Oct. 4th, 1982 - 97th Congress Proclaimed "Year of The Bible" - Twenty Years Later What Has Changed?

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[Happy2BMe]

Congress Declares

The Bible "The Word  of God"

[S.J.Res. 165]

Public Law 97-280

97th Congress  96 Stat. 1211

October 4, 1982

Joint Resolution authorizing and requesting the President to proclaim 1983 as the "Year of the Bible."

Whereas the Bible, the Word of God, has made a unique contribution in shaping the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation and people;

Whereas deeply held religious convictions springing from the Holy Scriptures led to the early settlement of our Nation;

Whereas Biblical teachings inspired concepts of civil government that are contained in our Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States;

Whereas many of our great national leaders-among them Presidents Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, and Wilson-paid tribute to the surpassing influence of the Bible in our country's development, as the words of President Jackson that the Bible is "the rock on which our Republic rests";

Whereas the history of our Nation clearly illustrates the value of voluntarily applying the teachings of the Scriptures in the lives of individuals, families, and societies;

Whereas this Nation now faces great challenges that will test this Nation as it has never been tested before; and

Whereas that renewing our knowledge of and faith in God through Holy Scripture can strengthen us as a nation and a people: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is authorized and requested to designate 1983 as a national "Year of the Bible" in recognition of both the formative influence the Bible has been for our Nation, and our national need to study and apply the teachings of the Holy Scriptures.

Approved October 4, 1982.

1 U.S. Cong. & Adm. News '82-29 96 Stat. 1211

http://www.theherbdoc.com/legal/PL97-280.htm

Liberty has not existed outside of Christianity. - Lord Acton

http://www.criminalgovernment.com/docs/pl97-280.html

JAMES MADISON

Fourth President of the United States

             - member of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and

               chief architect of the United States Constitution

"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the

power of government, far from it.  We have staked the future of all our

political institutions upon the capability of mankind for self-government;

upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control

ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD."

UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

Church of the Holy Trinity vs. United States

February 29, 1892 - decision rendered by Justice Josiah Brewster:

"Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and

embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind.  It is impossible

that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent

our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian."

PATRICK HENRY

American Revoutionary leader and orator (1736-1799)

              

('Give me Liberty or give me death !')

             - member of the Continental Congress

             - five-time Governor of the State of Virginia

             - instrumental in writing the Constitution of Virgina

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation

was founded, not be religionists, but by Christians; not on religions,

but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other

faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Commander-in-Chief

of the Continental Army in the American War for Independence

                                                  - Chairman of the 1787 Constitutional Convention

                                                  - First President of the United States

                

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."

RE:  THE TEN COMMANDMENTS DISPLAY IN ALABAMA STATE SUPREME COURT:

So who is right, George Washington, James Madison, the United States

Supreme Court of 1892, Patrick Henry, and Alabama State Supreme Court

Chief Justice Roy Moore,

OR

the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the Southern

Poverty Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. District

Judge Myron Thompson, and 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Ed Carnes,

J.L. Edmondson, and Richard W. Story ?

THE WORD OF GOD IS IMMUTABLE, ETERNAL, AND UNIVERSAL: FOR ALL MEN,

FOR ALL NATIONS, FOR ALL TIME.  (Matthew 4:4)

THE WORD OF GOD IS RIGHTLY THE MORAL FOUNDATION FOR ALL HUMAN CIVIL LAW.

[Happy2BMe]

What a difference twenty years makes!

What was unmovable, unshakable, seemingly eternal in America's national moral fibre is now under attack - the Bible and The Ten Commandments.

Has secularism finally conquered the remaining remnants of Christianity in American government?

What happened?

[Nan48]

Interesting--thanks for posting this.

[usnret99]

Moral Law has been unsirped by Immoral Lawyers!!!!

[Chancellor Palpatine]

What a pharisaic waste of time that was. I don't know which group had a shallower and less meaningful understanding of faith - the proponents of the measue, those other congresscritters who went along with it solely for electoral advantage, or the sheeple who took it as a meaningful expression and expect government to make these sorts of pronouncements.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[Happy2BMe]

Thanks!

[Happy2BMe]

"I don't know which group had a shallower and less meaningful understanding of faith - the proponents of the measue, those other congresscritters who went along with it solely for electoral advantage, or the sheeple who took it as a meaningful expression and expect government to make these sorts of pronouncements."

Well, things have really changed in the past twenty years . . Here are some of thoese (Democrat) critters you so respectfully despise: ==========================================================================================

THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS in the 97th Congress

Don Fuqua (Florida), Chairman
Robert A. Roe (New Jersey) George E. Brown, Jr. (California) James H. Scheuer (New York) Richard L. Ottinger (New York) Tom Harkin (Iowa) Marilyn Lloyd Bouquard (Tennessee) James J. Blanchard (Michigan) Timothy E. Wirth (Colorado) Doug Walgren (Pennsylvania) Ronnie G. Flippo (Alabama) Dan Glickman (Kansas) Albert Gore, Jr. (Tennessee)	Robert A. Young (Missouri) Richard C. White (Texas) Harold L. Volkmer (Missouri) Howard Wolpe (Michigan) Bill Nelson (Florida) Stanley N. Lundine (New York) Allen E. Ertel (Pennsylvania) Bob Shamansky (Ohio) Ralph M. Hall (Texas) Dave McCurdy (Oklahoma) Mervyn M. Dymally (California)
(January 28, 1981) Member appointments. (H. Res. 44)

[zchip]

What happened?

For twenty years or more - [actually much much more]- liberalism/socialism/marxism has been inculcated into our culture through the education system and mass communications media, (mainly television), using the methods of attitude channeling and brainwashing.

It is just that simple.

[Happy2BMe]

BUMP!

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[Happy2BMe]

"For twenty years or more - [actually much much more]- liberalism/socialism/marxism has been inculcated into our culture through the education system and mass communications media, (mainly television), using the methods of attitude channeling and brainwashing."

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It's called MORAL RELATIVISM and it is a worse threat to the survival of American than the worst thing Al Q could ever imagine.

". . the single greatest killer of Americans is moral-liberalism."

The Rise of Moral Relativism will the death knell for America - courteousy of The Democratic Socialist Party of America . .

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America's New Relativism

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This is Nancy Pearcey in the Public Square

How did September 11 change America?  Our hopes went up when polls showed a spike in church attendance, but that has fallen off.  The lasting change may be bleaker, says pollster George Barna. 

The number of Americans who say they believe in unchanging, absolute moral truths dropped from 38 percent before the attacks to only 22 percent after.

We’ve heard the slogan, time and again, that the enemy is not Islam, it’s intolerance.  And Americans seem to be taking that to heart—defining tolerance as fuzzy relativism.

Barna’s research also shows that some 64 percent of Americans agree with the statement, “It does not matter what religious faith you follow”—and that “Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Muslims and all others pray to the same God.”This growing relativism may be the greatest challenge facing Christians in America after 9/11.  The very idea of truth has been put on trial. I’m Nancy Pearcey.

From The Access Research Network, Nancy Pearcey

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Relativism, Religion, and the First Amendment

Relativism, Religion, and the First Amendment
By Jan Ireland

To launch the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever known, America’s Founding Fathers must have possessed freedom in their very DNA. But nature apparently passes along those freedom genes sparingly, since nothing like America has occurred before or since. It is not unexpected that freedom-hating forces, so rampant in the world, would do their best to chip away at America. Relativism, the idea that individuals decide according to their own personal judgments what is good or bad, is one of the greatest aggressors. A return to the public presence of religion, under the auspices of the First Amendment, may be needed to combat Relativism’s erosive societal effects.

Relativism is perhaps the prettiest of all freedom-haters. It’s a slow, insidious takeover. Its sinuous insertion into society can occupy decades. When rebuffed, it simply keeps trying, until for society t’s easier not to fight.

Relativism plays to America’s fairness. It purports to give equal weight to all systems of thought, all systems of belief. And it claims to empower the individual, by urging self-reliance. Who could argue with such a surface? Isn’t that the reason America was founded, after all? Isn’t that what the phrase in the Declaration of Independence says?

Actually, no. And here is where Relativism pulls its greatest bait and switch.

America was not founded to makes all things equal. America was founded to give freedom to all. The phrase in the Declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ means just that. It does not say that they will then be equal in all ways at all times, throughout their lives, and in all their endeavors. That this idea virtually pervades American society today shows that semi-sages have misquoted and mangled our historical heritage for decades.

The surface arguments of Relativism pose another very real danger. Giving equal weight to all systems o belief or thinking, causes legitimate right thinking to be shunted aside. It’s the ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’ argument. That all societies, or even all within a society, don’t agree on definitions does not mean the values themselves don’t exist. And it is possible to determine which side in a fight is the terrorist, and which is the freedom fighter.

Relativism’s favorite target is of course religion, since religion is its antithesis. Liberals whipping up a furor to expunge any vestige of God from the public square now are operating from the extreme of Relativism. The seemingly benign tenets of Relativism are actually an attempt to foist the liberals’ beliefs, in effect their own ‘religion’, onto society. This is why liberals constantly assert that there is a ‘separation of church and state’ in the constitution, though the phrase does not appear there. It comes from a phrase in a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote, a full decade after the Bill of Rights were ratified. The reater trap for America, also, is that Relativism is so handily aided by political correctness.

Relativism often hides behind the ‘hate the sin, love the sinner’ argument, and that argument has some validity. But the revolving door of offend/forgive/reoffend, a ‘get out of trouble free’ card for everyone from pop singers to ex-presidents, has shown this argument’s unsuitability to moral standard.

It is incongruous that we daily exhort society to heed medical advice, yet invite screaming banshees if we dare suggest that society seek spiritual advice. Just as advocating what works medically makes our society healthier, advocating what works spiritually could make our society happier. Some seem not to want integrity and ethical behavior to return to America.

The First Amendment says about religion, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;…” The murky minds of liberals and atheists have played the child’s game of Twistr with those words, so that they have become an unrecognizable screed. They construe them as a phony mandate to systematically remove every smidgen of the evidence of the Christian God.

Relativism is allowing them to do it.

The best defense is America’s return to the public expression of religion. It is not prohibited by the Constitution. It does not exclude anyone. And a careful reading of our history shows that it is what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
Relativism, Religion, and the First Amendment