No, he would begin spastically spitting out the teeth I loosened. Waiting, waiting, waiting.........*tapping foot*
Much thanks- It is a good read-and a viewpoint I can agree with.
The writer of this article is aptly named. Response forthcoming from one Atheist Footmouth.
No, he would begin spastically spitting out the teeth I loosened. Waiting, waiting, waiting.........*tapping foot*
Pol Pot was an atheist.
Marx was an atheist.
Lenin was an atheist.
Stalin was an atheist.
Mao was an atheist.
Atheism is a good thing. Right?
I am no supporter of the separation of Church and state, but this quote seems fabricated. Here is the information about the actual letter. Bizarre that Jefferson should be relied on for interpretation, though. Justice Rehnquist debunked this nonsense in Wallace v. Jaffree:
It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of constitutional history, but unfortunately the Establishment Clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly 40 years. Thomas Jefferson was of course in France at the time the constitutional Amendments known as the Bill of Rights were passed by Congress and ratified by the States. His letter to the Danbury Baptist Association was a short note of courtesy, written 14 years after the Amendments were passed by Congress. He would seem to any detached observer as a less than ideal source of contemporary history as to the meaning of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment.
First off, England was a monarchy, not a theocracy.
Second, the Pilgrims did not flee from England to America, but instead they left from Holland to America. They could practice their religion any way they wanted to in Holland, but they were concerned about their children becoming too Dutch, losing their English culture.
Finally, I'm sure the founders were more concerned about the Federal government intruding upon the states in the area of religion, as some states had official state churches at the time of our nations' founding, than any kind of concern about the new country becoming a theocracy.
The colonies had more than their share of "religious intolerance" during the colonial period. Some colonies were founded, because the faiths of their people were outlawed in other colonies.
Ping to self for later pingout.
The context sort of changes a potload (that's a technical term) of judicial holdings. That is, it renders them WRONG. In error.
Shuffling off to find independent corroboration ...
Bump!
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion...Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
- John Adams, October 11, 1798
Wow! That's the first time I ever saw THAT part of Jefferson's letter. I wonder if the athiest Democrat scumbags of the ACLU would be kind enough to post that on their website?
That's the best description of the ACLU I've seen yet- LOL.
God Bless Roy Moore. The stand he made called attention to the very serious problem we have with our Judiciary branch. Sorry it had to cost him so much. His judicial career was one of the first casualties of the war against PC and Judicial Tyranny. But it was instrumental in getting the attention of Americans. I know many, many people were surprised/shocked that he lost his job over a simple plaque of the Ten Commandments.
I'm looking forward to reading his book.
I wish all the Republicans could have the same intestinal fortitude he has and Tom Delay has.
After witnessing the State sponsored execution of an innocent, disabled person (Terri Schindler-the first casualty of the war against Judicial Tyranny) based on hearsay evidence at best- How can anyone NOT see the magnitude of the problem here? There simply is no more important issue than this.
I wish all Republicans who don't have the will to fight, would resign right now, and let the people elect those who have what it takes to overcome this massive obstacle and threat to our freedom.
I imagine Roy Moore and others will be a big help in solving our Judicial Tyranny problem, since they have experienced it first hand.
Bump for later, when I have time to show how disconnected from U.S. history and hypocritical the Moore bashers are.
ACLU can KMA!
Bump.
Article 4, section 4 of the Constitution for the United States;
NOWHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION DOES IT STATE ANYTHING ABOUT A DEMOCRACY!!!
Article 4, section 4 of the Constitution for the United States;
NOWHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION DOES IT STATE ANYTHING ABOUT A DEMOCRACY!!!
THE SOLDIER'S TRAINING MANUAL
Issued by the War Department, November 30, 1928, set forth the exact and truthful definitions of a democracy and of a republic - this manual was ordered destroyed by the infamous F. D. Roosevelt, so that he could institute a democracy utilizing social security as a means to make everyone a slave to the Federal Government.
A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of;
"Take away any one of these four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy."
Democracy is the "direct" rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success.
Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican for of government. They "made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy and said repeatedly and empathically that they had founded a republic.
See article 4, sec 4, clause 1 of the Constitution for the United States.
Democracy
A republic is a political system founded on the principle of individual rights, with government established strictly to protect those rights. Government in a republic is limited to its specific, limited duties as chartered via its constitution; typically, these powers are those of police, courts, military, and international treaty-making. As a result, the defining feature of republics is government-protected liberty.
A republic is not a democracy, even though some of its activities are handled democratically. A democracy is different than a republic in one enormous respect: a democracy is founded on the contradiction of 'collective rights'. For further discussion, see the entry for 'democracy'.
Republics commit suicide by losing sight of their founding principle -- individual rights -- and then, when confronted with difficult questions that require principles to answer, resorting to the seemingly attractive idea of collective rights ("the common good") instead.
This first occurred in America during the Civil War, and thereafter recurred with increasing frequency.
Today America is a democracy teetering on the edge of socialism.
That's the difference: individual rights versus 'collective rights'. The former is a redundancy, the latter a contradiction: one cannot acquire more rights than others merely by joining a group.
A republic acknowledges that each man owns his own life, and therefore has the right to be selfish.
A democracy does not recognize this right; it asserts that man's life (property, resources, etc.) belongs to the state , (and if you don’t believe it, try adding an extension on ‘your’ home without a permit from the city or town or State, etc!) and is to be apportioned by majority vote for "the common good". The next time someone tells you it's wrong to be selfish, and that selflessness and Altruism and The Public Good are noble, you'll know which side he's on.
A Democracy:
A Republic:
A Constitutional Republic:
Federal Government:
Democrats and Republicans:
It was on June 9, 1993 that ACLU member Joel Sogol wrote to then-chief justice of Alabama Sonny Hornsby, threatening to sue anyone who continued the time-honored tradition of praying in court. After Roy Moore took office in 1994 and refused to bring a halt to the tradition, the ACLU stepped up their threats of suit over the prayer and, in addition, began hyperventilating over the Ten Commandments plaque Justice Moore had placed in his courtroom. At the beginning of the third month of Justice Moore’s first term of office on March 31, 1995, the ACLU filed suit in U.S. district court against him on the basis that he had illegally imposed his religious beliefs on others in the courtroom, denouncing the prayer as “a religious test.”
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Could someone please investigate and explain PL: 102-14, (7 Noehide Laws) passed in l991? I don't understand it's roots or purpose.
It seems Under this Congressional Law Idolatry,etc. is prohibited punishable by beheading. Endorsed by GWBush, Sr.,etc. in honor of Rabbi Scheerson?