[On an issue of abortion, someone posted a letter of someone who derived their opinion that abortion should be regulated, not completely banned, for cases like rape, incest, and that people shouldn't impose religious morals on an entire country]
"*bangs head on desk* he must believe in the whole 'separation of church and state' carp"
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Yay! Let's institute 'First Amendment Day'. An extra special holiday where good little children go out into the garden and try to find brightly-coloured facsimiles of the constitution that the Separation of Church and State Carp might have hidden there (wink)! The one who finds the most wins a chocolate fish!
Then we all retire indoors for a lovely fish dinner, but before anybody tucks in, remember, on First Amendment Day we always begin our meal by reciting the Treaty of Tripoli and giving thanks to farsighted men like Thomas Jefferson, who realised that tolerance is too important to be left in the hands of the people, since majority rule is so short a ride away from tyranny.
Actually, that's a not half bad idea. Cheers, Nutmeg!
Hahaha - an addition to my as yet short list of FundyFavorites=
The Church and State Carp
Jesus dined on the cross
The Lard will punish you
Atheists have no morels
(I love Mexican food, and yes, the lard is punishing me)
I asked my carp what they thought of separation of church and state, he just stared at me......... So I fed him.
@ David B.
This is normally where I'd post a half-dozen quotes from the founders that show they wanted a distinct separation of church and state from the beginning.
However, I can't help but giggle at the idea of a "Separation of Church and State Carp" and First Amendment Day. That would be a great holiday, especially if we government employees could have the day off.
""*bangs head on desk* he must believe in the whole 'separation of church and state' carp"
Well, it sure beats the heck out of that "theocratic dominionist" crab.
You're in the wrong country...
and if you're looking for a Christian theocracy you're in the wrong time too.
But I guess the Dark Ages sound just about right for you.
he must believe in the whole 'separation of church and state' carp
I guess Thomas Jefferson believed that carp, too:
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State . - Jefferson's Letter to Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut
For cod's hake. What a load of pollocks. Honestly, I despair of this plaice sometimes!
(This cod go on for a while, there's plank-tons of potential puns left...)
Someone needs to go back to school. That's the only way eel not be gillty of such bass(ic) errors and won't be prwnd on the net. He'll probably just continue on in ignorance and lamprey for our soles though.
Anyway, i gotta go. My singer-songwriter mate John Dory is having a court herring now cos his new tun(a) return of the mackeral has infringed on Mark Morrison's copyright. Sea ya!
Maybe America should make a reservation for fundamentalist christians, where they can live their lives according to their stupid beliefs.
You say that you want *NO* separation of church and state? Where is your prayer mat and your Q'uran?
But- you didn't say WHAT religion you wanted to run the state, did you? There is a saying that goes like this- "be careful what you ask for- you might get it".
actually, I think it's "separation of church and state trout" not, carp.
Geez, these people can't get anything right.
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Damn, I got nothing.
And now for a word from our president:
[kazoo chorus of Hail to the Chief]
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." --George W. Bush, Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
A statement in favor of secularism so clear and yet so far over our heads that for seven years we had no idea what the fuck he was talking about. Brilliant! ;)
I'm for the seperation of church and state.
I'm also for the seperation of you and uteruses. As in, now. Give them back to the women they belong to and STFU.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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