The Americans also defeated the greatest army in the world at that time, the British army, with a bunch of rag-tag volunteer soldiers with no shoes, few weapons and out numbered. How could that possiblyhappen??? The greatest army in the world! God interviened. Got any other explanations? He wanted the United States to exist and that is why we have God mentioned in our Declaration of Independence, God in our constitution, God mentioned before our Supreme Court presides, God on our money, prayer to him before each day that our congress conviens and the President lays his hand on the Bible and swears to God when he is sworn into the office. We have some weird human creatures slithering around but as a whole, but the people of the United States believe in the God of the Bible. Sorry, you seem to me in the minority. Oh, one more thing, 99.99% of Americans eat meat because God says it is OK to do so.
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The Americans defeated the British for many reasons, including the French help (which conservatives never seem to remember when they're calling the French cheese-eating surrender monkeys) and the real difficulty in the 18th century of projecting military might across a body of water as large as the Atlantic.
God didn't intervene. God isn't in our constitution. God wasn't on our money back then, and if we ever have a non-Christian president, s/he won't be required to take the oath of office on the bible.
I eat meat, but I do so because it tastes good. God has nothing to do with it.
The Declaration of Independence has all the force of law of a paper grocery sack. The word "God" appears nowhere in the Constitution. The rest fall under the rubric of ceremonial deism - they do not (necessarily) refer to the Christian God(TM).
Oh, and not all of us eat meat because God says it's okay. Some of us eat meat because it's yummy.
Vietnam also defeated the greatest army in the world at that time, the US army, with a bunch of rag-tag volunteer soldiers with no shoes, few weapons and out numbered. How could that possiblyhappen??? The greatest army in the world! Uh, Buddha intervened?
"The Americans also defeated the greatest army in the world at that time, the British army, with a bunch of rag-tag volunteer soldiers with no shoes, few weapons and out numbered. How could that possiblyhappen???"
Because the revolutionary army was far better trained and equipped than popular culture would have us believe, because they knew the territory better than the British army, and because the French helped out.
The French intervened, because they didn't like the British on religious grounds. The Hessians helped the British, for the same reasons. Mostly, we were fighting on our own soil, and didn't have to transport troops and supplies across the Atlantic.
Yes, the French helped a great deal.
Baron von Steuben also contributed, by introducing formal military discipline to the Continental Army. von Steuben also had teh ghey, but that's OK.
But we can give the Freemason leadership more credit than god for persisting.
The reason we can all eat meat is because in general, we are smarter than our food. There are some among us though, who couldn't outwit a pumpkin....
"Oh, one more thing, 99.99% of Americans eat meat because God says it is OK to do so."
So, would that mean that 99.99% of Americans don't have the common sense to eat when they are hungry, unless God tells them to?
You f'king fundies have no concept of Divine Intervention. You wanna see what a nation that is clearly and unambiguously backed by an omnipotent being capable of bending reality? I can show you with a little game called Total War. We're talking pennies from heaven (money cheat), divine foresight (save/reload), and battlefield intervention (talk about taking an entire fortress with one guy and a pocket full of miracles).
Dumbass.
You f'king fundies have no concept of Divine Intervention. You wanna see what a nation that is clearly and unambiguously backed by an omnipotent being capable of bending reality? I can show you with a little game called Total War. We're talking pennies from heaven (money cheat), divine foresight (save/reload), and battlefield intervention (talk about taking an entire fortress with one guy and a pocket full of miracles).
Dumbass.
Oh, one more thing, 99.99% of Americans eat meat because God says it is OK to do so.
I wouldn't care much even if it was true, since 100% Americans feed upon human suffering all across the planet anyway. Doesn't really matter to the rest of us earthlings if, as a republican you take pride in that fact or as a democrat you live in it's denial.
'Oh, one more thing, 99.99% of Americans eat meat because God says it is OK to do so.'
Mmm, I'd imagine it's more like 99.99% of people who choose to eat meat do so because we've evolved as omnivores...
Didn't you have help from Native Americans? And the French, who later fought on the side of the Confederacy? That war was won by the Northern states, right? If the French was God, then what happened there? God decided he didn't want to side with the future Bible Beltians?
You only have .01 percent vegetarians and vegans? And non-Christian/Jewish/Muslims? (We all know that God/YHWH/Allah is practically the same deity.)
Strange, in my family there are about 30 percent light-vegetarians (they eat fish and shellfish, but not meat, due to the treatment of the animals brought up to be slaughtered).
I'm the atheist and I eat meat. I could do without it, probably, but I kinda like the taste of pork meat. That's the one God didn't like so much in the Old Testament, right?
Not to mention home-field which in war is the ultimate high ground. While some battles involved a more organized large batallion vs. a village of farmers, most times the British were outnumbered.
The British had overextended their ability to rule at this time on top of that, and they were in fact, hoping to increase Army and Navy from the colonies.
You tried to take Canada and your superior numbers failed thanks to our home ground advantage (and standing British/new Canadian/ first nation resistance) Where was your God then?
Think of colonial America as the British Vietnam.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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