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Posted on 10/14/2003 12:45:08 PM PDT by yonif
On September 20, US Secretary of State Colin Powell told a group at the UN in New York that the United States is a "Judeo-Christian" country. Immediately Powell felt compelled to amend his statement by saying America is "a country of many faiths." Scratch Judeo-Christian and insert country of many faiths. This qualification put the secretary back on the politically correct side of the ledger, and that was that. Or was it?
Powell's obvious slip of the tongue and his quick attempt to rectify it demonstrate the administration's prevailing mood of indecisiveness and its penchant to appease the rabid minorities that are fast calling the shots for the rest of us in the "land of the free."
What is wrong with referring to America as a Judeo-Christian country?
After all, the basis of our traditional concepts of law, morality, civility, and social order have been rooted in Judeo-Christian principles and ethics, and then translated into personal lifestyles and community mores. For more than two centuries the international community referred to the United States as a "Christian nation." And though it may not have been accurate in the most biblical sense of the term, no one seemed to object.
Who takes to the streets in Muslim countries with the expressed intent of wiping the landscape clean of Muhammad's visage? And who lambastes Islamic representatives at the UN for saying, "Ours is a Muslim country"? Not once has a Muslim recanted with "Uh-h-h, check that. Ours is a country of many faiths."
In a much-celebrated case in Alabama last year, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended for defying a court order to remove a 2,400-kilogram monument of the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
Although attacks on displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms and public places have become common in the US, this case contained elements of particular interest.
Judge Roy Moore was a duly appointed Alabama Supreme Court chief justice. He contended the monument did not violate the First Amendment – and even some who opposed him agreed.
This fact, however, did not deter his opponents or Montgomery Circuit Judge Charles Price, who ruled Judge Moore's display of the Ten Commandments unconstitutional.
Tactics aside, the point is that militant minorities are on a crusade to destroy the underpinnings of our Judeo-Christian heritage. In the end, Judge Moore's magnificent monument was shunted off to an obscure room adjacent to a janitorial closet – which may say a great deal about what this struggle is all about.
SOMEONE ASKED why it would not be equally appropriate to display texts from the Koran in American courthouses. Because America is not Arabia. And though many naive Americans may not recognize the difference, Islamic Shari'a law, based on the Koran, is the stuff of insufferable agonies endured by non-Muslims in Sudan, Afghanistan, and other Islamist regimes. It has no compatibility whatever with American constitutional law and justice.
Last July, Federal Judge Napoleon Jones Jr. ruled that the Boy Scouts of America's lease of an 18-acre tract in Balboa Park, California, violates the provisions of the US and state constitutions governing the separation of church and state and is, therefore, unconstitutional.
The organization's major transgression, in the eyes of Judge Jones: its requirement that scouts express a belief in a Supreme Being. The Boy Scouts, therefore, were deemed a religious organization – a church, if you please. After all, the Scouts were using public land – an absolute anathema in the eyes of left-wing purists.
Around the same time, the Muslim Youth Camps of America (MYCA) were granted a lease on federal property in North Liberty, Iowa, by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The former Girl Scout camp will feature a mosque, minaret, and a 1,625-square-meter convention center.
At present we have a mixed bag of prayer before congressional sessions, the words In God We Trust on our currency, and the singing of "God Bless America" at public functions. But make no mistake about it: the militant anti-Judeo-Christian forces will not rest until every evidence of the foundation upon which this country was built is destroyed.
We have often referred to the present war on terror as an all-out fight to the finish. In the end, there will be winners and losers. This is a war of another kind, but a war nonetheless. It is an all-out clash of cultures; and there will be winners and losers.
The process is nothing new. It has recurred time and time again over the course of history. And it inevitably will continue as long as societies accumulate enough wealth, power, prestige, and honor to make them worth confiscating or conquering.
The writer is a prominent Christian author and syndicated radio broadcaster in the US.
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Around the same time, the Muslim Youth Camps of America (MYCA) were granted a lease on federal property in North Liberty, Iowa, by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The former Girl Scout camp will feature a mosque, minaret, and a 1,625-square-meter convention center.
To the Satanic Left, Terrorist organizations are good. The love of Christianity is bad.
2000 years ago, the rise of the anti-Christ movement was prophacized. Today we see it right before our very eyes. The Satanic left is after the Jews and Christians. They are Satans enemies, and therefor enemies of the left wing demons that follow him.
By their fruits you will know them.
This is what is so disturbing. That we are hearing this sort of thing from a supposedly "conservative" administration....
Nothin'. It's a Judeo-Christian country. Keep saying it no matter what the leftists' squeal. Keep saying Israel's a Jewish nation, too, because it is. That makes them squeal more.
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