To: jcb1379
I think you are being silly.
the Preamble
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
There is no such concept in Islam. The very word blessings speaks of a divine nature which come from the God of the Bible. Not allah.
It comes from Psalms: "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord."
To: I got the rope
Blessing when taken as you intend it does indeed seem to come from God. When it is taken as it is MEANT, however, it refers to all those things to which Liberty entitles us. It is not used in the religious context in the preamble. It is used in the "something promoting or contributing to happiness, well-being, or prosperity" sense (answers.com). Kinda like how a father gives his blessing to the marriage of his daughter and her fiance. Or do you mean to imply that every father that has ever "blessed" his daughter's marriage is a proxy for God? I would hardly say we are a blessed nation, either. Have you seen San Francisco lately? Or the state of protection for the unborn? Or respect for the beauty of each individual based on his creation by the same God that created us all? Perhaps "blessed" in the secular sense, in that we are very prosperous, but I would say we are in trouble when it comes to the moral state of our nation.
226 posted on
01/26/2007 1:56:53 PM PST by
jcb1379
To: I got the rope
There is no such concept in Islam. The very word blessings speaks of a divine nature which come from the God of the Bible. Not allah. Muslims do not reject the Law of the Bible. Just Christ's divinity, and a few other things. Islam is layed down on top for Christianity, not in absentia from it.
229 posted on
01/26/2007 2:01:19 PM PST by
presidio9
(There is something wonderful about a country that produces a brave and humble man like Wesley Autrey)
To: I got the rope
Well isn't that your own interpretation and personal opinion about Islam? You have your freedom of speech but your first ammendment right can not infringe upon mine in freely exercising my Constitutional right as an American.
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