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Jsc wrote:If they wanted to create a Christian nation, they could have done so, but they didn't.
Prior to the Declaration of Independence, and then the drawing up of the Constitution, the settlers already HAD an overwhelmingly Christian land.
That was the foundation the people set down in this new land.
Like it or not, that's what it was.

The territory that would make up the colonies was made up overwhelmingly of Protestants.
The colonies had state supported Christianity.

The drawing up of the Constitution, and then the 1st Amendment, solidified the freedom of the people to continue to pursue the Christianity that they had chosen.
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Diego wrote:As to the state religions, do you really think that there were people lining up left & right to litigate the issue? Probably as many people that were lining up to sue over the freedom of black people. Just because it took a while to get things corrected doesn't mean that what happened in the beginning was constitutional.
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When they wrote up the 1st Amendment, they could have written it so that it STOPPED the states from their church/state operations, but they did NOT.
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I have not said that we are a Christian nation.

I've pointed out that this is false...


bible thumpers who falsely believe this country was founded on christian beliefs.....it wasn't.

- Felix


And I said this...
poptart wrote:Not content that their secularism has taken root (and produced very ugly things), the lib must take it further and deny that the country was even founded upon a backbone of Christian faith.

Jsc wrote:this country is about religious freedom
Hogwash.
Not now.

At it's beginning, it was.
Those people used that freedom to build communities centered on the Christian Church.
That was our foundation as a nation.
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poptart wrote:Not content that their secularism has taken root (and produced very ugly things), the lib must take it further and deny that the country was even founded upon a backbone of Christian faith.
secularism was at the foundation of this country.....it didn't take root, it's the law of the land to let anyone practice any religion they want, they just don't want it influencing federal law....the US isn't the only country that was smart enough to recognize the potentiial havoc that would be created by a government that was founded on religious principles......Canada, China, Germany, Ireland, Turkey, the Phillipines all have laws similar to our first amendment, allowing residents to practice whatever religion they want, and don't allow it to influence governmental decisions......you say secularism has produced ugly things? Like what? Look you don't want to go down that path otherwise I'll hit you upside the head with the Crusades and the various Inquistions (Christian, Roman, Portugese, and Spanish).....in the current climate, "christians" have been murdering physcians that perform abortions, attempted murder of physcians, kidnapping, stalking, assault, not to mention all of the property damage (blowing up clinics) these "christians" have been involved with....does it get much worse than that?

sorry, you christers want to take credit for the foundations established by our forefathers, but when the first law of a new constitution says no establishment of a church, that pretty much says it all.....so take your christianity and stick to it, just don't bother me with it and we'll have no problems.....
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poptart wrote:
Diego wrote:As to the state religions, do you really think that there were people lining up left & right to litigate the issue? Probably as many people that were lining up to sue over the freedom of black people. Just because it took a while to get things corrected doesn't mean that what happened in the beginning was constitutional.
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When they wrote up the 1st Amendment, they could have written it so that it STOPPED the states from their church/state operations, but they did NOT.
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Thomas Jefferson in his letter to the Danbury Baptist Church wrote:Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
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That's about a $17k to $21k guitar....seems to be in pretty good shape too
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Felix wrote:secularism was at the foundation of this country.....it didn't take root, it's the law of the land to let anyone practice any religion they want, they just don't want it influencing federal law
You are lying -- or as has already been demonstrated in this thread, are very ignorant.
Maybe both.

They just didn't want religious belief influencing federal law?

lol

Complete baloney.

That's not what the text says, Felix.
You are making things up.
Telling fairy tales.

It says...
Congress shall make no law respecting an ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION.

They wanted no national religion to be saddled on the people against their will.

It doesn't say jack squat about religious beliefs not being allowed to influence federal law.


Secularism was not at the foundation of the country.
As had to be pointed out to you, the colonies, and then the states, vigorously PURSUED Christianity as chosen by the people of the given states -- prior to the Constitution.

The Constitution was then drawn up to guarantee the people the freedom to continue this.
And even as the 1st Amendment (which has been completely bastardized in recent decades) was added, it allowed this to continue at the state level, even though they could have stopped the states from it if they wanted to.
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poptart wrote:They wanted no national religion to be saddled on the people against their will.

It doesn't say jack squat about religious beliefs not being allowed to influence federal law.
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Oh?
Then cite the text.

Show us where it says that religious beliefs are not allowed to influence federal law?


This just in: Religious Beliefs have influenced federal law FROM THE START OF THE NATION.

And it continues on to this very day.


Laws have always been based on someone's view of morality.
A lawmaker can arrive at his view of morality based on many different sensibilities and/or sources.
His faith, his convictions, things he's read, things he's heard, things he's seen, the Bible, Oprah, Southpark, Tom Clancy, Jon Stewart, the writings of Socrates, the Quran... and on and on...

There is no thought police law in the Constitution which prohibits a lawmaker from basing a YEA or NAY vote in part (or whole) on his religious belief.


Step into reality any day now, Diego.
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Papa Willie wrote:Actually - I checked on eBay, and he could possibly ask upwards to $25-30k for it. It had been played a lot, but had been VERY well taken care of. All original other than a fret job a few years back. That trapeze piece was weird (it keeps the heel of your hand above the strings), but I actually started getting used to it. This guy's grandfather had bought it new back in '52. Sounded awesome!
yeah 52's were pretty nice....I've never played one myself, the oldest I've ever played was a 57 Black Beauty, but my buddy that owns all of the guitars tells me he had a 52 and the sound of it was amazing....I think the guy he traded it to (got a 57 Strat Sunburst straight up) may have fucked it up trying to do some modifications to it......why anybody with limited skills would try and fuck with a vintage instrument like that is simply mind boggling.....
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Pastortart....here's some reading for you....

Editor's note: "Mark Edwards teaches U.S. history and politics at Spring Arbor University in Michigan. He is the author of "The Right of the Protestant Left: God's Totalitarianism.""

(CNN)Was America founded as a Christian nation?

That question has served a variety of political causes since July 4, 1776, from legalizing persecution and aiding runaway slaves to fighting Nazis and Communists.

The scholars below have spent years reflecting on the intersection of American religion and nationalism. Their answers to the question invite us to examine the motivations behind the controversy: Why do so many people think the country's Christian history is so important?

Amanda Porterfield is a professor of religion at Florida State University. Her most recent book is "Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation."

If we are talking about 13 colonies belonging to the British Empire, whose king presided over an imperial church, then yes, British citizens residing in those colonies lived under Christian rule.

Those colonies were founded as outposts of a Christian nation. With American independence, however, the British monarchy lost control over its American subjects. Champions of American liberty then celebrated their religious as well as political independence.

In the popular pamphlet some historians credit with overcoming American hesitance about severing ties with Britain, "Common Sense," Thomas Paine cheered freedom from the "degradation and lessening of ourselves" under British rule, proclaiming "monarchy in every instance" to be "the Popery of government."

Hostile to the political theology of both the Catholic Church and Protestant kings, Paine celebrated a vision for America that reflected the democratic god of nature and reason.

Paine was more outspoken and less diplomatic in his religious skepticism than others.

Most notably, Thomas Jefferson sought common ground with Baptists who resented government establishment of religion. And Jefferson contributed voluntarily to his local parish after Virginia law no longer required him to do so, even though his own philosophic views were closer to atheism than Paine's.

Jefferson explained his support for religious freedom in practical terms: "(I)t does me no injury for my neighbor to believe in twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

Outside New England, American churches at the time of the founding of the United States were relatively small and few in number, and many clerics were at least ambivalent about cutting ties with Britain.

Patriots suspected Methodists and Quakers of being British loyalists: Methodists because of their historic ties to the Church of England and Quakers because of their connections to British commerce. Rates of church membership declined in the revolutionary era and many church buildings, especially in the South, stood in need of repair.

While New England Congregational ministers preached sermons defending American political liberty, and Presbyterian ministers in the middle colonies made important contributions to ideas about republican government, enthusiasm for new birth in Christ was relatively low everywhere.

Soldiers in the Continental Army were notoriously irreverent. Free thought and even feminism rose in popularity.

Only after the violent attacks on religion in the French Revolution did alarm about the low level of religion in America escalate and enthusiasm for religion catch fire.

When deism and open ridicule of religion became popular among college students, physicians, and Western settlers in the 1790s, evangelical Christianity gained popularity as a reactive force against atheism and a source for new constructions of American nationhood.

Evangelical efforts to make America a Christian nation justified territorial expansion, while division over slavery solidified competing visions of Christian nationhood.

Today's claims about America's founding as a Christian nation derive from this 19th-century effort to overcome the skeptical reasoning and secular principles so important in the nation's founding.

Steven K. Green teaches law and history at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He is the author of the recent book, "Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding."

If, by the question, one is asking whether the Founding Fathers relied on Protestant Christian principles in drafting the essential documents and in organizing the new governments, then the answer is a resounding "no."

The writings of the period (1765-1790), including speeches, debates, letters, pamphlets, and even sermons, reflect the overwhelming influence of Enlightenment, Whig, and classical republican theories.

The political events of the period also support the conclusion that the founders intended to institute a secular-based form of governance.

In a short span of 16 years (1775-1791), the nation was transformed from maintaining religious establishments in nine of 13 colonies to achieving disestablishment at the national level and in 10 new states (or 11, depending on how one views Vermont).

At the same time, the United States became the first nation in history to abolish religious disqualifications from officeholding and civic engagement. The founders purposely created a nation that based its legitimacy on popular will, not on some higher power.

If one refines the question to ask whether the Founding Fathers were motivated to act as they did based on their Christian faith, the answer becomes a little murkier, but the response is still "no."

Many of the leading founders were theological liberals who approached religion from a rational perspective.

Even though we have come to appreciate that other founders held more conventional Christian beliefs, all of them, including many clergy of the day, perceived little conflict between their religious faith and Enlightenment natural rights.

By the time of the Revolution, ideas of providence and of America's millennial role had been modified, if not secularized, by Enlightenment rationalism.

If Benjamin Franklin, the only self-professed deist among the leading founders, could believe in God's general providential plan for the United States, then the ubiquitous references to God's interposing providence tell us little about the influence of distinctive religious thought on the founding generation.

If, finally, the meaning of the question is whether Christian impulses and rhetoric existed during the founding period and impacted the "great debate" about revolution and republican governance, then the answer is "yes" (although the question would then lose its distinctiveness at this level of abstraction).

Without question, non-Anglican clergy rallied to the patriot cause and justified the Revolution and new government on religious terms. Similarly, political leaders employed religious rhetoric to explain and legitimize their efforts.

However, the use of religious discourse at such a momentous time -- for distinguishing one's cause from the enemy during war and for rallying popular support for one's side -- is hardly surprising.

The majority of the founders also believed that religion was necessary for maintaining moral virtue and assumed that the nation would remain culturally Christian.

But people should be cautious about reading too much into the religious rhetoric during the founding period.

From where did the idea of America's founding as a Christian nation arise? In a nutshell, it arose in the early 19th century as later generations of Americans sought to establish a national identity, one that distinguished and exemplified the founding by sanctifying the nation's origins.

This is the origin of the "Christian nation" myth.

Kevin M. Kruse, professor of history at Princeton University, is author of the recent book "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America."

Demographically speaking, America certainly resembled a "nation of Christians" at the time of its founding and has ever since. But it's a rather different proposition to claim that the founders established the new American government as a "Christian nation." Clearly, they did not.

To be sure, the Declaration of Independence appealed to "the laws of Nature and Nature's God" and asserted that all men had basic rights "endowed by their Creator." But the Constitution -- the document that actually enumerated and enshrined those rights -- lacked even those vaguely drawn references to a deity.

The closest approximation came in its date, which was presented, in the standard style of the 18th century, "in the Year of our Lord." (Even that lone mention was a late addition, as the draft voted on at the Constitutional Convention lacked any reference to the Lord.)

Meanwhile, in the text of the Constitution, religion was deliberately kept at arm's length from the state. In radical departures from the era's norms, there would be no religious tests for federal officeholders, no establishment of any national religion and no congressional interference with individual citizens' free exercise of their own faith.

This was no accident. Despite their respect for religion and their belief in the divine origins of human rights, many of the Founding Fathers worried that religion would corrupt the state and, conversely, that the state would corrupt religion.

In his longest rumination on the topic in the Federalist Papers, for instance, James Madison challenged the idea that religion in politics would lead men to "cooperate for their common good" and asserted instead that it would make them "vex and oppress each other."

Accordingly, Madison praised the new Constitution for keeping faith out of federal officeholding, which would welcome individuals "of every description, whether native or adoptive, whether young or old, and without regard to poverty or wealth, or to any particular profession of religious faith."

If the founders had not made their stance on this "Christian nation" issue clear enough in the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they certainly did in the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli.

Begun by George Washington, signed by John Adams and ratified unanimously by a Senate still half-filled with signers of the Constitution, this treaty announced firmly and flatly to the world that "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."

Despite the founders' intent, later generations of Americans began to assert that the country they created was indeed Christian.

Though the idea originated in the early 19th century, it wasn't until the mid-20th that it became a fixed part of politics and government.

During the 1950s, new slogans and ceremonies -- rhetoric like "one nation under God" in the Pledge and "In God We Trust" as the national motto, as well as rites like the National Day of Prayer and National Prayer Breakfast -- convinced many Americans that their country had been, and always would be, a formally Christian nation.

John Fea teaches history at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. He is the author of "Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction."

Such a question is inevitably asking a historian to take a debate which did not reach any degree of intensity until the 1980s and superimpose it on the 18th-century world of the men who built the American republic.

The Founding Fathers lived in a world that was fundamentally different from our own. It was a world in which there was largely only one religious game in town -- Christianity.

Yes, there were some tiny Jewish communities located in seaport towns, and it is likely that a form of Islam was practiced among African slaves, but much of the culture was defined by the powerful influence of Christianity, especially Protestant Christianity.

The founders also had very divergent views about the relationship between Christianity and the nation they were forging. As I tell my students, we need to stop treating them as a monolithic whole.

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were strong advocates for the complete separation of church and state. John Adams and George Washington believed that religion was essential to the cultivation of a virtuous citizenry, an essential trait of any successful republic.

It is true that the founders, by virtue of the fact that they signed the Declaration of Independence, probably believed in a God who presided over nature, was the author of human rights, would one day judge the dead and governed the world by his providence.

Those who signed the United States Constitution endorsed the idea that there should be no religious test -- Christian or otherwise -- required to hold federal office.

Those responsible for the First Amendment also championed the free exercise of religion and rejected a government-sponsored church.

Yet anyone who wants to use the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to argue against the importance of religion in the American founding must reckon with all those state constitutions -- such as those of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and South Carolina -- that require officeholders to affirm the inspiration of the Old and New Testaments, obey the Christian Sabbath or contribute tax money to support a state church.

It is clear that some of the founders wanted only Christians to be running their state governments. Other founders rejected the idea of the separation of church and state. Virginia rejected all test oaths and religious establishments.

History is complex. It does not conform easily to the kinds of "yes" or "no" answers that most Americans want when they ask whether America was founded a Christian nation.

Here's a better question: Is America a Christian nation now?

On this question there is a lot more evidence to sustain a "no" answer.

Ray Haberski is a professor of history and American studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. His most recent book is "God and War: American Civil Religion since 1945."

America was not founded as a Christian nation; take a look at the Constitution. The more interesting question is whether America is a Christian nation.

For the better part of its history, the United States and the most prominent form of Christianity in America, mainline Protestantism, were intertwined. Until relatively recently, almost every major issue had either Christian connotations or developed in opposition to Christian dominance.

People on opposing sides of slavery and the Civil War prayed to the same God. American imperialists deployed God to justify national expansion abroad, while American anti-imperialists employed God to challenge that expansion.

In educational systems across the nation and throughout American history, Americans have battled over the role that Christianity should play in the lives of their children and communities.

And in a litany of social policies, from prisons to the welfare state to abortion, Christianity shaped and informed debates.

Yet this is no longer the case. After World War II the national landscape changed, and the culture-shaping force that Christianity once exerted -- through the political, financial and intellectual dominance of mainline Protestants -- disappeared.

The decline of this group's influence led to changes in the narratives Americans spun about their nation's founding and its "essential" nature. On the national stage, archetypes changed: Billy Graham replaced Reinhold Niebuhr, a Catholic won the presidency, and Martin Luther King Jr. became a national hero.

New voices led to new movements, including the activism of the religious right, the prominence of what we call the "nones" and the remarkable changes in the perception of same-sex marriage.

A new national narrative emerged: one that no longer assumed America was Christian, but rather debated the Christian nature of the nation itself.

The moment that punctuated the end of Christian America was the 1984 publication of Richard John Neuhaus' "The Naked Public Square."

This book certified Neuhaus as a recognizable religious public intellectual and placed him at the center of a debate over the future of America's religious heritage.

Once a Lutheran minister, Neuhaus converted to Catholicism in the early 1990s and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest. His personal history echoed the crisis profiled in his book: the decline of Protestant power within and over U.S. history had left the American public square stripped of a transcendent authority.

Politics, Neuhaus suggested again and again, "is unavoidably a moral concept, and that means the religiously grounded moral convictions of the American people cannot be excluded from the public square."

Yet to the end of his life (he died in 2009), Neuhaus' work was one of creation rather than affirmation or reclamation.

A culture warrior as well as priest and public intellectual, Neuhaus demonstrated with more clarity than any "village atheist" that the idea of Christian America was a fiction in search of believers.
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But people should be cautious about reading too much into the religious rhetoric during the founding period.
:lol: :lol:

Oh yes, of course we better do that.


The Founding Fathers lived in a world that was fundamentally different from our own. It was a world in which there was largely only one religious game in town -- Christianity.
That's right.


Again, here's Felix' statement...

"bible thumpers who falsely believe this country was founded on christian beliefs.....it wasn't."


Did the founders create a theocracy?

Of course not.
I've never claimed it.
I've never claimed they created a Christian nation.

The nation of people they began WAS an overwhelming Christian nation.

The early people of the nation WERE Christian people, overwhelmingly.
Then the founding document was set up to allow the people to continue on with the foundation they had already laid down.


A good deal of this discussion gets tangled up in semantics.
And some of it gets tangled up because libs want to try to strengthen their hand today.
So they try to revise history -- in hopes that idiots buy into their bullshit.
Many do.
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Arrogant Christian is always good for a laugh.

They always boast of their "Christian Principles." They seem to think that every other religion on earth doesn't embrace the same principles, along with the atheists out there.

Did Jesus tell you to be a smug, arrogant, ignorant idiot, or did you interpret that on your own?
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There is a strong tendency for religions to have similar morals to Christianity.

Look at the nation.

- Department of Education
- "You are an animal"
- Abortion
- Feminism
- Homosexuality

Someone(s) are pursuing these thing, and it's not the Christians.


Am I the arrogant one?

I am in need of a Savior.
Absolutely.

You?
You've got it all covered, right?
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As an outsider, I find it hard to get my head around the fetishisation Americans apply to the "cult of the Founding Fathers"...

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It's almost like you're compelled to promote some sort of supernatural characteristic in anything you adopt or study.
Like, the laboratory of human thought and development is incomplete or dry...until you massage it with childish fantasy.
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poptart wrote:Am I the arrogant one?

I am in need of a Savior.
Absolutely.

You?
You've got it all covered, right?
No, no arrogance there at all. :meds:

Whether others have it covered is none of your damn business.
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poptart wrote: You?
You've got it all covered, right?
Yes, but thanks for your concern.
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Jsc wrote:Pop, you do realize that you do not speak for all Christians, don't you?
Of course -- and it should go without saying that in listing those things and saying Christians are not pursuing them, I was talking about generally speaking.

Look at the list.

Surely you're not going to say that overall, it's been Christians who have pursued these thing.
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Marty wrote:As an outsider, I find it hard to get my head around the fetishisation Americans apply to the "cult of the Founding Fathers"...
I understand what you're saying.

Personally, I don't elevate them above what they were.
Some of them were outstanding people.

They gave us the foundation of our law, so we ought to follow it.

We haven't been.

18 trillion in debt is the most clear and easy illustration of our lawlessness.


The country is in serious trouble.
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poptart wrote:There is a strong tendency for religions to have similar morals to Christianity.

Am I the arrogant one?
sorry to be the one to burst your bubble but yeah, you're the arrogant one.....you're implying that because I don't believe in the make believe deity you (or any other religious types) believe in that I'm somehow amoral....

fuck you and the 4 horsemen of the apocolypse you rode in on.......
Look at the nation.

- Department of Education
- "You are an animal"
- Abortion
- Feminism
- Homosexuality

Someone(s) are pursuing these thing, and it's not the Christians.
one of these things is not like the others.....want to take a crack at it?
why are you and your christian ilk so hung up on what others do, whether it's abortion, feminism or homosexuality? I realize that all religions have done their best to make sexuality something that "decent folk" don't talk about, but why do you care what two gay guys in Tampa Florida do? How is that harming you or anyone else for that matter? Why is it that religions hate women so badly?
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Felix wrote:sorry to be the one to burst your bubble but yeah, you're the arrogant one.....you're implying that because I don't believe in the make believe deity you (or any other religious types) believe in that I'm somehow amoral....
I didn't say you are amoral.

You have some different morals than I do.

why are you and your christian ilk so hung up on what others do, whether it's abortion, feminism or homosexuality? I realize that all religions have done their best to make sexuality something that "decent folk" don't talk about, but why do you care what two gay guys in Tampa Florida do? How is that harming you or anyone else for that matter? Why is it that religions hate women so badly?
Why do religions hate women so badly?

1) I don't consider Christianity to be a religion. It is a faith. 2) I don't hate women. I love women and I love my wife.

I really have no idea where the "You hate women" charge comes from.
Your imagination, I suppose.


Why are we hung up on... abortion?

50+ million have been snuffed out, Felix.
Very bad.
Very.
Our country should be a LOT better than that.
We know better.


Feminism?
I believe in equal rights and I believe in freedom.
I think that generally speaking, there are roles which men and women are best suited to naturally assume.

Feminist ideology (particularly in more extreme variety) is harmful to women, men and the family.
That just happens to be my view.


Homosexual marriage?
As I've said, marriage is of community concern.
It is thousands of years old and it is man/woman.
It is what it is.

If you want to come around and radically turn it on it's head, it has MAJOR impact on the community which I am a part of.
So I will naturally give my takes on it.
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Spray, I kid you not, I just googled "best electric guitar ever" and most sites came up with that.

Getting to play that is nearly on par with playing a Stradivarius. You lucky bastard ya.
What were we just talking about?
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Re: Let The Meltage Begin!

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Papa Willie wrote:
Felix wrote:I think the guy he traded it to (got a 57 Strat Sunburst straight up) may have fucked it up trying to do some modifications to it......why anybody with limited skills would try and fuck with a vintage instrument like that is simply mind boggling.....
Just so you know - I cringed when I read that. :cry: Couldn't agree more with you.
I mean sure trade out the pickups if you want (hell I can do that) but fucking with the cosmetics of a guitar like that is beyond stupid......
Roger_the_Shrubber wrote:Spray, I kid you not, I just googled "best electric guitar ever" and most sites came up with that.

Getting to play that is nearly on par with playing a Stradivarius. You lucky bastard ya.
doesn't surprise me in the least.....Gibson Les Pauls are one of the easiest electrics to play and produce sound that is unique to other guitars (the Fender Strat is also a very identifiable sound)....the action on a Les Paul is really really nice, and I'm not even an electric player....I've fucked around with electrics but I'm strictly an acoustic guy......but I've spent time playing some of my buddies guitars and it's kind of a toss up between the Les Paul and the Strat....it's primarily the sound you're looking for that separates the Gibson from the Fender

the 57 I played was one of the coolest guitars I've ever had the privilege to play.....I also played a 58 and a 59, both of them very similar in playability, ease of set up, kept in tune no matter how much string bending you did which to me was the most remarkable of all.....I was pushing the b and e strings all over the place and it never lost tune....that was most impressive
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Papa Willie wrote:
Felix wrote:I think the guy he traded it to (got a 57 Strat Sunburst straight up) may have fucked it up trying to do some modifications to it......why anybody with limited skills would try and fuck with a vintage instrument like that is simply mind boggling.....
Just so you know - I cringed when I read that.
A lot of us cringe when we read a Felix post. I think it's all those ................
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