[Buddha-l] S. Pinker (linguist, cognitive psychologist)

[SJZiobro at cs.com]

"Richard P. Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 09:17 -0400, Stanley J. Ziobro II wrote:
>
>> Your mention of a Buddhist running for President is an interesting
>> thought, however.  I wonder how that would play out in our nominally
>> Christian country.
>
>The United States is NOT a nominally Christian country. There is
>absolutely nothing in any of the legal documents on which this country
>is founded making it a Christian nation. It may be true that a majority
>of citizens south of the Mason-Dixon line are Christians, but there is
>such a large minority of non-Christians in the rest of the USA that it
>is offensive in the extreme to try to pass this nation off as being of
>any one religion. Please apologize immediately to the denizens of
>buddha-l or face deportation to an evangelical news group. And say 108
>Hail Marys to atone for your sin.

Richard,

I think your criteria for determining whether the USA is nominally a Christian country or not differ from mine or from the Founders.  The Hail Marys are a capital idea; I'll say them for your conversion, or at least honorable mention in the Vatican's secret files.  I think this covers everything.

Stan Ziobro