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2021-07-04 -Short Attention Span Theater-
The Fourth of July is Not America's Birthday
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Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-04 11:12|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 What defines a birthday? Iā€™d say Declaration of Independence was birthday and signing/ratifying constitution was more of a sign of entering adulthood as a nation.
Posted by Ruprecht 2021-07-04 12:13||   2021-07-04 12:13|| Front Page Top

#2 1619?šŸ˜Ž
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-04 12:17||   2021-07-04 12:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Considering the signers of the Declaration of Independence literally signed their own death warrant when they did so.

They wouldn't have been 'freed on bail' - they would have been publicly hung until dead - their estates confiscated - their families also at risk.

So I would lean toward July 4th.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-07-04 12:49||   2021-07-04 12:49|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 Go to your room, grom. Or better yet, help us celebrate Independence Day by dropping some cluster munitions on Hamas.
Posted by Matt 2021-07-04 12:55||   2021-07-04 12:55|| Front Page Top

#5 ^šŸ˜ƒ
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-04 12:57||   2021-07-04 12:57|| Front Page Top

#6 This "birthday" business matters because people who are utterly ignorant of their own history need to be slapped around a little.

Sure, and Jesus was born on 12/25.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-04 14:04||   2021-07-04 14:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Nobody likes a pedant. I'll have another burger and more Wild Turkey.
Posted by M. Murcek  2021-07-04 14:38||   2021-07-04 14:38|| Front Page Top

#8 
Posted by Angating Spusose8182 2021-07-04 14:58||   2021-07-04 14:58|| Front Page Top

#9 OK then, call it Independence Day.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-07-04 15:18||   2021-07-04 15:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Peter Laarman

Peter Laarman is a United Church of Christ minister who served as senior minister of New York's Judson Memorial Church and then as executive director of LA's Progressive Christians Uniting before retiring in 2014. He remains deeply involved in national and regional social justice projects touching on race, class, and religion.

Pete, you should consider continuing on with your retirement, you have caught "Bidenitous", and you have in no time, become confused, disoriented, and nonsensical. That is not unlike the diminution of the UCC, in which I was previously a Deacon, an organization which has seen itself go from a 10 Million + membership in 1962 to a less than 900K organization today. It swept far Left in the 1960s and obviously lost its flock due to this kind of thinking, among other issues.
Posted by Dino Elmereting2909 2021-07-04 15:59||   2021-07-04 15:59|| Front Page Top

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