Posted on 08/30/2003 11:21:14 PM PDT by garmonbozia
Dear Chief Alabama Justice Roy Moore, I thank thee, thank thee, thank thee for having the temerity to stand up to the United States and the Constitution to make it clear, once and for all, that it is religion that rules this country and not the people and their laws.
I was beginning to lose faith that our top officials would be able to undermine the will of people all over the country, undermine the U.S justice system, and bring some good old fashioned Bible sense back into government.
But people like you, the Reverend Attorney General John Ashcroft and Bishop George Bush have made it clear there's no place in our country for godless souls, or those who believe in those funny-business religions like Hindu, or Can-do or whatever.
I knew, however, that someone in a state like Alabama would come through. Why it was Alabama Congressman George Andrews that set people straight in the 1960s when the U.S. Supreme Court spit on mandatory school prayer. He said, "They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out."
You are absolutely right that our founding fathers came here to make sure this would be God's country and no one else's. Lord only knows what might have happened if the Chinese had gotten here first. I can only rest at night believing that there would have been a lot of big-time smiting going on until we could get here and straighten out those poor heathen Indians.
And how better to make that clear than to put a monument to the American Bible right where all those foreign criminals can see it: your state's highest courthouse?
We know that those Commandments really are the law of the land, and I'm sure it's helpful for those criminals who can read English to learn that they're not supposed to covet my high-definition TV or kill anyone. That is unless that anyone is convicted by a jury of their white peers. Then they need a good smiting, even if the dumb DNA evidence comes back negative later on. I couldn't find any reference to DNA in the Bible, but I'm sure that you'd agree that it's a damned nuisance, because the Good Book spells out just what to do in not only criminal court cases, but civil one's too.
Like in Exodus 21:26 where it says that if a man smite the eye of his slave, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Makes sense to me. You can't have people beating up their slaves to point that they can't see.
There are plenty of other laws in the Bible that you should be posting around the Supreme Court building, too.
Deuteronomy clearly points out in 25:5 that if brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no child, "the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her."
Now, isn't that simpler than all the hooey that Social Services makes about widows and such?
More importantly, though, the Good book spells out what to do in criminal matters, which you should post prominently like the Ten Commandments
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 states" If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son ... Then shall his father and his mother ... bring him out unto the elders of his city ... And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die.
Maybe we should be posting that in the schools instead of the 10 Commandments.
And here' some good advice on how to handle girl's who can't prove they were virgins when they married their husbands:
"Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die." That ought to knock some sense into all those women libbers.
And the Bible, as you know, offers a much more practical law for men caught raping virgins in parks and pastures:
"Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days."
Why go to jail for a few years? Make 'em marry the girl like the Good Book says.
Of course not everything in the Bible is appropriate for posting. There's that tawdry Song of Solomon business. Looks like the music industry was bad news even back then.
But all those laws like the Commandments, which make it clear that you smite and "stone to death" thieves, wives, naughty children, and girls you don't want to keep for yourself, might make people think twice about the need to set straight the US Constitution.
We're lucky here in Aurora. There are plenty of lawmakers, like you, who see the need to make sure the Christian Bible is taught to everyone. People like state Rep. Debbie Stafford, and senators John Andrews and Bruce Cairns are working hard every year to pass legislation that eradicates that pesky line between church and government. Maybe we can finally do away with our godless laws that keeps me from taking a good iron rod and some hefty stones to whichever neighbor it was last year that coveted and stole my snow shovel, just like the Good Book says.
Dave Perry is editor of the Aurora Sentinel. Reach him at 303-750-7555 or editor@aurorasentinel.com
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That beginning says "I'm a puerile ass. Please don't read any further unless you appreciate smarmy sophistry."
Now, isn't that simpler than all the hooey that Social Services makes about widows and such?"
Huh. Shows how much he knows. In most inner city urban areas, nowadays, it's no longer an "either/or" proposition... :)
It is Atheism that has been slowly but surely destroying this nation for the last 50 years or so.
It is time to return to the right and freedom to have a religious belief and practice it, and in turn, to have a moral code that has roots and history that goes back some 6,000 years.
A secular government with no religious attachments or interests is a good thing, but a secular people, with no basis for behaviour, no definition of good or evil, is not.
Translation: "I have no freakin idea what this issue is all about, and I have no intention of ever finding out. The Constitution says whatever I think it says, so neener neener neener."
It is Atheism that has been slowly but surely destroying this nation for the last 50 years or so.
So why did the good moral religious people who made this country great let it go? Where did the "atheists" come from? If this is God's country, as according the the Bible all countries ultimately are, why did God allow atheism to destroy it?
Dan. 4:25 ...the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
It is interesting that God is thanked when things are going the way people like it, but when He does what people don't like, they blame someone else. God is either in charge, or He isn't. Is God fickle?
Hank
I quote you, "perhaps."
Hank
No, Man is fickle.
It is humanity that was given a choice, or free will.
Even in biblical Israel, the people were given free will to choose a King over God as leader, even though they were warned the choice would lead to their ruin as a nation and a people.
The same message applies today.
We have a choice, we have free will.
Question is, will we "see the light" before it is too late, or will we make choices that will bring ruin and a hell on earth for all?
And, if we do make the wrong choices, will God take pity on us and save at least some of us from our own folly?
First of all, there is no such thing as, "free will," as theologians use that term. Its a mixture of volition and "desire," (will) which is absolutely meaningless.
Secondly, what human beings are is volitional. That means, everything any human being does must be done by conscious choice; and that means, human beings are responsible for everything they do, because they chose to do it.
Thirdly, volition does not pertain to, "humanity" or countries or societies. Volition, the ability and necessity of consciously choosing pertains only to individuals.
There is something inherently immoral in collectively judging or dealing with any number of people, from a class of children in school to the citizenry of an entire nation. When individuals are judged on the basis of what some or most people do, it is immoral and unjust, whoever does it, God or man.
Hank
And what did I say?
Choice, or free will.
Close enough for me.
Secondly, humanity, mankind, etc. does not automatically mean a group responsibility, conscious, etc.
I thought my meaning was clear enough..
It is the individual's choice.
You are nit-picking in order to argue, with no point in mind.
Stop it.
Mr. Perry is so angry about "bigotry" that he slipped up and let his own show.
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