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To: RJS1950

So for you the US Constitution is greater than God Almighty - got it.


645 posted on 11/08/2012 10:49:27 AM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: svcw; RJS1950

There is a dialogue in the Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis where Screwtape is explaining politics to Wormwood that I think we see a lot of on here...

Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and gradually nurse him on to the stage at which the religion becomes merely part of the “cause”... Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours — and the more “religious” (on those terms) the more securely ours. I could show you a pretty cageful down here...

Sound familiar?


646 posted on 11/08/2012 11:07:09 AM PST by reaganaut (Kyrie eleison...Christe eleison...Kyrie eleison)
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To: svcw

That is a leap of illogic.

The U.S. Constitution IS more important than SOMEBODY ELSE’S denominational beliefs because it is the basis for all of our freedoms including religious freedoms.

The elections, politics, our way of life depend on adherance to the Constitutional principles of freedom. The Constitutional principles were derived from Christian religious principles; multiple denominational beliefs and not just one narrow Christian view of God. The founding fathers extended that religious freedom to ALL religions, and by default even islam which does not deserve recognition as a true religion. If Romney had was a muslim it would be an entirely different matter. Mormonism is not the same as it was 150 years ago any more than most other Christian denominations are what they were then. Quit taking the philosophy of if your hand offends God, cut it off.

You’ve got nothing and know nothing about me or what I believe so close up that orfice you spew that crap from.


652 posted on 11/08/2012 11:37:59 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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