Protecting Personal Property from Thugs

[terryg]

Why is Magnum, P.I. smoking a pipe?

Now...that's funny...I don't care who you are...that's funny right there.

[Purplehood]

I know exactly how to fix this, but atheists would have a problem with it, and it is probably unconstitutional anyway. As John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” So when you ban religion from the public square, and when you assign depravity as a constitutional right, and when you enable government to usurp the personal responsibilities of the individual, this is what you get.

Welcome to it.

Think before you speak, sir. Like any group, and/or religion there are good & bad that come out of each. I find it funny you don't bring up any of the Deist founding fathers of ours.

I can tell you that some of these men were NOT atheists. Atheism is a non-belief in God. Many people who want to try and portray Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin as atheists only do so in the fact that they rarely or never mentioned Jesus in any of their writings. However, you will find they frequently mention God. Neither did most other people of their time. So, while they may not have been followers of or espoused the mainstream Christan following of Jesus, they in fact DID believe in God. One example for is that Washington and Franklin were Masons, and I can guarantee you they would not have been members if they didn't believe.

I thought that Masons simply had to believe in a Supreme Being?

[Keith B]

I thought that Masons simply had to believe in a Supreme Being?

Still off topic, but yes, that is correct. However, what I was trying to infer was that the three I mentioned had used God in their writings, and they were Masons. So, that meant that they were not atheists and must have believed in God as their supreme being due to their writings. Others Masons may have a belief in a different supreme being; Allah or Buddha for example.