To: Luis Gonzalez
It means whatever you, as an individual, believe those deities to be.
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On the contrary, as far as our country's founding documents are concerned, it means what it meant to the framers when they drafted that phraseology -- not what it "means to Luis Gonzalez or BenR2." (Strict construction, and all that.)
Last time I checked, there were no Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Wiccans, or New Agers involved in drafting either the Declaration or the Constitution. The concept of God they held was broadly Judaeo-Christian in nature.
There were no references to the Upanishads or the Qur'an in the correspondence of the Founders, as far as I am aware, while there were a plethora of references to the Scriptures.
And that just seems to gall you terribly for some reason unknown to me.
If the commandments on Moore's display are so "Protestant," then please explain to me why there has been some significant Orthodox Jewish and Catholic support for his stand?
43 posted on
08/24/2003 10:07:09 PM PDT by
BenR2
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