Tadams8591, I owe you an apology. I just now read your profile page – which is something I should always do before making a reply. There you aver that of all your priorities, your first is Catholicism. If you check my profile page, you’ll see that my first and overarching identity is Christian. I should have addressed you as my brother in Christ and not simply an intellectual conservative.
Likewise, slowhandluke, I should have noticed that you have been around Free Republic for 6 years and thus have certainly weathered quite a few storms unique to conservatives where they “eat their own” (who could forget Elian?!) I should have addressed you as someone who will stay in the fox hole with me and not run when the enemy is fierce, you disagree with me or the ammunition is lacking.
You are all certainly welcome to your views and I do not expect to persuade you with what I am about to say but I shall make this testimony for the record and then withdraw from the debate with the three of you:
The root of this nation was clearly established in the fertile ground of the Christian faith of its founders - but has been drifting toward atheism by the many USSC decisions which became law despite the legislators who were elected to express the will of the primarily theistic population. This same drifting has occurred in many of the mainstream denominations as they have reinterpreted the Scriptures to accept abominations under the guise of reaching more people with the Gospel.
All we have to do is look at Europe to see what happens when people turn away from God and toward their own imaginings of right and wrong.
More important than anything in this physical realm including this nation and its people is that God’s name be hallowed, that His kingdom come, that His will be done. This is the heart of the Lord’s Prayer. We mean it when we pray it – His will, not ours.
Thus we prayed urgently and earnestly, humbling ourselves, turning away from the evil around us and standing on His promise that if we would do this He would heal this land (2 Ch 7:14).
It was not a faithless prayer. We stood praying, believing that we received the healing (Mark 11:24-25). Without that belief, or if we fail to forgive, our desire for this land would not be granted.
Therefore I praise God for the answer to our prayer – for this President, this administration, all of these conservative judicial appointments including these two last appointments to the Supreme Court.
I do not worry about Harriet Miers. If I had any worry, it would have been a statement of disbelief and all my prayers would be literally, in vain.
Moreover, nothing is beyond His power. If He can make a king out of a shepherd, he can make a judge out of a lawyer.
Our disagreement is more tactics than direction. Maybe Mier will be great, but I agree with G. Will that Bush has lost the benefit of doubt some time back. Maybe Bush got a two-fer in a Christian-Conservative, but he could have gotten a three-fer Christian-Conservative-original_intent_jurist:
A leftist site had this to say about Janice Rogers Brown:
A Christian black woman from the segregated South, Brown supports limits on abortion rights and corporate liability, routinely upholds the death penalty and opposes affirmative action.And JRB would not carry the crony label....she formulates opinions "in prayer and quiet study of the Bible." And in her commencement address, she criticized philosophers and scientists for trying to mold society "as if God did not exist."