What Exactly is "American Culture"?
- Thread starter Arthur Brain
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According to this article North Dakota has the best "quality of life";
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-news-best-states-quality-of-life-ranked-2018-2
ok doser
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Those long cold winters have kept North Dakota Alligator free.
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States with highest quality of life:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/05/u-s-news-world-report-the-top-10-states-in-america.html
Mostly, but not exclusively, blue to purple.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/05/u-s-news-world-report-the-top-10-states-in-america.html
Mostly, but not exclusively, blue to purple.
Arthur Brain
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Bacon!
Arthur Brain
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Jefferson’s pluralistic vision
Was Jefferson thinking about Muslims when he drafted his famed Virginia legislation?
Indeed, we find evidence for this in the Founding Father’s 1821 autobiography, where he happily recorded that a final attempt to add the words “Jesus Christ” to the preamble of his legislation failed. And this failure led Jefferson to affirm that he had intended the application of the Statute to be “universal.”
By this he meant that religious liberty and political equality would not be exclusively Christian. For Jefferson asserted in his autobiography that his original legislative intent had been “to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan [Muslim], the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination.”
By defining Muslims as future citizens in the 18th century, in conjunction with a resident Jewish minority, Jefferson expanded his “universal” legislative scope to include every one of every faith.
Ideas about the nation’s religiously plural character were tested also in Jefferson’s presidential foreign policy with the Islamic powers of North Africa. President Jefferson welcomed the first Muslim ambassador, who hailed from Tunis, to the White House in 1805. Because it was Ramadan, the president moved the state dinner from 3:30 p.m. to be “precisely at sunset,” a recognition of the Tunisian ambassador’s religious beliefs, if not quite America’s first official celebration of Ramadan.
https://theconversation.com/why-jeffersons-vision-of-american-islam-matters-today-78155
Was Jefferson thinking about Muslims when he drafted his famed Virginia legislation?
Indeed, we find evidence for this in the Founding Father’s 1821 autobiography, where he happily recorded that a final attempt to add the words “Jesus Christ” to the preamble of his legislation failed. And this failure led Jefferson to affirm that he had intended the application of the Statute to be “universal.”
By this he meant that religious liberty and political equality would not be exclusively Christian. For Jefferson asserted in his autobiography that his original legislative intent had been “to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan [Muslim], the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination.”
By defining Muslims as future citizens in the 18th century, in conjunction with a resident Jewish minority, Jefferson expanded his “universal” legislative scope to include every one of every faith.
Ideas about the nation’s religiously plural character were tested also in Jefferson’s presidential foreign policy with the Islamic powers of North Africa. President Jefferson welcomed the first Muslim ambassador, who hailed from Tunis, to the White House in 1805. Because it was Ramadan, the president moved the state dinner from 3:30 p.m. to be “precisely at sunset,” a recognition of the Tunisian ambassador’s religious beliefs, if not quite America’s first official celebration of Ramadan.
https://theconversation.com/why-jeffersons-vision-of-american-islam-matters-today-78155
annabenedetti
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Who reported him and for what? You?
ok doser
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annabenedetti
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:yawn:
ok doser
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Yes, i did it!
I reported him!
I reported him and I'm proud of it!
And I'd do it again!
Bwahahahaha !
glorydaz
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Artie is an offender. He dishes it out, but he can't take it. You reap what you sow, folks.
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