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To: tpaine
So it boils down to the fact that you are saying I am right, Constitution and Country above God.

Then way the quote on your home page? Is the idea that our rights are a gift of God a lie? Why the word Creator in the document that started the journey:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creatorwith certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

Is there some Creator other than God? Is it Jefferson and the men who "created" the constitution? Some magic stone? Some random happenstance?

Are you saying the Founding Fathers we not men of faith?

Did not the Founding Fathers themselves put God and family first above country in the very fact that they formed this nation?

I think you will find many around here that believe our success, prosperity, and outlook comes from a power greater than the Constitution.

I want to learn and you seem to know more than I do.

Teach me.

253 posted on 09/02/2007 6:25:14 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (I don't use a sarcasm tag, it kills the effect...)
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To: ejonesie22
Why the word Creator in the document that started the journey:

"-- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness --"

Great concept, -- one that still makes perfect sense if modified as below:

'-- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are born equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness --'

Did not the Founding Fathers themselves put God and family first above country in the very fact that they formed this nation?

I think the Founding Fathers put our Constitutions principles, our rule of law, above all in the forming of this nation.

People and/or families have many different concepts of God. Much of the political strife of Europe was based on that fact. -- Our Constitution was designed, in part, to end those differences.

257 posted on 09/02/2007 7:16:54 AM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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