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I read everything, I think, but w/out quotes it is a bit confusing. As far as the Catholic thing, I was responding to this:

" and technically America WAS founded as a Christian nation...it may have been Catholic"

which I didn't understand b/c while there were Catholics here, there was a never a perception that we were a Catholic nation. I pointed out JFK b/c it was a big deal, at the time, that he was the first Catholic president & I think he even gave a speech about how his Catholic beliefs (nor the Pope) would influence his decisions.

what i meant was that in the very beginning Colombus had the intent of spreading his beliefs....finding America was not expected however there was an intent for us to become a Christian nation in the *very* beginning of it all. I said it may have been Catholic just b/c C.Colombus was. he was funded by the queen of spain after all. Now as for our founding fathers, there was a huge divide of Protestants & Catholics, etc. Their main goal was to get out from under the Kings/Queens to create their own nation of equality. not ALL of the beliefs of our founding fathers attributed this to God. our "creator" was mentioned purposely to be vague. the constitution further clarified things. our military fights for the constitution and it actually was "people" that we owe our freedom to. those would be our founding fathers. George W was Christian and said to be Catholic but i'm not sure if that is true or not. i do know that alot of our early colonies were either protestant or catholic in the beginning. both are denominations of Christianity ..since freedom of religion was a part of the constituion (10 years after the Declaration of Independance) - this changed everything. our founding fathers (no matter who's belief was what) had the intent of using the roman repulic as a model. so although the initial intent was a nation based on some form of Christianity, it was not so nor was the idea of freedom solely about Christianity. it was much more complex. it had more to do with economics, politics etc. yes i'm sure some Christian ideals were used but it was far from the sole purpose or reason.

Yes i realize JFK was Catholic and that was in question alot but i was not speaking of that far ahead at all.

Last night O'Reilly interviewed the father of the young man shot to death in AR. The man said he has been amazed at the outpouring of support from those in AR & around the country who have sent cards & also donated to Wounded Warriors in his sons' name. I think O'Reilly donated $50,000.

So even though it didn't receive that much coverage, people are responding to the families grief.

www.woundedwarriorproject.org/

O'Rielly Rocks !!!! IMO!! I watch him every weekend while @ work (theres not much else on after 2am!!)

i actually think he is a vile man, a bully, and doesn't get his facts straight, still have to acknowledge a good deed, i know he would never to that for a democrat, he would spin itsome negative way

i don't know that and all the networks reported he was a muslim
i am talking about what he said many times about dr. tiller, how he tried to bully joan walsh, she kept her cool and he wound up shouting like a fool, EJ we will never agree on this, so i think we should just raise the white flag,
i have to go now and do some housework, i will be back on later

He shouted because she was covering her arse! She knew he was right! I saw that one and all I saw was a stupid cow(since I an't say the b word)(Sorry but thats my honest opinion)trying to cover up facts with half truths! I applaud Bill for respecting life!!, too bad more don't!, but I guess that since in this day and age it's okay to throw away our children( because it's our choice) it's all good!! JMO!!

Like Bill Cosby says (but on different topics Wake up people!!!!

apparently we were not watching the same show, i saw a lady acting like a lady and i saw o'reily acting like a bully, he always bullies anyone who doesn't agree with him, i would like to see him try that crap on jessie ventura, he sure put hannity in his place

by the way, i know one thing we can agree on.....cats are the best!!!!

I think O'Reilly's best shouting match EVER was Barney Frank...good stuff. I sometimes disagree with O'Reilly, but he's just good at what he does. I mean his interview with Obama was one of the best ones before the election. We need people like O'Reilly...I mean can you imagine Olbermann interviewing Obama? Olbermann wouldn't be able to hide his erection.