This week, on the Faith and Skepticism podcast, will the world really end on December 21st? We take a look at some of the common myths surrounding the popular doomsday predictions, and why people believe them. We also look at the supposed War on Christmas. Are atheists trying diminish Christmas?
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I just listened to this episode and I thought you did a great job. I especially liked Jason’s commitment to religious freedom.
In response to your effort to imagine what the US Constitution might sound like if the Founders intended a Christian Nation I thought I’d offer up the preamble to my own country’s Constitution:
“In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority and to Whom, as our final end, all actions both of men and States must be referred, We, the people of Éire, Humbly acknowledging all our obligations to our Divine Lord, Jesus Christ, Who sustained our fathers through centuries of trial, Gratefully remembering their heroic and unremitting struggle to regain the rightful independence of our Nation, And seeking to promote the common good, with due observance of Prudence, Justice and Charity, so that the dignity and freedom of the individual may be assured, true social order attained, the unity of our country restored, and concord established with other nations, Do hereby adopt, enact, and give to ourselves this Constitution.”
It has nothing of the grandeur of “We the People…”