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Will America ever be Christian again?
"Will America ever be Christian again?" is the teaser over at World Net Daily. I'd respond, but it's sort of like back when you were in junior high school and the older would come around asking the younger "if there was a [insert term here that the Brits use to refer to cigarettes] on your back, would you beat him off?" Or, how about, "Did you ever stop beating your wife?" In other words, the question itself is just so wrong.
Talk about our individual heritages all you want, talk about the faith and beliefs of the Founding Fathers all you want, talk about the roots of our culture and form of government all you want. But please, don't invent history. Leave that to the Democrats.
It is true, we are not now a "Christian" nation. Guess what, we never have been. The purpose and orginal meaning of the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion", was that the United States of America would never be anything but a Nation. Not a Christian nation, or a Catholic, or Jewish, Muslim, Bhuddist, or anything but your plain old vanilla variety secular nation.
This type of idiot journalism just discredits what would be otherwise valid points.
I'm Getting Old
The first computer that I owned had a gargantuan half-gig internal hard drive. When that was filled up with graphics files while I went to school to learn my trade, I bought an external hard drive to give me a little freedom. I can still remember wondering how long it would take me to fill up that big ol' hard drive.
That hard drive, a one gig SCSI drive, was probably a touch bigger than the Apple Mini, cost nearly $400, and would probably have broken my foot if I were to accidentally drop the thing on my foot.
The flash-memory based, $149, pack-of-chewing-gum sized Apple Shuffle holds the same amount of data as that big old hard drive. And if I want something more, well my choices include the new Kanguru Zipper Pro portable.
The US$199.95 drive measures 2.4 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches, weighs 40 grams and offers a "swivel plug" that gets the USB 2.0 interface out of the way when it's not in use. The 20GB mechanism operates at 4200 RPM and doesn't require an external power supply if used with a powered USB port. The device ships with a cable, neckstrap and documentation.
I'll be 35 this year. I wonder just how old that is in computer years?