?????

Attitude is everything and mine is great!!!

Sorry, assumptions are most often wrong and so are yours.

I was a christian for most than 32 years befor I started studying religions, history, science, archeology and philosophy. After doing extensive research for more than 30 years, I did an analysis all the data I had compiled and came to the conclusion as the majority of scientist on this planet has arrived at.

Religions are based on superstitions, mythology, fear and fantasy and not much more. There is no rational thought or logic behind any of it.

To believe that the superstitions and ignorance of uneducated ancient herdsmen is more believable that the highly educated scientists of today cannot even begin to be called rational.

As for the 'back burner' issue. At least the Canadian society functions, which I might add is a far cry what is happening the USA. We are happy, healthy people with a competent government and a healthy economy that is growing. We are not in the recession your government is either. We also have a much lower crime rate as well.

Obviously, the American fascination on religious has not made one iota difference at all. Sitting in church does not give you morals any more than sitting on a beach makes you a grain of sand.

"In Canada, there were 542 homicides in 2000 resulting in a national rate of 1.8 homicides per 100,000 population. By comparison, there were 15,517 homicides in the U.S., resulting in a rate (5.5) three times higher than Canada’s."

"Similarly, the aggravated assault rate in the U.S. was more than double the Canadian rate in 2000. The U.S. also showed a higher rate of robbery (65% higher) than Canada. About 41% of robberies in the U.S. involved a firearm, compared to 16% in Canada."

"In examining arrest/charge data, the U.S. had much higher rates for drug offences, impaired driving and prostitution."

"The report also compares crime rates among the nine largest metropolitan areas in each country. With the exception of Boston, the remaining eight large American metropolitan areas had homicide rates much higher than any of the nine largest Canadian metropolitan areas. Conversely, Vancouver and Winnipeg reported higher rates of break-ins and motor vehicle thefts than any of the nine American metropolitan areas."

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"Among the four countries compared for 2006, Canada boasted the lowest teen birth and abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 (27.9), followed by Sweden (31.4), England/Wales (60.3), and the United States (61.2). "

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Sorry to disillusion you but it NEVER was based on christianity. The constitution never mentions god at all.
Some of the founding fathers were Atheists and Deists, not christians at all.

"God" does not appear in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.
"God" does not appear in the First Amendment is textual as well.
Article VI: no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States is part of the constitution.
The clause is cited by advocates of separation of church and state as an example of "original intent" of the Framers of the Constitution

The final authority in this document is "WE THE PEOPLE" and they worship every god under the sun of our Creator



John Adams Quotes -

"As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?" -letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, Dec. 27, 1816

"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole cartloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity."

"The question before the human race is, whether the God of Nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?"

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Thomas Jefferson did not believe in the virgin birth of Jesus, and he said so:

"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors." -- Jefferson's letter to John Adams, April 11 1823

Jefferson was called an ATHEIST by Christian ministers of his day, who tried to block his presidency! How can Christians claim him now as one of them, now that he's dead?!
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"As to the calumny of Atheism, I am so broken to calumnies of every kind, from every department of government, Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary, and from every minion of theirs holding office or seeking it, that I entirely disregard it, and from Chace it will have less effect than from any other man in the United States. It has been so impossible to contradict all their lies, that I have determined to contradict none; for while I should be engaged with one, they would publish twenty new ones." -- Jefferson's Letter to James Monroe, May 26, 1800

Thomas Jefferson did not believe that Jesus was God, and he said so:

"The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous. Jesus had to walk on the perilous confines of reason and religion; and a step to right or left might place Him within the grasp of the priests of the superstition, a bloodthirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the Being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. They were constantly laying snares, too, to entangle Him in the web of the law. He was justifiable, therefore, in avoiding these by evasions, by sophisms, by misconstructions and misapplications of scraps of the prophets, and in defending Himself with these their own weapons, as sufficient, ad homines, at least. That Jesus did not mean to impose Himself on mankind as the Son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in the lore." -- Thomas Jefferson's letter to William Short, August 4, 1820

Banjamin Franklin Quotes

"I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them."

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." -in Poor Richard's Almanac

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." -in Poor Richard's Almanac

"It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers" (Priestley's Autobiography)

Thomas Paine Quotes

"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half of the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."

"Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies."

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all."

"The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion."