"I say we torture them and make them suffer excrutiating pain. We'll see then if they STILL don't believe in God."
The 'Spanish Inquisition' (no, not THEM!) segment of Mel Brooks' "History of the World: Part I" springs to mind.
'Will you convert?
No, no, no, no
Will you confess?
No, no, no, no
Will you revert?
No, no, no, no
Will you say yes?
No, no, no, no
Now I ask in a nice way, I said pretty please, I bent their ears,
now I'll work on their knees!'
My favourite part, BTW:
'Hey, Torquemada, whaddaya say?
I just got back from the auto-da-fé
Auto-da-fé, what's an auto-da-fé?
It's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway!'
Gets me every time! XD
As for you, Beowulf, you & your ilk on FC would do well to remember these quotes by your country's (& creators of the Constitution) Founding Fathers:
'I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature'
'Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear'
-Thomas Jefferson
'Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect'
'In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people'
-James Madison
'The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion'
-George Washington
And this from your 44th President (from his inaugural speech):
'For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers'
-President Barack Obama
I emphasise 'and nonbelievers'. Your words & thoughts run completely against what your country & it's Constitution stands for. Yours is the thinking of Adolf Hitler. What you said this day is UnAmerican. Ergo, YOU are an enemy of the state.