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The Samuel Thomson Lie
Keep this moving, good stuff speaks for itself.
Samuel Thompson wrote:
(Who is this Samuel Thomson anyway? I found this on the internet: THOMPSON, SAMUEL (1765-1843). Samuel Thompson, physician, participant in the Revolutionary War, and alumni of San Augustine Municipality, Texas, was born in 1765, the son of George Thompson of England. He was a resident of the Spartanburg District of South Carolina when he enlisted for service in the American Revolution in 1778 or 1779, at the age of thirteen or fourteen, under Capt. Joseph Wofford. He was an express carrier and wagoner and fought in the battle of Cowpens. Thompson married Precius Wofford after the war, and the couple owned three slaves. They sailed with other members of the Thompson family to Coahuila and Texas in1826. Dr. Thompson is listed in Stephen F. Austin’s register of families,and the first census of Texas enrolled him as a physician owning eighteen slaves. In 1834 and 1835 Thompson was alcalde in San Augustine. Thompson Academy was founded about 1839. The institution, about seven miles east of San Augustine, was donated by Thompson and named after him. He died in 1843 in San Augustine County and was buried on the original Thompson settlement.
I have some problems with Mr. Thompson: He was a slave owner. Where is it in the New Testament that says it’s ok to own slaves?)
I don’t believe in Santa Claus, but I’m not going to sue somebody for singinga Ho-Ho-Ho song in December.
Nor is it likely you would have heard such a song prior to 1900 ( you died in 1843)).
I don’t agree with Darwin, but I didn’t go out and hire a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his theory of evolution.
(Darwins theory was published in 1859, 16 years after your death, so your high schoolteacher could not have taught it to you.)
Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be endangered because someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game.
(But why do you want to? Did not Jesus say this: “And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.” (Matthew 6:5) Why do you insist on disobeying your own God’s command?) So what’s the big deal? It’s not like somebody is up there reading the entire book of Acts. They’re just talking to a God they believe in and asking him to grant safety to the players on the field and the fans going home from the game. “But it’s a Christian prayer,” some will argue. Yes, and this is the United States of America, a country founded on Christian principles.
(Au contraire: President John Adams declared: “The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” (But wait -there’s more: http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/myth.html)
And we are in the Bible Belt. According to our very own phone book, Christian churches outnumber all others better than 200-to-1. So what would you expect-somebody chanting Hare Krishna?
(Aside from the fact that you were dead before the telephone was invented: Yes, well, people marry their sisters and raise inbred spawn in the “Bible Belt” too. That doesn’t make it right. It only takes three to legally incorporate a church. If your phone book is like mine, many of those churches have fewer than 10 members each. And what is your definition of “Christian” anway? Most fundys don’t count Catholics, Episcopalians, Quakers, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Adventists, Methodists, and a variety of other denominations as “Christian” (unless they are counting churches to make a point that is). (According to the US Census, the population of the US in 2010 was 308.7 million. Of those, only 140,057,419 reported any religious affiliation at all, or about 50%. Of that figure, only 20,728,498 or 14.8%, reported that they were evangelical or fundamentalist (this figure includes some of the groups mentioned above as not being considered “Christian”, so it may ere towards being too high). Given that, only 5.83 % of Americans are likely to be of the born again variety. So your concerns are those of a very small minority.)(IF the United States is a “Christian Nation,” (using the fundy defintion of “Christian” ) why is it that 94.17% of the population isn’t?)
If I went to a football game in Jerusalem, I would expect to hear a Jewish prayer.
(You can expect a lot of things, I guess. They play soccer in Israel, not football, and, due to the variety of religions in Israel, no prayer of any kind is allowed at public events.)
If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad, I would expect to hear a Muslim prayer. (Not likely. Even BEFORE our invasion and occupation of Iraq, that country was one of the few middle eastern states that was sectarian.)
If I went to a ping pong match in China, I would expect to hear someone pray to Buddha.
(The officially atheist government of China would likely arrest and imprison anyone attempting to do so. )
And I wouldn’t be offended. It wouldn’t bother me one bit. When in Rome…”But what about the atheists?” is another argument. What about them? Nobody is asking them to be baptized. We’re not going to pass the collection plate. Just humor us for 30 seconds. If that’s asking too much, bring a Walkman or a pair of ear plugs. Go to the bathroom. Visit the concession stand. Call your lawyer. Unfortunately, one or two will make that call. One or two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do. I don’t think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake the world’s foundations.
(Again I ask: why do you want to? What about Matthew 6:5? Why are you such a hypocrite? ) Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek ….
(That’s tough, because that’s just what Jesus ordered you to do: ” And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; ..” (Luke 6:29))
…while our courts strip us of all our rights.
(The Bill of Rights grants you freedom of Religion – to worship as you please, It doesn’t give you the right to foist or parade your religion before others not of your faith. Not even Jesus gives you that right (again, I cite Matthew 6:5).)
Our parents and grandparents! taught us to pray before eating, to pray before we go to sleep. Our Bible tells us just to pray without ceasing.
(Yes, it does – in the privacy of your own home, or church, or closet…..)
Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease praying .
(…..No, just do so where I can’t hear or see you, as your savior intended. Follow your own rule book.) God, help us. And if that last sentence offends you, well……….just sue me.
(You’ve been dead 161+ years — Kind of hard to sue to a dead person don’t you think?)
The silent majority has been silent too long.. it’s time we let that one or two who scream loud enough to be heard, that the vast majority don’t care what they want.. it is time the majority rules!
(Gee, but I don’t believe 5.83% makes a majority…)
It’s time we tell them, you don’t have to pray.. you don’t have to say the pledge of allegiance, you don’t have to believe in God or attend services that honor Him. That is your right, and we will honor your right.. but by golly you are no longer going to take our rights away .. we are fighting back.. and we WILL WIN! After all the God you have the right to denounce is on our side!
(Sorry, This is a democracy. It’s about MAJORITY rule. 94.17% of Americans do not want to hear your public displays of hypocrisy.)
God bless us one and all, especially those who denounce Him… (No one is denouncing HIM. But who is HIM anyway? You act like your God is the only God around. There are thousands of them last I counted, depending on your ethnic background. )
God bless The United States, despite all her faults.. still the greatest nation of all…..
(I prefer Hashem to your codependant God any day. Thank you very much. I agree –this is the greatest nation of all. It’s the greatest because we believe in equality. We believe in freedom for ALL religious people, regardless of the deity or deities they worship. We are the greatest because we enforce the rightsof the majority to not have to hear the rantings of the minority.) God bless our service men who are fighting to protect our right to pray andworship God… (Yes, many of whom are Jewish, Moslem, Pagan, and Wiccan, and other religions you haveno respect for. Many of our service people (some are women you know) are Gay too. Last I read you would deny these who are shedding their blood for your big fat mouth their rights.)
May 2024 be the year the silent majority is heard and we put God back as the foundation of our families and institutions.
(Yes, whomever it is that they worship. Perhaps too the God of our founding fathers: the God of the deists, and Masons.)
Keep looking up…… In God WE Trust.
(That being our national motto, then the God we trust would be the God of our founding fathers, who were Masons and deists, and also the founders of Unitarian Universalism (by the way, you were LONG DEAD when that became our national motto)).
If you agree with this, please pass it on. If not, delete it!!
(I’d rather expose it for what it is: LIES. Not only LIES, but lies put in the mouth of someone who could never have said them. Someone who has been dead for 161 years! You’re no Christian. You’re no follower of Jesus. You’ve never read the New Testament, or you believe in it no more that I do. You’ve told wild lies here, advised other Christians to disobey their God, and also advised them to spread your lies. YOU, and others like YOU, are the main reason I am a Jew today.)
Life is an Adventure……Live it!
(Indeed! I AM!)
