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Re:We are desensitized to Christianity’s influence on Wester... by dragonwriter on Saturday May 01, 2021 @12:17PM (#27007472)
> The original Constitution says that our “unalienable rights” are a result not of secular rationalism, but rather an omnipotent God who endows us with those rights.

No, it doesn’t. The author confuses apropaganda document (the Declaration of Independence, which still doesn’t make this specific claim—it does reference rights being endowed by a Creator, but does not specifically attribute omnipotence to that Creator) with a governing document (which comes nowhere close, making only a vague reference to the “blessings of liberty” in its preamble.)

> To that end, the pillars of American law rest as much on the Bible as on the writings of Enlightenment thinkers.

Even aside from the content supporting this not being in the document in question at all, “As much as” is trivially false; the authors of the Constitution were Enlightenment thinkers themselves, so if it had any Biblical influence at all, it could only be subordinate to and by way of Enlightenment thinkers.

> When it comes to space, “The West” is any place to the West of where Christ was crucified.

No, while it was a Christian geographic reference before being replaced with a Cold War one, the reference was to the geography where the dominant religion after the East-West Schism was Roman Catholic.

Re:We are desensitized to Christianity’s influence on Wester... by Anointmous on Saturday May 01, 2021 @02:06PM (#27008398)
"An Appeal to the "Supreme Judge of the World"

Like I said, most of the commentators aren't even from America. But they sure are commenting like they were.

Re:We are desensitized to Christianity’s influence on Wester... by dragonwriter on Saturday May 01, 2021 @03:01PM (#27008855)
> An Appeal to the "Supreme Judge of the World"

That’s also in the Declaration, not the Constitution, and also does not include the author’s description of omnipotence.

> Like I said, most of the commentators aren't even from America.

That’s...both unsupported and a particularly bizarre ad hominem, but I am an American (and, probably more relevant, have a degree in political science with a course of study focussed on the American system), but its not like the main problem claims about the US system here require particular expertise beyond, you know, reading the readily-available text of foundational documents.

> But they sure are commenting like they were.

I’m not sure what “commenting like they were [Americans]” means in this context.

Re:We are desensitized to Christianity’s influence on Wester... by minimal1 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @03:23PM (#27009046)
"(the Declaration of Independence, which still doesn’t make this specific claim—it does reference rights being endowed by a Creator, but does not specifically attribute omnipotence to that Creator)".

I'm sure the reference was to Supreme Judge of the World, and no omnipotence. You need to write more carefully.