dancindave
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U.S. Supreme Court Ruling: ATHEISM IS RELIGION
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Nice story, never happened
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So Christiananality pedophilia more perfect union of fabricated events in history suicidal super egos for sociopsychopathogical homicidal human farming……as Christian Nation SCOTUS National Religion George Washington University Hospital Washington, D.C. born USA citizens are Islam……
Into the Night
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Try Englsh. It works better.
dancindave
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As usual still avoiding acceptance that Christian Nation SCOTUS Rehnquist national religion of Klues Klucks duh Klans “what is 9/11 ?” rhetorical Freudian slip Fourth Reich July for the past 25 years…..
Alter2Ego
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Of course it did. Notice what's stated at paragraph 1 of the court transcript on the matter of Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488 (1961), where the U.S. Supreme Court clearly states that the "freedom of belief and religion" for the Plaintiff (atheist Roy Torcaso) was "unconstitutionally" invaded.
"Appellant was appointed by the Governor of Maryland to the office of Notary Public, but he was denied a commission because he would not declare his belief in God, as required by the Maryland Constitution. Claiming that this requirement violated his rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, he sued in a state court to compel issuance of his commission, but relief was denied. The State Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that the state constitutional provision is self-executing, without need for implementing legislation, and requires declaration of a belief in God as a qualification for office. Held: This Maryland test for public office cannot be enforced against appellant, because it unconstitutionally invades his freedom of belief and religion guaranteed by the First Amendment and protected by the Fourteenth Amendment from infringement by the States. Pp. 367 U. S. 489-496.
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How does it violate the 1st and 14th amendments?Of course it did. Notice what's stated at paragraph 1 of the court transcript on the matter of Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488 (1961), where the U.S. Supreme Court clearly states that the "freedom of belief and religion" for the Plaintiff (atheist Roy Torcaso) was "unconstitutionally" invaded.
"Appellant was appointed by the Governor of Maryland to the office of Notary Public, but he was denied a commission because he would not declare his belief in God, as required by the Maryland Constitution. Claiming that this requirement violated his rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, he sued in a state court to compel issuance of his commission, but relief was denied. The State Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that the state constitutional provision is self-executing, without need for implementing legislation, and requires declaration of a belief in God as a qualification for office. Held: This Maryland test for public office cannot be enforced against appellant, because it unconstitutionally invades his freedom of belief and religion guaranteed by the First Amendment and protected by the Fourteenth Amendment from infringement by the States. Pp. 367 U. S. 489-496.
The State of Maryland is not the federal government.
Atheism IS NOT A RELIGION...it IS a belief system.
That is what the SCOTUS ruled.
The reading by Alter2Ego is baloney.
That is what the SCOTUS ruled.
The reading by Alter2Ego is baloney.
Dutch Uncle
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Over a thousand years, a lot of weird shit can happen. While I agree it's unlikely due to magic or "divine intervention", there have been cases before where a bunch of people, usually a village, in a low lying area were asphyxiated by toxic gas from a volcano.
The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is thought to be a conflation of natural events. In a land where 97% of the people were illiterate, word of mouth is how stories traveled. A few thousand years is a lot of campfire stories before Moses or someone else wrote them down.
Without literacy being a common trait, stories are told by word-of-mouth. It's a historical version of the campfire game "Gossip" AKA "Telephone".
Lake Nyos disaster (1986) | Description, Deaths, & Facts | Britannica
The Lake Nyos disaster was a massive release of carbon dioxide from Lake Nyos in Cameroon on August 21, 1986. It killed between 1,700 and 1,800 people.
www.britannica.com
BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
Jessica Cecil explores the legend of sodom and Gamorrah.
Geologists think nature may have helped inspire the story.
There are multiple scientific theories to explain the events in the Bible. One possibility is that an earthquake in the seismically active Dead Sea region destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. In a variation of this idea, climate change may have brought a drought to the area — described as once-fertile but barren after God’s destruction — and an earthquake was the final blow that ruined an already crippled society. Another explanation is that an earthquake caused a flood that wiped out the cities....
...In Syria, southwest of Damascus, large basaltic flows date to within a millennium of the presumed age of the biblical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The flows originated from volcanoes along the Dead Sea transform fault system. Buried under one flow are two settlements with dwellings and numerous animal bones. Large gravesites near the lava are also consistent with a catastrophe. These findings and the paucity of archaeological evidence tying humans to the Dead Sea area at this time make a Syrian location for Sodom and Gomorrah more likely. Scholars, however, now think the story is an amalgamation of real places and occurrences rather than a single historical event.
Natural events, not an angel, and very unlikely it was 185,000.Over a thousand years, a lot of weird shit can happen. While I agree it's unlikely due to magic or "divine intervention", there have been cases before where a bunch of people, usually a village, in a low lying area were asphyxiated by toxic gas from a volcano.
The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is thought to be a conflation of natural events. In a land where 97% of the people were illiterate, word of mouth is how stories traveled. A few thousand years is a lot of campfire stories before Moses or someone else wrote them down.
Without literacy being a common trait, stories are told by word-of-mouth. It's a historical version of the campfire game "Gossip" AKA "Telephone".
Lake Nyos disaster, massive release of carbon dioxide from Lake Nyos in Cameroon on August 21, 1986. The disaster killed between 1,700 and 1,800 people.Lake Nyos disaster (1986) | Description, Deaths, & Facts | Britannica
The Lake Nyos disaster was a massive release of carbon dioxide from Lake Nyos in Cameroon on August 21, 1986. It killed between 1,700 and 1,800 people.
The Bible places Sodom and Gomorrah in the region of the Dead Sea, between what are now Israel and Jordan in the Middle East. Harris spent a decade working in the area. He became convinced the conditions there were right for a huge earthquake that would trigger a massive landslide. So complete would be the destruction, the event would pass into folklore.BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
Jessica Cecil explores the legend of sodom and Gamorrah.www.bbc.com
Geologists think nature may have helped inspire the story.
There are multiple scientific theories to explain the events in the Bible. One possibility is that an earthquake in the seismically active Dead Sea region destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. In a variation of this idea, climate change may have brought a drought to the area — described as once-fertile but barren after God’s destruction — and an earthquake was the final blow that ruined an already crippled society. Another explanation is that an earthquake caused a flood that wiped out the cities....
...In Syria, southwest of Damascus, large basaltic flows date to within a millennium of the presumed age of the biblical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The flows originated from volcanoes along the Dead Sea transform fault system. Buried under one flow are two settlements with dwellings and numerous animal bones. Large gravesites near the lava are also consistent with a catastrophe. These findings and the paucity of archaeological evidence tying humans to the Dead Sea area at this time make a Syrian location for Sodom and Gomorrah more likely. Scholars, however, now think the story is an amalgamation of real places and occurrences rather than a single historical event.
The story as it is told in Kings didn’t happen, it may have some kernel of truth, but it didn’t happen as the author writes it.
Kings is one book of the OT I have not studied.
Dutch Uncle
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Considering Kings was written over 2500 years ago, I can see how some inaccuracies could be included. Still, like the parting of the Red Sea, destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah or the Great Flood there are plausible natural causes for such events.
How many decades around the campfire were these stories told before a literate person wrote them down? Consider Aesop who lived around the same time as Kings was written in 6th century BCE. Did he write all of those fables or did he merely collect them and take the time to write them down? IMO, a lot of ancient stories existed long before being written down.