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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The Greeks believed in “love your enemy”? You’re going to have to give us a cite for that.[/quote]

Well we are talking about the values this country was founded on, and that is not one of them.  But since you demanded one, I shall oblige:

[i]Socrates held that one must never do harm to another even in return for harm received. His arguments were based on his general theory of virtue and on certain ambiguities in Greek ethical language.[/i]

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/horizons/article/abs/socrates-and-jesus-on-nonretaliation-and-love-of-enemies/3C8ECC78DA10F4703D10A260262F4E9A

[quote]Also, some Christians don’t believe in the resurrection, including the odd Episcopal priest. That’s OK because it’s not the only, or even the central for many, tenet of the faith. More important are what Jesus said and his atonement for mankind through communion. [/quote]

Some christians?  Some christians believe all kinds of things.  I was raised as one and the resurrection was fundamental.[/quote]

You think Jesus, an itinerant carpenter, read Socrates?[/quote]

WT(heck) are you talking about now?  Are you gish galloping away on me here?

We are talking about the values this country was founded on, which was stated in the thread you are replying to... as well as the fact that the founding fathers read the greeks.  Stay on topic.

(but no obviously he didn't, but the educated monks that first transcribed the oral history sure did.  But let's not go there or start another thread about that. 
 This one is about the separation of church and state and the baseless claim that it was founded on "judeo christian values".)[/quote]

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