Can I be Anti-Rev. Briggs without being Anti-God? Last time I checked, they weren't the same. And "The Father, The Son, and Reverend Briggs" just doesn't work for me. I don't even see him listed in my Bible Concordance, either. And that thing has every single word that appears in the Book.
Methinks that the phrase "Lunatic Atheists and their Lawyers" might indicate a recent, unsuccessful, confrontation with same, particularly the Lawyers.
Um, good luck with the lawsuit. It's pretty hard to libel a large group of people (http://www.dancingwithlawyers.com/freeinfo/libel.shtml). The being is that there are no specific victims. If it were possible, you'd have seen blacks suing the KKK, Jews suing the Neo-Nazis, etc. in the courts years ago.
I'll bet the certification of insanity would work, though. :-)
Oh, great. I was building up a decent snark, and then you went and posted a picture--and now all I can think is "Poor guy, it must be scary to think that many people hate you and the things you love that much."
There is, unfortunately, a rather vocal group of people in the US who like to put about the idea that the country was founded as a Christian country. They keep repeating it, and, since they repeat it loudly enough and often enough, there are plenty of people who believe it.
As well, of course it wasn't a civil war. We had one of those between the North and the South. We fought a war for independence from England. Totally a different thing. Yeah. Sure.
Fair enough, but it was my impression (and correct me if I'm wrong) that the OP was asking what the difference was between 'traitors' then and now.
One of the things that I'd like to know in general is why we think it's a good thing to teach our kids the (to my knowledge untrue) story that the US won its independence because we hid behind rocks and trees and things like smart people, while the British troops all marched in straight lines and conducted themselves honorably. I mean, isn't that what those damn, dirty terr'ists do?
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Date: 2007-06-15 05:37 pm (UTC)Methinks that the phrase "Lunatic Atheists and their Lawyers" might indicate a recent, unsuccessful, confrontation with same, particularly the Lawyers.
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Date: 2007-06-15 06:17 pm (UTC)I'll bet the certification of insanity would work, though. :-)
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Date: 2007-06-15 05:48 pm (UTC)...wait. Please tell me it's a joke. Nobody could seriously put up a big, dumb sign and call OTHER people lunatics.
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Date: 2007-06-15 06:14 pm (UTC)The good news is that he's 96 years old and should be having a personal introduction to his god soon enough:
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Date: 2007-06-15 06:26 pm (UTC)DUH.
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Date: 2007-06-16 04:31 am (UTC)As well, of course it wasn't a civil war. We had one of those between the North and the South. We fought a war for independence from England. Totally a different thing. Yeah. Sure.
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Date: 2007-06-16 04:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-16 06:32 am (UTC)One of the things that I'd like to know in general is why we think it's a good thing to teach our kids the (to my knowledge untrue) story that the US won its independence because we hid behind rocks and trees and things like smart people, while the British troops all marched in straight lines and conducted themselves honorably. I mean, isn't that what those damn, dirty terr'ists do?
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