Posted on 01/11/2009 6:23:36 AM PST by Kaslin
Newdow is an angry, self-hating, empty oxygen thief. People like him contribute nothing to society except to remind us of the threats that we face.
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***Even liberal Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas—whom no one ever accused of being a member of the Religious Right—wrote, “We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.... When the state encourages religious instruction or cooperates with religious authorities by adjusting the schedule of public events to sectarian needs, it follows the best of our traditions. For it then respects the religious nature of our people and accommodates the public service to their spiritual needs. To hold that it may not would be to find in the Constitution a requirement that the government show a callous indifference to religious groups. That would be preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe. We find no such Constitutional requirement which makes it necessary for government to be hostile to religion and to throw its weight against efforts to widen the effective scope of religious influence.”***
Thanks for the post
maybe the words can be changed to “so help me michael newdow”, or maybe “so help me obama”.
IMHO
If we go by the rules touted by Sandra Day O’Conner, these lawsuits will win. Thank God she is no longer on the court.
To remove God from the public square is to adopt Atheism as the official government religion in violation of the First Amendment.
It’s high time that we permit all religions to openly compete for the souls of men and to insure that it is the force of conscience not government that guides them.
A reference to God is a reference to the Deity or Deities of your choosing, even if that is a concept of chance as some Atheists would have us believe. To try to deny others those choices is exactly what Newdow is doing and why his argument is spurious.
You just have to wonder, what is he afraid of? Why is he so terrified?
It's so sad and pathetic that he feels he needs all this attention. He knows very well that his law suit is baseless and a waste of our time and money, but his need to be in the spotlight apparently takes precedence.
God never gave up on me and I finally came to my senses almost 2 years ago.
It took me until last summer to realize that due to a childhood trauma I was extremely angry at God and had been for decades. Heavenly Father understood all this of course. Over the summer he listened to me rant, rave, and vent at Him and then healed me and forgave me for my anger at Him.
I pray that Newdow comes to his senses because otherwise there will be a pit selected just for him in Hell.
newdow can try anything he wants too though in my heart; God showed the Founding Fathers Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hancock, and all the rest how to set America up and I will still believe in God and America FOREVER!
Oh, I forgot. Praise the Lord, sister in Christ. Your road will not be easy but it will be eternal.
What a great post, thank you for it.
“Undaunted by the facts or the law, Newdow, nevertheless, persists in his war on religion in America. He will not be content until God has been given the heave-ho from the public square.”
I very much doubt that. He sounds like the kind of man who has a deep seated need to oppose something.
Everyone of the atheists that I have met in the past seemed to be just angry period.
“God never gave up on me and I finally came to my senses almost 2 years ago.”
God Bless you!
To incestuously quote myself quoting Jefferson from the article I posted here yesterday on the tangential topic “What’s behind Jefferson’s ‘Wall’”:
“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time...And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure if we have lost the only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are to be violated but with His wrath?”
-Jefferson
Jackass, selfish atheists are nothing new (rest in pieces Madeline Murray O’Hare). The real problem lies in phony (or at least severely biblically ignorant) Christians like Obama who will have the power to appoint SC justices who may well one day erroneously side with jerks like Newdow.
As I said yesterday:
...the court’s theft of power was complete by the time Chief Justice Rehnquist, in a disgusted dissenting opinion (Jaffree), reminisced about our fist President George. Washington, on THE VERY DAY the First Amendment passed Congress and at THEIR behest, proclaimed a day of “public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God.” Wrote Rehnquist regarding that event: “History must judge whether it was the Father of our country in 1789, or...the Court...which has strayed from the meaning of the Establishment Clause.”
To those who read these quotes and the rest yesterday, I apologize for repeating myself.
To those who think Obama is the Messiah, will it ok for him to finish the oath with “so help me Dad”?
I'm not a perfect Christian and still commit sins every day but I've cut out 99.99.99% of my cursing, read the bible every day and attempt to attend Sunday school and church most Sunday's. I WANTED to change and HAVE changed for the better because the Lord entered my life and accepted me back into His family. I WANT to please Him in everything I say and do.
Oh, please. You can’t evict God from anywhere. You can outlaw him, perhaps, but that hasn’t stopped him yet.
“I’m not a perfect Christian...”
There’s only ever been one of those.
And don’t fret too much about your remaining .01% of cursing. It is not what the “thou shalt not take God’s name in vain” commandment was about anyway - unless you’re cursing God.
Good luck and God bless!
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