Posted on 03/06/2002 4:39:45 PM PST by vannrox
I dunno', but he certainly doesn't seem capable of original thought. I wonder what it would be like to go through life with nothing more than bumper stickers and wacko liberal slogans going through my head.
The above quote is indicative of the authors complete misunderstanding of Christianity and his hatred of it. He completely lost Ashcrofts point that those who believe in a creator respect human life even those who do not believe in a creator. He turns it around to imply that those "extreme Christians" believe in annilihating the athiest.
Can someone give me the link to the Ultra Christian broadcasting station. They don't seem to be in my areas.
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GREAT FREEPER QUOTE FROM THE FREEPATHON THREAD:
2366 posted on 3/3/02 6:57 PM Pacific by McGavin999
You decide
By http://www.heresyhouse.com
By the author
The original pledge was written in 1892 by a Baptist socialist minister, Francis Bellamy, and was first published in a magazine called the Youth's Companion
8. In which year was the American Pledge of Allegiance rewritten to include the phrase "under God"? |
1954 1923 1892 1969 The original pledge was written in August 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister, and first cousin of Edward Bellamy, author of the American socialist utopian novels, Looking Backward and Equality. Francis was a Christian Socialist. He was also deeply affected by his literary cousin's philosophies. The Pledge was published in the September 8th issue of "The Youth's Companion", the leading family magazine of its day. Its owner and editor, Daniel Ford, had hired Francis in 1891 as his assistant when Francis was pressured into leaving his baptist church in Boston because of his socialist sermons. In 1892, Francis Bellamy became a chairman of a committee of state superintendents of education in the National Education Association. As its chairman, he prepared the program for the public schools' quadricentennial celebration for Columbus Day of the same year. He structured this public school program around a flag raising ceremony and a flag salute - his "Pledge of Allegiance." The original Pledge read as follows: 'I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.' He considered placing the word, "equality," in his Pledge, but knew that the state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans. In 1923 and 1924, the National Flag Conference, under the leadership of the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution, changed the Pledge's words, "my Flag," to "the Flag of the United States of America." Bellamy disliked this change, but his protest was ignored. Again during the height of the Cold War, when McCarthyism hysteria gripped the land, the National Reform Association and religious institutions saw that the time was ripe to make their move. In the typically hysterical language of the day, the Committee on the Judiciary published on May 10, 1954, that "...one of the greatest differences between the free world and the Communists, [is] a belief in God." It was urged that the Pledge of Allegiance be altered to recognize god. PS 623 (77th Cong., 56 Stat.) effectuated that end. And so, in 1954, Congress added the words, "under God," to the Pledge. The Pledge was now both a patriotic oath and a public prayer. Bellamy's granddaughter said he also would have resented this second change. He had been pressured into leaving his church in 1891 because of his socialist sermons. In his retirement in Florida, he stopped attending church because he disliked the racial bigotry he found there. A few liberals recite a slightly revised version of Bellamy's original Pledge: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with equality, liberty and justice for all." Thanks in part to: Historical Records of Tisbury, Mass. (http://www.vineyard.net/vineyard/history/pledge.htm) |
The second issue is the plagarism.
Maybe that is why we are still a super power and the author is writing from a third world country with rationed medical care, bad teeth, warm beer, and a pathetic excuse for a military. When more people in England believed in God the sun never set on their empire.
If this guy thinks "Thou shalt not kill" means God wants Governments to sit back and do nothing.... while maniacs and terrorists slaughter their innocent citizens...he's got a warped concept of the commandment...of what it means to protect life ...and the righteous character of God.
Does it really?
Right or wrong...since when does believing that Jews might dominate any profession..including the press...make one an "antisemite"???
And if he believed this was not for the good of the country...how exactly does that make Graham a hypocrite?
I believe that the Jews are God's people....but that doesn't mean I have to agree with every move they make. According to the Bible...God doesn't agree with all they do either.
So what?
This nit-picking to try bash Billy Graham by holding him to a higher standard of perfection than anybody else is hypocritical.
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