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Re: Dad 2.0 Dumblr Roll Call! Who’s from the Tumblr... | The Daddy Complex

Diarydad — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:40:01 -0000

man I missed this one, but I loved your roundtable thanks for the pointers

Re: #DadChat and Rape Culture

Diarydad — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 15:20:53 -0000

The #DadChat was shameful he doesn't speak for us and many of us won't participate in another DadChat. We'll find other venues to promote fatherhood and positive male role-modeling.

Re: Quit Telling People That The Founding Fathers Weren’t Christians!

Diarydad — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:37:57 -0000

I'm not suggesting that George Washington wasn't Christian, or whether or not the majority of founding fathers were or were not. They were largely influenced but "Deist" thinking and more so Enlightenment thinking. They were very careful to tie the government they created to a specific religion. As far as a proclamation goes that was part of the Thanksgiving Day proclamation establishing a day of thanksgiving. This was a proclamation, not a law passed by congress and was recommended to the states. He himself was a religious man and used religious verbiage and imagery when recommending to the various state governor's that they observe this day of thanksgiving. When speaking to a broad audience who share a philosophical culture invoking the term god and almighty was done in such a way as to be inclusive rather than exclusive of the citizenry. Christian, Deist, and even Jewish populations would have been able to read that document in the context of their faith. The full note you have added though has been used and reused many times over to try and make the point for including more religion in government itself and falls short at that. It does not apply to what I wrote previously and unless you have some personal insight you'd like to add to it to explain its inclusion here I think we can disregard it...

Re: Quit Telling People That The Founding Fathers Weren’t Christians!

Diarydad — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 11:55:57 -0000

The problem with your post is that their individual beliefs were irrelevant to the founding of the nation, and they took pains to separate their individual religious affiliations from government both so that the government would be nurtured as well as religion. Many religious leaders were also very much in favor of separating the government from religion because if the government failed they didn't want it to be seen as a referendum on their religion. Many of the founding fathers and the thinkers that inspired them were christian there is no doubt of that but the unifying characteristic that they had was their adoption of enlightenment thinking which led to a divorce of government by a ruler and defined by religion. In truth the nation was built on the core values of enlightenment thinking and not the bible. The concept of the United States as a "christian" nation is relatively new. "In God We trust" wasn't added to our money until around the turn of the 20th century, the words "under God" weren't added to the pledge of allegiance until after WWII. "And God Bless America" wasn't a standard ending to a presidential address until Ronald Reagan. All those are not specifically Christian terms but if you want to look at how history is being rewritten then the inclusion of more religious terminology in our political activities indicates that religious zealots are trying to reverse what the founding fathers had tried to create.

Re: The First Big Good-Bye: When Your Oldest Goes to College #Blogust

Diarydad — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:44:53 -0000

This seems so far away for me and yet having a ten year old seemed so far away when my oldest was born... and look how fast that went! Great post Jim!

Re: A Blogger and a Father

Diarydad — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 10:22:02 -0000

Beautiful words, and beyond them thank you for bringing so many of us together to share our stories of fatherhood. I'll have you and your family in my thoughts. Here's to the heaven you have and the heaven you'll know.

Re: Two-Years Smoke-Free Today, and MARLBORO is still harassing me...

Diarydad — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:19:56 -0000

Congrats Brother Keep it up!

Re: ERIC BENNION Diary of a Dad.

Diarydad — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:26:18 -0000

Thanks Kaye!

Re: The Uselessness Of Debating A Cartoon Character’s Sexuality

Diarydad — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:49:00 -0000

Can we add to this who gives a fuck if the Green Latern is gay? I mean honestly if a superhero consistently saves the world from evil does it matter what he/she does in there downtime...

Re: http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/13023229169

Diarydad — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:24:19 -0000

didn't see this until too late maybe next time...

Re: http://www.thedaddycomplex.com/post/13023229169

Diarydad — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:23:47 -0000

I think there should definitely be more things like this.

Re: MrCrowder

Diarydad — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:30:06 -0000

tweet tweet @mrcrowder

Re: Strike & Counterstrike

Diarydad — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:18:04 -0000

Great post! Even as a agnostic skeptic I can appreciate the concept. The traditions that we hold on to and provide us hope have to be vehicles for that hope. Showing us the way in which we will achieve it.

Re: Jamie Sandefer runs on the Electric Highway

Diarydad — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:25:56 -0000

Way to be an inspiration Jamie! (you too Petey)

Re: Runners on Parade

Diarydad — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:42:49 -0000

To True. race day or not it is always you against the road everything else is decoration!