- RT @TheEconomist What did the makers of America believe about God and religion? econ.st/tnHJ8g
- Jefferson excised all the mysticism from the Gospels to extract the philosophy. Washington referred to God obliquely and Jesus never.
- The founding fathers were "free-thinkers". After 1776 Jefferson and Madison broke the Anglican power base that existed in Virginia.
- The last thing the founding fathers believed in (besides a common theism) was doing things because some authority did it that way.
- Barton says Jefferson's "wall of separation" between state and church is one-way. Yeah, because that's the default state of a wall.
- @jephjacques The difference is, "failed" web comics still get read and can still make a name for the artist. BOOM
- #scifichat Intro: Paul Gadzikowski, writer/cartoonist http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com
- #scifichat A1 I think, if I have a favorite ice world, it must be Delta Vega from the most recent #StarTrek movie
- #scifichat The name of the Klingon prison planet is Rura Penthe
- #scifichat I know I've read or watched story(ies) on a planet with seasons that are centuries long, and winter's coming. Don't recall what.
- #scifichat @JLichtenberg I think Pern must be what I was thinking of. Been decades since I read some of those.
- #scifichat A3: I assume air, food and shelter are a given?
- #scifichat A3. I'd bring my laptop, a portable internet hotspot, and I'd let my wife bring eight things.
- #scifichat A4. How do we know the earth didn't create us because it WANTS styrofoam and global warming? #georgecarlin
- #scifichat @DavidRozansky arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/aajq.h
tm #firefly - #scifichat Must dash. Back next week - same scifi time, same scifi channel
- #scifichat @JLichtenberg The #TerraNova time travel is to a different timeline.
- #scifichat Avatar isn't a great movie, but it's an important movie
- Every time I build a buffer, eventually it dwindles away and I start to panic. Notwithstanding that I don't usually keep one.
- @feretthimself There's Prairie Dawn on Sesame Street.
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