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Thread #21447 Message #3132495
Posted By: Stringsinger
10-Apr-11 - 01:01 PM
Thread Name: Godless 'hymns' or Atheism Church Music?
Subject: RE: Godless 'hymns' or Atheism Church Music?
My last post didn't make it. Condensed it said hymns can be beautiful, my faves are African-American but they are irrelevant to any marriage ceremony depending on the wishes of the couple. Plenty of secular songs about love, social beneficence and humanity.
I essentially agree with Joe's cogent observation about atheists. The word "anti-theist"
might suggest an antipathy to those who are religious but most of the secular folks I know don't go there. Again, Separation of Church and State from the warnings of Madison and Jefferson are implied in the Constitution regardless of what Christine O'Donnel says.
Adams pointed it out very well in the treaty to the Mohammedan Nation, to whit,
"We are not a Christian nation".
He is still right.