Posted on 11/11/2010 8:25:24 PM PST by pelican001
So much for being a secular nation with Karl Marx's "separation of Chruch and State."
“”Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!””
It is such a beautiful video and so good to see people who still hunger for liberty and those who have already served our country in the military, serve to remind us once again.
WOW! I think this out to be mandatory at any place where the Anthem is sung.
For all four stanzas:
http://www.usa-flag-site.org/song-lyrics/star-spangled-banner.shtml
and if you want a little history about them, each stanza is explained:
http://www.purewatergazette.net/asimov.htm
Wow! That was awesome!
Thank you!
So don't get me wrong here, but I must correct something you wrote:
> So much for being a secular nation with Karl Marx's "separation of Chruch and State."
Please check your understanding of American History.
That phrase originated with the third U.S. President, Thomas Jefferson, in 1802, in a private letter to the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut. The phrase does not appear in the Constitution (nor Declaration of Independence), and it is most certainly not attributable to Karl Marx. Jefferson's sentence containing the phrase is:
"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."He was speaking of the First Amendment's prohibition against Congress getting in the way of religious freedom. The "separation" was for the protection of religious freedom.
I respectfully suggest that you read up a bit on this topic; I think you'll find it interesting.
Best FRegards,
Dayglored
That Marine has one hell of a set of pipes.
Well, I have a problem with the "modern construction", insofar as it endeavors to actively deny the influence of religion on our Constitutional government. It is perfectly clear that the principles underlying the Constitution relied on notions from the Judeo-Christian scripture, as well as English common law and other European laws and traditions.
And yet the Founders were wise to ensure that their new Constitution did not allow the federal government to interfere in the matters of religion, or impose their particular religious preferences on the citizens of the new Nation. Recall that at the time of the Founding, a number of the colonies had official State Religions. It was crucial for the success of the new federal government that it stay out of the states' rights to self-determination with regard to religion.
A federal government that "makes no law regarding an establishment of religion" may (IMO) still recognize and acknowledge various religions. That is where the modern secular construction has gone astray, as I see it.
Where it has gone astray is that it has imported foreign ideas. John Dewey is forgotten but he had enormous influence on our society, because his ideas are propogated by the public schools. he began as a Hegelian, and then abandoned any notion of the “Absolute.” Yet for him the democratic state is kind of put in place of it, and “democracy” becomes a means to an end. He stands at the very end of the New England Puritan tradition, but heavily influenced by German idealism.
Brain fart.
I appreciate the philosophical tip, and hope you have a good evening!
Best FRegards,
Dayglored
The last verse is my very favorite.
thx for posting the entire text
On their own property, a citizen can have pretty much any religion they please, or none if they please, as long as they obey the applicable law with regard to behavior. The federal government can't force them either way.
But neither can the left excise every last vestige of religion from publicly-funded life. That's just so contrary to the intent of the Founders, it boggles my mind.
Thank You
We agree in this. And I hope we can agree as well that your
opine can easily be affirmed in the Commentaries of Joseph Story,son of one of the “indians” of the Boston Tea Party,
appointed to the US supreme Court ,by James Madison,Author of Commentaries on the US Constitution that even today are recognized by Constitutional scholars as reflecting “original intent”, memorialized in the permanent display of the US supreme court building as few American lawmakers were, forgotten by the American people —IT was the general if not
universal sentiment in America when the Amendment under consideration (the first) was adopted -that Christianity ought receive encouragement from the State.... an attempt to
level all religions or to make it a matter of State policy to hold all in utter indifference would have met with universal disapprobation if not universal indignation. With
appologies to the more eloquent Mr.Joseph Story.
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