May 16, 2007

America NOT Founded Upon Christianity…

I found this at DRC’s site, who in turn got it from Tammy and she is right in that it does need to be repeated and often.

In a recent Journal & Courier article, an attendee of a local gathering in observance of the National Day of Prayer alleged, “Our nation was founded on biblical principles.”

To the extent that our Founding Fathers had any religious affiliation at all, it was a tepid embracing of the philosophy of deism, a popular system of thought at the time. Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, among many others, held deist, rather than Christian, religious beliefs.

The two documents upon which our country was actually founded — i.e., the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States — contain not a word about Christianity, Christian principles, the Bible or Jesus Christ. Neither is there any mention of the Ten Commandments, heaven, prayer or being saved.

In 1797, the Treaty of Tripoli, negotiated by none other than George Washington, declared that “the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Congress unanimously approved the text of this treaty, and John Adams signed it.

Mandatory church affiliation, among other factors, led to the establishment of the term a “wall of separation between church and state,” allowing, at each citizen’s discretion, freedom of religion or freedom from religion.

The phrase “under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, and our national motto became “In God We Trust” in 1956 in response to USSRs’ so-called “godless Communists.” It is historically incorrect to claim that America was founded upon Christianity.

Indeed, it was quite the opposite.

Randall S. Smith

Rossville

This Email Will Make Your Dick Bigger!

Oh my. I saw that in my inbox and had to read. I’m still waiting. Liars.

waiting….

waiting….

asshats…

Enter the Nacho…

I’m still not sure what to make of the new Dorito’s videos. They have to be about the most ridiculous things I have seen in quite some time, but I darn sure keep going back to watch them all anyway. Check this one out.

This one has the two new Doritos, Wild White Nacho fighting with Smokin’ Cheddar BBQ. I won’t give away the entire video but there are Nunchaku. The premise of the whole thing is to Fight for the flavor. We get to vote for our favorite new flavor of Doritos and only one will survive, with Doritos no longer making the other one. There is an entire storyline through the whole thing, so you have to watch them all to figure out what exactly is going on.

One of the videos I watched had them going at it in the ring with Cheese Knives (my favorite), a battle ax, and even a jackhammer, until one finally picks up the referee and bashes the other with him.

You can check out all of the videos over at Heavy’s Fight for the Flavor page and get to the voting links while you are there. I love Doritos but haven’t tried EITHER of these yet, so now I will have to get them when I go grocery shopping on Friday.

Jerry Falwell is Burning in Hell…

…and I just about lost my cookies laughing when I read this post over at the Zero Boss.

FuelMyBlog Superbowl Commercial Contest

I’m not entering this one, but I thought I would pass it on:

So, you are a fan of The Superbowl and you always wanted to star in one of those cool commercials..this new competition sponsored by MyBowlAd is going to give one of the blog writers in the fuelmyblog community the chance. The rules are simple, we are having two rounds, the first round is to write in just 300 words why you think you should star in a Superbowl commercial seen on average by a billion viewers worldwide. The second round entrants will be determined by votes, the top twenty voted for write-ups will need to produce a 30 second video showcasing their talents. The winner will be determined by number of views, more on that later..

Dates and Prize

The first round of the competition starts 15th May 2007, last entries will be accepted by 12pm GMT on 12th June 2007. Voting will start on the 13th June with the final 20 announced on the 19th June 2007. The deadline for the videos will be 10th July 2007 and the winner announced on the 19th July 2007.

The prize consists of return flights for two people, from anywhere in the World to Los Angeles(USA) plus accommodation and you will get to appear in the ad with some of the internet’s top stars.

How do I enter and what are the rules?

Simple, email us your 300 word entry, you must post it on your blog (your blog needs to be on fuelmyblog), you must also tag your post mybowlad and fuelmyblog. That’s it!

Good luck!



I am in a very non-blogging mood this week so am just passing along some news. This would probably be a pretty cool trip and this one IS open to US residents but I just have no interest whatsoever in going.