Posted on 03/29/2007 1:41:03 PM PDT by Bruinator
By Charles Babb For The Christian Chronicle
SEARCY, ARK. — Attacks leveled at those of faith represent a great threat against America, a federal appeals court judge said at Harding University.
Judge Janice Rogers Brown, a member of the Silver Spring, Md., church, spoke on “Faith and Freedom” as part of Harding’s American Studies Institute lecture series.
“In my view, Christianity at its best is the foundation of reason and liberty,” said Brown, a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. “The true American religious tradition, the one that disciplines power, subjugating it to reason, truth and, ultimately, an all-powerful God, is not a threat to liberty but its best defender.”
Brown said those who attack the religious right “essentially argue (that) the true American religion demands acceptance of, indeed submission to, a common political vision — their vision.”
In the 20th century, secular humanism crept into American and Western governments, promising openness and tolerance for diverse groups, religions and philosophies, she said.
“What we got was narrow positivism, moral relativism and the totalitarian reign of the radical multiculturalist,” Brown said. “It promised peace. What we got was a process of permanent revolution, tumult, strife and a ceaseless assault upon the foundations of faith, family and civil society. It promised if not the pursuit of truth, at least rationality and acknowledgment of objective reality. What we got was postmodernism.” The battle, in her view, is not political but theological: “Contrary to the prevailing secularist dogma ... a society cannot exist without a fighting faith. Where society has nothing to die for, it has nothing to live for and cannot long survive.”
Could it be that Charles Robb is finally seeing the evil of his party? One can only pray that is true.
Is Charles Robb finally recognizing the evil that has taken over his once great, well at least far greater than it is today, party? One can only pray this is the case.
Phillip Jenkins, distinguished professor of history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University, has recently argued, that anti-Catholicism (may be read as anti-Christianity) is the last acceptable American prejudice.
(See Phillip Jenkins, THE NEW ANTI-CATHOLICISM: THE LAST ACCEPTABLE PREJUDICE. Oxford University Press. 2993)
Sorry, that's 2003.
If anyone here has been looking at the threads over the past couple of years, they will see that it is the RR doing most of the attacking. They are attacking anyone who believes a president should be representing all the people not just the RR. They are attacking every candidate who they believe puts the security of America first, and social issues a distant second.
With all due respect to the judge, I think she is confusing those who want a conservative agenda for our lawmakers rather than a religious agenda with the real enemies of religious thought.
She seems unaware that our culture is changing, and not necessarily for the better, but that is the purview of the people, not our elected officials. I would only hope that if she is nominated for something higher, she can distinguish between her duties as a jurist and her personal religious beliefs should the two come into conflict. Sometimes there will be discord, and if she cannot separate the two, she may not be the conservative most of us believed her to be.
Is Janice Rogers Brown a member of the Church of Christ?
Charles Robb Charles Babb?
"If anyone here has been looking at the threads over the past couple of years, they will see that it is the RR doing most of the attacking."
That is delusional nuttiness, pure and simple.
Hmmm. So you wouldn't consider a label of being a treasonous cretin if you support Rudy as an attack? Then, how about Nazi, Commie, Satan? Still think it's delusional nuttiness (which in itself is an attack)?
There are numerous seats that she could usefully fill: those of Ginsberg, Stevens, Souter, Kennedy or Breyer. The sooner the better. When she has filled one of those seats, may the other four fall swiftly vacant and be filled by young and hard-core justices, appointed by a hard-core president and approved by a Senate back in GOP hands and run by conservatives.
Kids used to pray in school - lefty laws now forbid it.
Abortion used to be shameful and discouraged - lefty laws now encourage it.
Homosexuality seen as shameful - lefty laws seek to enshrine it with marriage.
Christmas trees and religious displays were once celebrated in public - lefty laws now harras them anywhere but in the home.
You know this list could go on indefinitely, but the point is that the religious right is just trying to keep the freedoms they have enjoyed in this country for centuries. Lefty laws seek to forbid those freedoms.
LOL, must have been my dyslexia playing tricks with me again. Sometimes I see things as they are not.
Yes.
A GOP not based upon and absolutely dedicated to social conservatism and the RTKBA does not deserve to exist any more than did its Whig and Federalist predecessors.
Please check freepmail I sent you.
Post #17 was not directed at you other than to ping you on behalf of the Fred Thompson and Ann Coulter lists.
Agree! I'd love to see Ms. Brown on the Court.
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