'This might sound delusional...'

[underpants]

Editor, Times-Dispatch: Although I have nothing personal against good Muslims since this is a free country -- Congressman Virgil Goode is obviously a good patriot and a believer in the United States' traditional values, and he sees elected Muslims as a threat to America. My hat is off to him!

This country was founded on Christian traditions and beliefs, not Islamic ones. Currently, about 87 percent of the population is Christian. If Muslim elected officials keep getting elected and insist on being sworn in on the Quran instead of the Bible, this tells me that those elected Muslim officials don't believe in the Christian traditions that made this country free in the first place.

It is an American honor and a privilege for any elected official to be sworn in on the Bible, and this tradition should never be considered an option. In the worst-case scenario: If more devout Muslims get elected and get sworn in on the Quran, would America have to start reverting to the teachings and philosophies of the Quran? This might sound delusional, but Goode has taken the right first step in keeping such a nightmare from becoming a possible reality. Gary Allen. colonial heights.



Editor, Times-Dispatch: Praise be to Congressman Virgil Goode for upholding the United States -- one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We are a melting pot of legal immigrants joined in one nation by taking the oath of allegiance to our Constitution. We receive justice under American law.

Whether we worship in mosques, synagogues, churches, or not at all, we follow American law and take oaths in the English language upon the Bible of the Founding Fathers. To do less in the name of false diversity would dissolve our one nation.

No to Islamic Shariah law. Yes to mosques and religious freedom. No to illegal immigration. Yes to a measured flow of foreign peoples seeking to become Americans in language, customs, and law. Jane Hogan. keysville.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&%09s=1045855935005&c=MGArticle&cid=1149192407878&path=%21editorials%21letters

[Virginia Dare]

1. Yes, in fact it does Mr. Allen (any relation???)...

and I would also add bigoted and ignorant. Thanks for sharing.

[baldguy]

2. Being a Christian is not and has never been necessary to be an American.

Believing in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, and the laws in the Constitution are necessary. These are America's sacred documents, not some foreign religious text.

BTW, I heard this morning that Rep Ellison will be administered his oath while holding a copy of the Quran - once owned by Thomas Jefferson.

[baldguy]

7. Art 6, Sec 3

Senators and Representatives ... shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required...

The Bible is never mentioned in the Constitution.

[underpants]

8. You heard correctly-Ellison will hold TJ's old copy

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2673508

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Disgusting! I'm so sick of being surrounded by delusional people who

have never bothered to study history, but will take the word of their local Christian-taliban preacher as absolute 'truth', that I'm counting down the days until I leave these shores for good!

[Lowell]

4. Delusional assclown for sure

doesn't he realize that the muslims are also the sons of Abraham?

[ChicagoRonin]

5. May I ask?

Where do Buddhists, Jews and atheists fit in Mr. Goode's view of U.S. citizenship?

[baldguy]

6. They don't

[Warpy]

9. For a devout Muslim, swearing on the Christian bible would be

like swearing on a toaster. They attach very little significance to it beyond recognizing it is as important to Christians as the Quran is to them.

Superstitious fools always think everyone should adopt their superstitions. They never realize it just doesn't work that way.

Besides, the delusional Mr. Goode and Times-Dispatch editor needn't get their drawers in too big a wad--Congress is sworn in on nothing more than a raised hand. The pictures with the bibles are purely ceremonial.

Oh, and for pity's sake, don't mention to either of these bigots that two Buddhists have been elected, too.

[underpants]

10. Warpy check this out (LMAO)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2673508

[jwirr]

11. So this idiot thinks that there were no Jews, atheists, or other

religious people in the colonies in 1776? He really is delusional.