Posted on 01/03/2011 4:44:56 PM PST by iowaguy1972
I started to read over the weekend a new book by Dr. Wayne Grudem, professor of systematic theology at Phoenix Seminary called Politics According to the Bible. In the first chapter he discusses five wrong views about Christians and government. One of those is the view that government should exclude religion. This is the view that is promoted by groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
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They’re at it again Beep.
There is one constitutional phrase at work here . . . and it ain’t “separation of church and state.” All the little Christian haters need to learn the phrase ‘establishment of religion’ and they need to understand what the phrase means.
There is a big difference between “acknowledgement of religion” and “establishment of religion”. The left has continually tried to make these two things equal. It is impossible to logically do so.
Others have no respect for anybody.. or any thing..
And cling to that rule religiously..
They also conveniently ignore the *prohibiting the free exercise thereof* part.
The essays presented at this site are revisions of most of the papers prepared by the authors for delivery at a Library of Congress symposium, "Religion and the Founding of the American Republic," June 18 - 19, 1998.
They are most instructive and they explode a lot of 20th Century Atheist myths about America’s religious history.
I will look into it.
In “America’s Real War,” author Rabbi Daniel Lapin exposes the ACLU as an enclave of atheist Pharisees whose hatred of Jesus Christ and Christians is their real motivation, disguised of course behind a plethora of false concerns. The Americans United for Separation of Church and State is part of an ever-growing New Age spirituality network currently moving with incredible force and speed over and across America.
Both of these worthies (the ACLU and The Americans United for Separation of Church and State) are little more than criminal front groups for the Marxist/Socialist assault on America.
There's absolutely nothing "spiritual" about what these folks are doing, as that word is commonly understood.
Rather, what they're up to goes according to this series of questions:
...[W]hy do important thinkers like Comte (French philosophe par excellence) and Marx (atheist ideologue par excellence) refuse to apperceive what they apperceive quite well? why do they expressly prohibit anybody to ask questions concerning sectors of reality they have excluded from their personal horizon? why do they want to imprison themselves in their restricted horizon and to dogmatize their prison reality as the universal truth? and why do they want to lock up all mankind in the prison of their making?... — Eric Voegelin, "Remembrance of Things Past"Why indeed.
Thanks for the ping, dear YHAOS!
Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ!
He's awesomely good at that, IMHO. You know how much I admire him!
BTW, Richard Geldard cites Voegelin a few times in his Remembering Heraclitus. I haven't yet finished the book. It's pretty interesting so far....
It's great to see you again, dearest sister in Christ!
And I am thrilled to see you again and be back posting - the Christmas Holidays were quite full - blessed, wonderful, engaging but leaving no room for anything else. LOLOL!
I missed you! I hope your Christmas was splendid, blessed, dearest sister in Christ!
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