@emlynaddison what is your standard?
@Perdnoot POTUS prayer breakfasts, "In God we trust" on currency, "God bless America", etc.
What separation?? Hmm.
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@alburtonjr God Bless America is a song; the gov't cannot play it or subsidize it; the song may exist, though. -
@Perdnoot I meant insofar as people, leaders and celebrities saying it after speeches, before games, etc. As if it's a given.@alburtonjr -
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@Perdnoot social contracts are not a basis 4 morality. Never hv been never will be.u hv a sense of it regardless of the rules -
@alburtonjr Who said anything about social contracts? Chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins and birds have morality without gods.@Perdnoot -
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@Perdnoot you say it boils down to talking snakes for me? Right... -
@alburtonjr The sum total of any argument that entertains Christian scripture as truth is precisely that, yes.@Perdnoot -
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@Perdnoot r u saying there would not be morality w/o the dictates of society -
@alburtonjr Look to social animals; that's all we are. http://www.amazon.com/The-Moral-Animal-Evolutionary-Psychology/dp/0679763996 …@Perdnoot - 2 more replies
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@alburtonjr The "In God We Trust" term was added in the McCarthy red scare era; it's also unconstitutional.#atheists -
@Perdnoot @emlynaddison we hold these truths to be self evident... -
@alburtonjr Truth also used to be a flat earth with an orbiting sun. What sense is there living by the writings of our ancestors?@Perdnoot -
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@Perdnoot it was never the truth. Was it? -
@alburtonjr Just as magic trees, giant arks, walking zombies, replicating fish, parting seas and talking snakes were never true.@Perdnoot
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@alburtonjr Those are actually "extra-constitutional" otherwise known as "illegal"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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