Posted on 11/06/2002 9:25:58 PM PST by general_re
1/18/02 5:45 p.m.
WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE History of SB 6500SB 6500 Requiring that textbooks and curriculum shall teach the self-evident truth of creation.
Sponsors: Senators Hochstatter
-- 2002 REGULAR SESSION --
Jan 18 First reading, referred to Education.
I think we can probably read the dates to mean it died in committee ;)
I don't have a clue about the status, just ran into the text of the bill and believed it had some bearing on the rationale.
If that rationale is correct, a move to a national policy of radical materialism would require renouncing the Declaration of Independence and hence, the concept of how unalienable rights are endowed.
I don't have a clue how the legislative mill works in the state of Washington - how long a bill stays in committee, etc.
‘And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father’ (Revelation 1:6)
"John echoes Yahweh's words, spoken at the Exodus. He told Israel that they would be a kingdom and a priesthood. The same words are now applied to the church. The community of faith is to be a kingdom in the sense that God will reign in it. But there is a sense in which the power of the kingdom will be shared by its citizenry. Compare Revelation 5:10 ‘They will reign on the earth.’
"John lived in the ancient east where kings were proverbial for their absolute power, and splendid lifestyle. For those who join with Christ, life is full of privileges. The first and primary privilege is the liberation from the deadening burden of sin (1:5). But other brimming satisfactions follow."
"Jesus predicted that those who cast their lot in with him, would discover surprising joys. He pictured a poor ploughman; toiling day and night to make ends meet. One day his plough turned up a casket of treasures. From that day forward life was decked with overflowing benefits. Some of them are listed in the Beatitudes. ‘Blessed are the poor, theirs is the kingdom of heaven; blessed are those who hunger, for they will be satisfied; blessed are they that... weep---for they will laugh’ (Luke 6:20,21).
Paul adds this thought: ‘We are heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ’ (Romans 8:17)
"There is a quality of life that God intends for us. For now, it is principally known in the spiritual blessings that are ours in Christ. A day will come when the material world will correspondingly yield a bounty to us."
The interesting part of the bill, to me at least, is the rationale used in describing the disconnect between the Federal and State Constitution and the teaching of evolution. If we see such a bill again either in Washington state or elsewhere, it will be instructive to compare the language IMHO!
‘I am the truth. . ..’(John 14:6)
"For most of time, men and women have assumed that the truth was there to be found out. This began to change in the 19th century and the change gathered pace in the 20th. As people began to question the existence of God, it became obvious to some, that the existence of truth requires the existence of God. With God dismissed, it became impossible to conceive of truth in any absolute sense. This has resulted in the humiliation of truth. Truth is now whatever you would like it to be."
"Truth's demise has filtered down through the great centers of learning, the arts, and on into streets and homes. Everything is possible with truth gone. Everything is permissible. Musicians make music that doesn't sound musical. Painters paint pictures that are incomprehensible to normal folk. Playwrights write plays that are nonsense, and architects design buildings that no one can understand. All this is put forward as legitimate, but what does it all mean?"
"No matter how much... popular culture---is encouraged to believe in the relativity of truth, no one can build a decent life on such a notion."
"Inevitably proponents of freedom from God, and from absolute truth, are obliged to reach outside of their own system, and borrow something from theism in order to make their lives work."
"The person who believes that everything is valid, will soon find that he is condemned to meaninglessness. Christ is a standing offer of escape from such a hell as this To believe that truth is like Christ, is salvation indeed."
Originally the word liberal meant social conservatives(no govt religion--none) who advocated growth and progress---mostly technological(knowledge being absolute/unchanging)based on law--reality... UNDER GOD---the nature of GOD/man/govt. does not change. These were the Classical liberals...founding fathers-PRINCIPLES---stable/SANE scientific reality/society---industrial progress...moral/social character-values(private/personal) GROWTH(limited NON-intrusive PC Govt/religion---schools)!
Evolution...Atheism-dehumanism---TYRANNY(pc-religion/rhetoric)...
Then came the SPLIT SCHIZOPHRENIA/ZOMBIE/BRAVE-NWO1984 LIBERAL NEO-Soviet Darwin/ACLU America---the post-modern age
Everyone knows that all men are not equal. This is obvious, whether we were created or evolved. The Constitution provides that all are entitled to equal protection of the law, which is all we can do. This is the concept embodied in the Declaration.
The "creator" mentioned in the Declaration is "nature and nature's god," from Jefferson's expression in the first sentence. That is, quite likely, not the supernatural deity to which you refer. Historians usually consider it to be an expression of deism, not theism. The document as a whole is probably ambiguous. In any event, the Declaration isn't law, it isn't part of the Constitution, and it doesn't outlaw atheism, or any other belief about religion. The quote I gave you before, from Article 6 of the Constitution, specifically contradicts what you are now claiming.
You may say that the two documents are not connected, but without the assumptions of the D.of I. the Constitution would not have come about. Is it not evident that the Declaration is the real preamble to the Constitution.
Look at it any way you wish. They are separate documents, drafted by separate groups of men (with some overlap), but separated by nearly a dozen years. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. It does not include the Declaration.
That's why, while sharing FR's concern for media bias, I don't think the solution is to rail about the bias. Rather we need to educate ourselves, deprogramming ourselves from secular humanistic myths and brainwashing. This took me years of work personally, after a lifetime of indoctrination in government schools and media. I went from being a suicidal teen (albeit a National Merit Scholar, etc.) to a creationist and a Christian from the study of creationary and other biblical apologetics. They formed the foundation for my new, biblical worldview.
Our government today is corrupt because our society is corrupt. Men who deny God have no basis for recognizing something is "corrupt" (outside of meaningless personal opinion) unless they acknowledge a divine standard. That is what is missing in today's society. As Solzhenitsyn said, men have forgotten God. I thank God that He never forgot *me* and so richly blesses me and answers our prayers with such faithfulness as I could not have imagined!
So let us not curse the darkness, FReepers, but light candles with our own lives, and share the warmth of God's love and truth with others. Ephesians 2:8-9.
... Marathon!
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