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To: highball
It's fine if you don't want to acknowledge that the Founding Fathers based our laws on the laws of God.....on Judeo-Christian law.

But it doesn't change the fact that those laws were understood and absorbed into our Constitution without specific mention of them.

Thomas Jefferson wrote that democracy without morality would fail. Where did that morality come from? Certainly not from ourselves.

Tell you what, highball........I gotta go now, but you can join in with the ACLU and scrape that engraving of Moses holding the Ten Commandments off the Supreme Court building, if acknowledging that they are the source of our law is so odious to you.

Until then, good day........

1,014 posted on 01/18/2006 1:21:53 PM PST by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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To: ohioWfan
Tell you what, highball........I gotta go now, but you can join in with the ACLU and scrape that engraving of Moses holding the Ten Commandments off the Supreme Court building, if acknowledging that they are the source of our law is so odious to you.

Cute. If you don't have anything substantive to say, lob insults. Yeah, that'll distract everybody.

Still doesn't change the fact that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land....

1,016 posted on 01/18/2006 1:55:54 PM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ohioWfan
[T]hose laws were understood and absorbed into our Constitution without specific mention of them. Thomas Jefferson wrote that democracy without morality would fail. Where did that morality come from? Certainly not from ourselves.

Good points.

1,020 posted on 01/18/2006 3:03:10 PM PST by bvw
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To: ohioWfan

"Thomas Jefferson wrote that democracy without morality would fail. Where did that morality come from? Certainly not from ourselves."

"If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God."-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814


1,039 posted on 01/18/2006 6:45:46 PM PST by TKDietz
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To: ohioWfan

>Where did that morality come from? Certainly not from
>ourselves

OF COURSE it's from ourselves ... where else could it have come? Aliens? Chimps? Unless of course one were to believe in pixies or ghosts or other supernatural entities, which strike me as extremely unlikely.


1,078 posted on 01/19/2006 1:44:44 PM PST by memetic
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