America was not founded....

[midcan5]

So many myths dominate American discourse today and religion is one of the big sticks.

“the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

"Speaking at a rally on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on May 16, 1920, Baptist theologian George Washington Truett proudly declared that the separation of church and state was “preeminently a Baptist achievement.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...74d_story.html

"The Real Origins of the Religious Right - They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.""

https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...origins-107133

"But the abortion myth quickly collapses under historical scrutiny. In fact, it wasn’t until 1979—a full six years after Roe—that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but as a rallying-cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term. Why? Because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools."

"The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on earth." Jimmy Carter


"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State." Edward Abbey

[Chris]

What's the topc, if I might ask?

[pjohns]

So many myths dominate American discourse today and religion is one of the big sticks.

“the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

"Speaking at a rally on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on May 16, 1920, Baptist theologian George Washington Truett proudly declared that the separation of church and state was “preeminently a Baptist achievement.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...74d_story.html

"The Real Origins of the Religious Right - They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.""

https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...origins-107133

"But the abortion myth quickly collapses under historical scrutiny. In fact, it wasn’t until 1979—a full six years after Roe—that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but as a rallying-cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term. Why? Because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools."

"The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on earth." Jimmy Carter


"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State." Edward Abbey

(1) The matter of segregated schools (or segregated anything) was determined by the SCOTUS in 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education.

(2) To refer to the abolition of abortion (which is relatively "safe" nowadays--but hardly "rare," as pro-choice advocates once claimed to believe in) as "compulsory maternity" is pretty good bumper-sticker logic; but not exactly deep thought. (It conveniently ignores the question of whether the fetus inside of the mother is a separate human life--rather than just a part of the mother's own body.)

[nic34]

^^ now theres some of that good ol christian concern for women

[Kalkin]

What's the topc, if I might ask?

Attack christianity to facilitate marxism.

[Mister D]

^^ now theres some of that good ol christian concern for women

Why don't you regale us with some stories about Injun squaws? lol

[Mister D]

Attack christianity to facilitate marxism.

Nah. The OP is kind of like a progressive march. You're just like...what the $#@! is this even about?

[Devil'sAdvocate]

^^ now theres some of that good ol christian concern for women

Women don't even exist outside of a 'religion', Christianity or otherwise, or some secular surrogate thereof.

[Chris]

[Devil'sAdvocate]

What is a woman, or anything - but an arrangement of material particles?

Matter cannot be created or destroyed, so when a woman "dies", nothing really "dies" anyway, other than the illusion that a "woman" even existed to begin with outside of one's mind.