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| 10/18/2011
| Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich
Posted on 10/19/2011 11:02:35 AM PDT by Yosemitest
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To: La Enchiladita
"Our government is SECULAR."
You need to get an education.
I recommend more study.
(excerpt)
1. Patent Untruths
Numerous history texts make claims such as: our national government was secular from top to bottom,
or that the Founders reared a national government on a secular basis.
Those who have studied the American Founding know that this is a patent untruth
proved by numbers of Founders, including John Adams, who declared:The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.
This approach usually relies on a general lack of public knowledge about that untruth; consequently, such untruthful claims are rarely made in areas where citizens have broad general knowledge(such as claiming that James Madison used an atomic bomb to end the Civil War,
or that the first sub-machine gun was developed in 1536 in Nevada by the Quakers).
Revisionism relies on a lack of citizen knowledge in specific areas.
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posted on
10/19/2011 2:43:31 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple: Fight or Die)
To: La Enchiladita
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posted on
10/19/2011 2:44:55 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple: Fight or Die)
To: Yosemitest
Unalienable. Not inalienable.
To: 68stanger
if he cannot honor a vow he made to his wife in front of GodThere are civil laws in this country that regulate marriage, whether we like it or not people can and do get divorced. My first wife divorced me, thank God for I have now been with my saving grace for 38 years. It jus might be because I sought the woman I needed through prayer. Just saying.
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posted on
10/19/2011 2:48:46 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(NWO, brought to you by fake Texans. Protect the legacy by electing another Texan. Got it.)
To: BenKenobi
As an unmarried young CatholicMaybe you can get the same get out of jail cards that the Pope gave the Kennedy's?
Money doesnt matter to God, but it certainly matters to mortals.
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posted on
10/19/2011 2:53:29 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(NWO, brought to you by fake Texans. Protect the legacy by electing another Texan. Got it.)
To: Yosemitest
You honestly do not make sense.
You are free to be intolerant but your intolerance is not sanctioned by the founding principles of this nation, as you claim.
YOU are the one who needs a history lesson.
To: itsahoot
And that’s why I’m not giving Gingrich a pass, sorry.
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posted on
10/19/2011 3:28:12 PM PDT
by
BenKenobi
(Honkeys for Herman! 10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government)
To: La Enchiladita
More study links:
"Has it [government] any solid foundation? any chief cornerstone ... ?
I think it has an everlasting foundation in the unchangeable will of God, the Author of Nature whose laws never vary.
... Government ... is by no means an arbitrary thing depending merely on compact or human will for its existence.
... The power of God Almighty is the only power that can properly and strictly be called supreme and absolute.
In the order of nature immediately under Him comes the power of a simple democracy, or the power of the whole over the whole.
... [God is] the only monarch in the universe who has a clear and indisputable right to absolute power because He is the only one who is omniscient as well as omnipotent.
... The sum of my argument is that civil government is of God, that the administrators of it were originally the whole people."- United States Founding Father, A leader of the Sons of Liberty, Mentor of Samuel Adams, James Otis, "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved", (Boston and London: J.Williams and J. Almon, 1766), pp. 11-13, 98
"The only true basis of all government is the laws of God and nature.For government is an ordinance of Heaven, designed by the all benevolent Creator".
... we will look, for the permanency and stability of our new government, to him who bringeth Princes to nothing, and teacheth Senators wisdom. By order of the House
House of Assembly,
JOHN HART, Speaker.
Sept. 24, 1776.
"Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness.
... We claim them from a higher source--from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth.
[W]hatsoever State among us shall continue to make piety [respect for God] and virtue the standard of public honor will enjoy the greatest inward peace, the greatest national happiness, and in every outward conflict will discover the greatest constitutional strength. -- The Works of John Witherspoon (Edinburgh: J. Ogle, 1815), Vol. IV, p. 270, from his Sermon Delivered at Public Thanksgiving After Peace. (emphasis added)
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posted on
10/19/2011 3:36:30 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple: Fight or Die)
To: petitfour
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posted on
10/19/2011 3:41:39 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple: Fight or Die)
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posted on
10/19/2011 3:51:33 PM PDT
by
TheOldLady
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To: La Enchiladita
Prove your point with links.
Show me "Separation of Church and State" in the US Constitution.
It's not there.
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posted on
10/19/2011 4:05:25 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple: Fight or Die)
To: Gator113
Thank you for the kind words. I am imperfect. I try to be a good son, and a good dad to my children and granchildren. My wife and I are taking care of my elderly and disabled mother, while raising our oldest grandchild and housing my eldest daughter and her family. Times are tough, and family need to pull together.
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posted on
10/19/2011 9:11:32 PM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
To: BenKenobi
It's offensive because it's true. Let it go.
Described as a "nominal Southern Baptist" when philanderer, Newt's been attending Catholic mass with wife Callista for a decade and became a formal convert to Catholicism a few years ago.
To: savagesusie
Holmes only reflected the opinion of the time, the naturalism that became dominant during the last forty years of the century. That said, Holmes was deeply scared by the war. I am not sure that he believed in anything after the idealism he brought from his father’s house proved an illusion. Reconstruction was largely fruitless, and it tarnished the great result of the war, the end of slavery. In a sense, Holmes became a dead man walking.
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posted on
10/20/2011 12:20:42 AM PDT
by
RobbyS
(Pray with the suffering souls.)
To: newzjunkey
Just like we forgive Kennedy for Chappaquiddick?
Cheating on your wife is NOT ok. I don’t care who you are.
Cheating on your sick and dying wife, is NOT ok.
I’m not going to give him a pass on his ‘indescretions’, because they demonstrate a serious failing of Newt’s character.
You want to vote for Newt, fine. But I’m going to stick with Cain who’s can at least keep it in his pants.
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posted on
10/20/2011 12:38:23 AM PDT
by
BenKenobi
(Honkeys for Herman! 10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government)
To: sanjuanbob
I’m not quite sure how my handle is at all unusual...
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posted on
10/20/2011 1:21:59 AM PDT
by
BenKenobi
(Honkeys for Herman! 10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government)
To: Yosemitest
Newt always has the best answers, and this was one of them. Too bad he’s a weasel, but I do appreciate his intellect.
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posted on
10/20/2011 4:16:55 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
To: MrB
Well said. And that is what the progressives are hoping to change. And, unfortunately, they have succeeded in many areas.
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posted on
10/20/2011 4:20:08 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
To: newzjunkey
Described as a "nominal Southern Baptist" when philanderer, Newt's been attending Catholic mass with wife Callista for a decade and became a formal convert to Catholicism a few years ago.
I can't give someone like Lohan a pass for past indiscretions. I can't give her a pass because she demonstrates that she is not going to change, and will continue to walk the road to ruin.
Newt before his conversion walked that same road, and has demonstrated a willingness to change. I have to take that at face value and hearing his political thought I like that I see. I often pray for mercy, but God teaches us mercy is ours only if we show mercy to others.
If Cain was not in the race I would back Newt.
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posted on
10/20/2011 5:45:09 AM PDT
by
Dominick
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
To: RobbyS
True—but only the elite at that time adopted the German Postmodern Philosophy and stuck it in all our Universities and started (with Dewey) to trickle it into curricula in the elementary schools. All publishers started to promote their concepts of law, culture, et al. to destroy Christianity. and create a collective society.
The utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin’s politics are not compatible with our Constitution but they sneaked in that philosophy to obliterate Natural Law Theory and the idea of God—Supra Positive Law and the laws of nature. Now we have arbitrary made up “laws” such as two men are designed to be married too”. It is all irrational now. (Insane, really).
Worldview matters—those who think you can teach atheism to young children and they will have the ability to believe in God are not being realistic.....all education has a bias....some biases—that of Christianity—are superior to the Postmodernism/atheism of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pot and no moral absolutes. God==particularly the rational religion of Christianity—makes for superior cultures where all people have the possibility of dignity and worth and have Free Will.
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