Posted on 04/29/2010 12:48:46 PM PDT by markomalley
A religious watchdog group says a cross and motto on the emblem of an Army hospital in Colorado violate the constitutional requirement for separation of church and state and should be removed.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation asked the Army this week to change the emblem of Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson, outside Colorado Springs.
The emblem says "Pro deo et humanitate" or "For God and humanity."
Fort Carson commanders will review the complaint, Lt. Col. Steve Wollman said.
He said the emblem had been approved by the Army Institute of Heraldry and has been in use since 1969.
Wollman said references to doctors serving God and humanity date to the time of Hippocrates, a pre-Christianity Greek physician.
Wollman said the cross, which has a pointed base, is both an emblem of mercy and a symbol dating to the Middle Ages, when pilgrims carried a cross with a spiked base to mark the site of a camp.
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tell themit’s a sword or a stake to drive through the hearts of libtard vampires (though it has to be a big stake becuase they have little black hearts leaking bile).
These people have too much time on their hands. Someone needs to tell them to get a life.
The emblem says "Pro deo et humanitate" or "For God and humanity." ...has been in use since 1969. Wollman said references to doctors serving God and humanity date to the time of Hippocrates, a pre-Christianity Greek physician.
Correct, the constitution does not use the terms “separation of church and state”.
Clarification: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof:” This pertains to a “national” religion.
Massachusetts had a state religion, and it was constitutional to do so.
Even though, Congress was forbidden, the continuous lawsuits, have allowed activist judges to remove religion and push us toward a secular society, which I am getting tired of after more than 60 years of this crap.
Why can't the secularists and atheists quit their proselytizing and pushing their agnostic sects on the majority of the people in the US?
You are correct...on all points.
Maybe it will come to the point where Christians will wear crosses on their person, daily, as part of their clothing, NOT just jewelry.
Send the God hating commies batty raging mad.
Enough with this secular nonsense.
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I can't handle it - if I'm going to even crack open FR and read news, I owe it to myself to ping.
Leftists will never stop until they are either defeated - soundly - or they destroy everything that is of value. There is no possibility of compromise, reason, give and take, with them, any more than you can tame a wild boar. Wild boars are peaceable and tame and rational compared to leftists. When are enough people going to get righteously angry? What will it take to stop them?
There is no such thing as "separation of church and state" - and what they mean by it is "An atheist/gay/Muslim loving/secularist/religion repressing (except for Islam of course)/tyranny is what the founders really had in mind".
It’s not that they have too much time.
It’s that their time is dedicated to destruction of all that gives strength and meaning to our country. They are driven. They search out and scour religious symbols to eradicate. They have teams.
What will it take to stop them?
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We must get the nation’s children out of the grasp of the Marxists and into private conservative schools. We must work to shut down their temples of leftism ( EVERY GOVERNMENT K-12 SCHOOL!)
That will do it.
I agree. Sending children to public school is tantamount to child abuse. They will be indoctrinated. And institutions of higher learning are mostly all pits as well. There used to be a list floating around FR of conservative colleges and universities. Very few. Most are total hellholes of ultra leftism.
If I remember correctly the red cross represents caring for those hurt during war while the white cross symbolizes caring for those hurt during times of peace.
One of the members of the 4 yr old hate organization MRFF is the former ambassador and spouse of supersecret-double-ought-deep-cover spytress Valerie Plame... the tea-swilling, Niger yellowcake-denying francophile associate of Alamoudi known as “Joseph Wilson.”
The MRFF Board of Directors is headed by Kristen Leslie (an assistant professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Yale Divinity School), and David Antoon (a former U.S. Air Force commander who vocally opposes the "extreme Evangelical coercive overtones influencing the Academy."
Some notable members of the MRFF Advisory Board are former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson; Smita Singh, Director of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Global Development Program; and Richard T. Schlosberg III, the immediate past President and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
It is very hard for a rich man to get into heaven.
What “constitutional” requirement for “separation of church and state”??????
What aggravates me about religion attackers is that most of them have never actually read any of the scriptures they are criticizing.
...... the tea-swilling, Niger yellowcake-denying, cheese-eating francophile associate of Alamoudi known as Joseph Wilson.
I knew I forgot something!
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