When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Religious Affiliation of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
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The signers of the Declaration of Independence were a profoundly intelligent, religious and ethically-minded group. Four of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were current or former full-time preachers, and many more were the sons of clergymen. Other professions held by signers include lawyers, merchants, doctors and educators. These individuals, too, were for the most part active churchgoers and many contributed significantly to their churches both with contributions as well as their service as lay leaders. The signers were members of religious denominations at a rate that was significantly higher than average for the American Colonies during the late 1700s. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2546951/posts
No offense, but I’m not spending the rest of my life here answering questions on every tangent that has ever crossed your mind. I’ve explained my take on Jesus: he was a politician campaigning to be King of Israel and he was killed. That’s my contribution to this thread, I’ve stated the three prophecies I think his biography was groomed to fulfil in order to gain followers, and that subsequent events are largely fictionalized. I really don’t have anything else to add, and if this doesn’t satisfy you, I am sorry. Farewell.
Ahhh I think we’ve struck a nerve....To call Christians cultists, she would also have to call the founding documents of our nation cultish documents...all our laws and founding ideas have at least their root and source in Judeo-Christianity. It must be a living hell for “Lady” to live with the inconsistency as it is for many others on the left..which is why they try so hard to tear our country away from it’s root faith.
“lady” has the right to free speech....those rights having been given to us by God as Christians would claim, yet according to her, Christ is not divine and there-fore can not grant rights, therefor her freedoms have no morally and spiritually transcendent anchor...and rather are only in operation just as long as opponents to those rights can not bring a logical argument to counter those rights and or the naked force to enslave us and take away her rights.
Yet if our rights be ours by God in an organic indwelt way....then no force on Earth can compel a God freed people to give in to evil despotisms. Pharoah commanded the Hebrew midwives to kill the first born male children at birth, but their Fear of God compelled them to ignore Pharoah’s edict!
Where the spirit Of the Lord is, there is liberty!
You’ve gone and done it now, Elsie.