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To: exmarine
And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. Ex. 18:25

Sounds like a king appointing officers to rule over the peasants. Ruling over someone does not equal representing them.

1,696 posted on 10/27/2003 7:57:54 AM PST by Modernman ("I'm just a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe."- Jango Fett)
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To: Modernman
The passage in Exodus was quoted by Christian writers, as was the one in Isaiah. The writers MOST quotes by the founders were Locke, Blackstone, Montesquieu, Puffendorf - ALL christians. Furthermore 95% of the 250 founding fathers were Christians. Our founders relied upon God (which God is that? - Krishna?) to win the Revolutionary War - care to dispute that? Read the Declaration of Independence ("with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence..."), or Washington's Farewell address, or Franklin's speech at the Constitutional convention (not bad for a deist!!) - they prove it beyond doubt. I can quote both Washington's speech and Franklin's if you like. Do you have anything to dispute these FACTS?

Our founders were also influenced by the puritans (calvinists! - egad!) who gave them the ideas of (1) Christian self-government (I'll be you don't even know what that is!), and (2) depravity of mankind - of which they wrote about over and over and over again. These are purely Christiain doctrines, and they were both incorporated into our republican system. Do I have to spell out in what ways?

You are out of your league here. You should choose your battle more carefully.

1,700 posted on 10/27/2003 8:21:14 AM PST by exmarine
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