Posted on 08/16/2003 12:12:19 PM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
We are Christians, Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox, denouncing the Democratic party as constitutionally anti-Christian. DNC: The Godless Party, Practical Atheism - Touchstone, April, June 03
The thermometer results show that white fundamentalists have positive feelings toward Catholics. Their score of 62 degrees was identical to the average score that Jews gave to Catholics and significantly warmer than the mean rating given to Catholics by the religiously nonaffiliated or by secularists. Our Secularist Democratic Party (Long, Important Analysis)
For the average American today, as for the average individual in Nietzsche's Germany, it simply makes no practical difference whether God exists or not. This is true in spite of those polls that show that 98 percent of Americans believe in God. Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the Death of God
Now, 25 years later, I am ashamed to be a Democrat. More than that, I have come to fear my own party. Hatred and corruption - the roots of fascism - are on the march in America as they have never been before, and leading this march is the Democratic Party. Increasingly, mainstream Democrats are uncomfortable with what we see in our party. We may not have a real name for it, but we know it is dangerous. DNC Fascists -WorldNetDaily, Bob Just, July 25, 2000
Aldrich is afraid the Hard-Left might use American national security and our War on Terrorism as a veil for its goal of a massive authoritarian government. Book Review: Thunder on the Left by Gary Aldrich
In those affidavits, two scientists, a philosopher, a theologian, and an educator, all of whom claim extensive knowledge of creation science, swear that it is essentially a collection of scientific data supporting the theory that the physical universe and life within it appeared suddenly, and have not changed substantially since appearing. SCALIA, J., Dissenting Opinion Edwards v. Aguillard, 482 U.S. 578 (1987) (USSC+)
Harvard Professor Steven Wise summarizes this radical revolution in legal theory occasioned by the adoption of Darwin's principles:
"To understand the strong normative appeal of evolutionary models, one must first appreciate that American law, like biology at the time of Darwin, faces the problem of providing a theory of creation which does not invoke a Supreme Being." E Donald Elliott, "The Evolutionary Tradition in Jurisprudence," 85 Columbia Law Review 38, 91 (1985). Elliott, who believes that the manner in which law is affected by the ideas that it routinely borrows from other disciplines has been largely unexplored, sets sail by chronicling how the Darwinian idea of evolution has affected the jurisprudential work of such legal scholars as Holmes, Wigmore and Corbin. Id. See also Jan Vetter, The Evolution of Holmes, Holmes and Evolution, 72 Cal. L. Rev. 343, 362 (1984) ("Holmes' The Common Law is first of all an account of legal change, and its object in this respect is to exhibit the workings of Darwinian evolution in law"). Evolutionary jurisprudence was often shunned during the middle half of the twentieth century due to that period's association of evolution with Spencer's racist and reactionary Social Darwinism. Elliott, at 59, 76. It is shunned no longer. Id. See Roger D. Masters, Evolutionary Biology, Political Theory and the State, in Law, Biology & Culture-The Evolution of Law 171 (Margaret Gruter & Paul Bohannon eds., 1983). [225] Do Laws and Standards Evolve?
The real danger of societal evolution rests, then, not in the fact that corrections are needed but rather in the fact that those "corrections" are made by a small, elite, and unaccountable group-and often by individuals whose personal values do not reflect those of "we the people." Evolution and the Law:
Pearcey analyzes "the crucial role played by the Darwinian view of origins" in the development of American legal philosophy. "Darwinism is not only a biological theory," she emphasizes; "it is also the basis for a comprehensive world view -- implying a new philosophy of mind, knowledge, morality, and law." Pearcey sees a direct connection between Darwinism and the postmodern view that "the only objective and absolute truth is that there are no objective and absolute truths." She argues that a "thorough-going critique" of judicial activism "must begin with Darwinism as a scientific theory." Pearcey advocates taking "the intellectual battle into science itself. The controversy over Darwin versus design is not a peripheral issue," she insists, "but lies at the heart of the cultural crisis of our day." Darwinian Roots of Judicial Activism
"I've been predicting this for 20 years - that ultimately this theory of the living Constitution will destroy us, it will destroy the federal courts," Scalia said. WorldNetDaily: Scalia: Supreme Court jester
When Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the rest of that majority six-pack engage the lexicon of the "living and breathing" Constitution, unscrupulously asserting that the Founders intended it to have the oozy flexibly to conform to each capricious whim of the American people - not to mention conformity with foreign constitutions, their 'astute observations' are alarmingly consistent with the thinking of the central figure of the foregoing assessment - Karl Marx, author of The Communist Manifesto. SCOTUS:Desperately Seeking Nietzsche And Marx
To the question, "Can the state acknowledge God?" Judge Moore says not only "Yes!" but, more importantly, "It must!" He realizes that to fail to do so wipes out hundreds of years of Western civilization based on the rule of law, and ushers in an age where the law is whatever the presiding judge says it is. Just look at Supreme Court Judge Sandra Day O'Connor's flip flop on sodomy between 1989 and 2003.
Our nation's morality isn't being destroyed by activist judges - it is being destroyed by atheist judges, and it is time for God-fearing Americans to stand up and say: "Enough is enough!"Judicial atheism: Separation of God and state
Prayer has been purged from our schools. The Ten Commandments have been taken down from courthouse walls. It is now unconstitutional for Scripture verses to be displayed in national parks. Freedoms once taken for granted have been stripped away in the name of tolerance—and this has been done without a single law being passed.Atheists, Activist Courts And Constitutional Ignorance
The biblical paradigm of God > life > choice > sex proves to be the only foundation for civil rights in a free society, apart from which the only alternative known in human history is a slide toward some form of tyranny. It reflects God's sovereignty toward our fledgling nation that on the one hand strove for freedom and justice, but on the other hand had its full measure of sin. As Jefferson sought some higher authority than King George III to appeal to for unalienable rights - the only such authority ever set forth in human history was the Creator, the God of the Bible. Unalienable rights are those rights which are above any human authority to define, restrict, remove or otherwise separate from the individual and family unit. The Bill of Rights (the first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution), and especially the First Amendment, are rooted here (as we shall later examine). Only found in the God of Only Genesis. Genesis and the Declaration of Independence
The rest of the table demonstrates that secular voters and most religious minorities fell squarely in the Democratic camp. Secular voters favored Gore over Bush by an almost two-to-one margin. FT October 2001: America Fifty/Fifty
Nearly four-in-ten (38%) say they would not vote for a well-qualified Muslim for president, and 15% express concern about voting for a well-qualified evangelical Christian. Far fewer say they would not vote for a Jewish (10%) or Catholic (8%) candidate. But fully half say they would not vote for a well-qualified atheist. Religion and Politics: Contention and Consensus
mind-numbed products of a gov'mint education
It does no good to argue ideas with those who will respond as brutes. Clarence Thomas
Those who have been fooled into thinking they evolved from brutes will probably act like it.
"They're like Napoleon's army in Moscow. They have occupied a lot of territory, and they think they've won the war. And yet they are very exposed in a hostile climate with a population that's very much unfriendly."
"That's the case with the Darwinists in the United States. The majority of the people are skeptical of the theory. And if the theory starts to waver a bit, it could all collapse, as Napoleon's army did in a rout."
For the work of a supposed Omniscient Omnipitent God it is really a piss poor shoddy design.
It is so clumsey that we have been improving on it for thousands of years with breeding programs for plants and animals, and will soon be doing it to ourselves by direct genetic manipulation.
So9
"Darwinism" is a dead horse. No reputable scientist supports it anymore.
"Evolution" is another story. Punctuated Equilibrium is overwhelmingly supported.
So9
Socialized education is at emnity (( war )) with freedom and private education ... independence of anything --- thinking is forbidden --- BLOCKED by infantile crippled minds --- radiation by lies - evolution !
Watch how these control freaks show up on these threads ... mind benders --- social engineers --- overlords on a troll stalk - kill !
You would think the management would notice !
Personally, I believe Darwin's theory is a big farce. There is a "behind" and "ahead" to evolution. And since evolution is incapable of stopping, they should be able to project your 200th relative, species that will naturally become extinct and new species that will come about. They haven't even begun to unravel the mysteries of life.
Evolution is far better supported than Gravity.
Both are Hypotheses.
Quantum Gravity of one sort or another, Relativistic Gravity, or even Newtonian Gravity have scientific proponents. The nature of Gravity has far less of a consensus than the nature of Evolution.
But things still fall and evolve.
So9
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