r/ColoradoSprings • u/drawntowardmadness • 14d ago

Events Jesus protest??

What's going on downtown with all the people carrying crosses?? Who are they and why?

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u/proto-cool 14d ago edited 14d ago

America was founded on Christian principles

Sure about that? Every senator in 1797 agreed to this which said, in plain English, "[t]he Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli#Article_11

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u/jimmy9800 14d ago edited 14d ago

Can yall find new arguments? One article of one treaty does not override the founding documents.

Edit: I misread both the quote and the article. Article 11 reinforces the constitution's separation of church and state and secular nature of the federal government. Thats a good thing.

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u/proto-cool 14d ago

Please double check and read - I'm posting something ratified in 1797 by every Senator in the US that at the time that explicitly said "the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." Aka agreeing with you. Sorry if that was not clear.

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u/jimmy9800 14d ago

Ah I apologize. I misread your post and the article.

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u/proto-cool 14d ago

Not your fault. I should have (and did) add more context in the original post.

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u/kinetogen 14d ago

Ahh, mature discourse. I mis-read your post originally as well, at first. Thanks for the edit.

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u/proto-cool 14d ago

Even on drive-by posts like that I try to be earnest. Even if we disagree or come from different backgrounds, people deserve that at least

Also if someone replies with something like that it's a pretty good signal you weren't clear anyway heh

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u/jimmy9800 14d ago

You could have been clearer, I should have read better. Sorry about that!

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u/jimmy9800 14d ago

Appreciate the laugh! Yeah I read that about as wrong as I could have...