To: Viva Le Dissention
So since you're so keen on the thoughts of the Founders, what is your opinion on Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance?
You mean the part where he described Christianity as a "precious gift?" That part, or the part that acknowledge--as a given--a single sovereign creator? (Terribly insensitive to modern pantheists.)
You mistake a concern for using the apparatus of government to advance a particular religion with the common moral law embraced by Baptist, Congregationalist, Jew, Catholic, Presbyteran, and Quaker. This, after all, is a discussion about THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
To: farmer18th
Yeah, he says civil people must believe in God. Then he says leave it the hell out of the government. Or do you just simply read that part (basically the entire essay) out?
I can't believe you're now saying that the Ten Commandments isn't religious. You've gone beyond all reason.
To: farmer18th
This, after all, is a discussion about THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.No, it's about two mortals, Roy Moore and William Pryor and a hearing that starts in Montgomery, Alabama, tomorrow on whether Moore should be removed or otherwise disciplined by the Alabama Judicial Review Board. Pryor is the prosecutor and Moore is the defendant.
215 posted on
11/11/2003 2:55:43 PM PST by
Catspaw
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