Posted on 12/22/2023 11:15:59 PM PST by DallasBiff
The absurdity of the liberal secular push claiming the Founders intended the First Amendment to bar Christian Christmas images from public places is most evident by the fact that these same Founders actually used the U.S. Capitol as a church week after week from the start of the United States of America.
The liberal secularist argument would indicate the Founders messed up so badly in writing the Bill of Rights that they contradicted themselves in the very first words. The liberal secularist argument would mean that, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion," contradicts "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
If the early elected officials had required each other to attend the church service in the Capitol, that could be attacked as contradicting the First Amendment by establishing how fellow members of Congress would worship. However, no one was required to attend the 11 a.m. Sunday services—making it easier for Christians to worship and perfectly consistent with a new country founded on Judeo-Christian values, just as allowing Christian displays at Christmastime allows Christians their free exercise of religion.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
I know I'm old, I remember when in old print magazines such as Time and Newsweek, they were far left.
>> Wow, I can’t believe, NewsWeek would publish such a piece on there website.
It’s an Opinion piece.
Of course it is.
Satan hates God and is out to destroy mankind and keep people from getting right with Him. He’ll do anything it takes to accomplish that end.
Ultimately it’s a war on Christ and the Gospel
It will reach fever-pitch during the Tribulation and the Great Tribulation, culminating at the Battle of Armageddon (at Meggido - for the thread)
Things that are coming:
World War III
Ezekiel 38 (Regional)
Population Reduction
Globalist Agendas
The Great Reset
Satan’s Antichrist and False Prophet
7 years of ‘Peace and Security’ confirmed - Daniel 9:27
(A.K.A. “the two-state solution”)
The Tribulation
The Great Tribulation
The Mark of the Beast
Armageddon
The Second Coming of Jesus Christ to Earth 🌎🌍
1,000 years of Real Peace under the Reign of Jesus Christ Himself
Gog Magog (from the Four Quarters of the Earth 🌎🌍 - Revelation 20:8)
Peaceful Eternity for all Saints under the Savior Jesus Christ
Luke 21:34-36
John 3:17-18
Acts 2:38
Ephesians 2:8-9
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God bless
And I still don’t trust Newsweak.
Some conservatives like to pretend that this is a "liberal secularist" or atheist attack on "Judeo-Christian values." But the "war on Christmas" is a war solely on Christianity.
Mayor Eric Adams of NYC:
Texas state Rep. Sarah Davis at Houston City Hall:
Christians will adjust and spend the day with family and a meal and prayer.
BTW, that's what my wife and I are doing Monday. We have a fake tree, but all we're offering is a good meal and fellowship with our family. No (other) gifts. Oh - and televised football!
“Some employees may not share your religion, practice any religion, or share your enthusiasm for holiday decorations.
As the Times further noted, if that is the standard, then would this not ban the observance of Pride Month if “not all shared the enthusiasm” for the month?”
Good point.
The majority of the comments on the article are typical of vile newsweek readers. [Tho I just skimmed a few]
Too little, too late. They should have printed this (or something similar) every year over the past 50 years or so.
The First Amendment only limits one group of people; The Congress.
Read it:
Amendment I (1791)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Individuals, states, and local governments are not limited. Congress is and Congressmen are not limited from having religious objects or expressing religious opinions. Cities, state governments, and Federal lands and buildings are not prohibited from having the Ten Commandments or a cross or a menorah or a crescent moon and star or manger scene. Prohibiting these are a misinterpretation of the First Amendment.
State and local governments could even specify or ban religions if their constituting documents don’t prohibit it.
Too many people have never read the Constitution and do not know that most of what the Federal Government is doing is not Constitutional.
Our founding fathers tolerated slavery too. Just because they did or didn’t do something shouldn’t be our point, but that what is right we ought to do and what is wrong we ought not do, and look at them for evidence to reason truth better. Slavery brought far more harm than good. Some, like Catholics, were not free to practice their faith while most protestants were....keep the good, jettison the bad. There is both always and we have this job to do always. Keep the great patriarchy, limit the bad patriarchy. Reasoned debate loses to spinmeisters unfortunately.
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