GOD'S REAL ESTATE

New York Post ^ | 4/13/03 | RALPH PETERS

[kattracks]

ONE of the greatest blessings enjoyed by the United States is that God hasn't claimed any local real estate. The insistence in so much of the world that one divinity or another cherishes a specific handful of dust remains one of humankind's great curses.

[PGalt]

Good article. Thanks for the post.

Under the conceptual umbrella of FREEDOM...all concepts are welcome.

FREEDOM is not divisive.

[ventana]

Does this guy not get the irony of the situations depicted: that all the aggressors from Israel to India and Indonesia are Muslim? I got news for him too, maybe he doesn't think God is in the Basilica, but Catholics believe the Real Presence is there. Is he purposely being insulting? Or is he just an ignoramus... I am going with ignoramus. V's wife.

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[ventana]

Well, I believe Muslims in this country consider there Mosques to be beyond the sovereign laws of our nation. The soil is no longer US soil, it is Muslim soil. It's a conquering religion, no getting around that. V's wife.

[peeve23]

since we've got a religious discussion going on the news forum with absolutely no basis for it being here and not where it should be, let me say that this religious stuff gets no real support and only ends up dividing the conservative/republican movements.

someone has said, "keep it in the churches where it belongs."

[Lyford]

Bump for later...

[ventana]

Agreed. V's wife.

[homeagain balkansvet]

This article is horsehockey. Of course we have sacred soil. It's any state territory whatsoever in the United States. Which is something our neoconfederate secessionists forget at their peril.

"If Canada ever joins the United States, they must remember, when the subject of secession comes up, we don't do Meech Lake. We do Antietam." - WashPost, July 4, 1990, on Canadian separatism

[VOYAGER]

At the risk of this not being understood by those who would exclude all others, from being accepted by God, who do not believe that God can be imprisoned in an ever so ornate "box" and doled out by a select few automatons who are in dogmatic lockstep with their fleshy rule makers, "God does not dwell in buildings made with (human) hands"!

Now go flame away!

[Red Boots]

Oh, but there are sacred grounds in the USA. They're our once public lands,and they've been claimed by the Gaia Religion people in the environmental movement, using our tax dollars. People are being denied access to these lands because their very presence desecrates them. Just look at how many acres of public land have been closed to human use in the last 2-3 decades. It's staggering.Is it a war? Just ask the loggers, farmers and ranchers who've been denied their livelihoods. They sure think so.

[gcruse]

Viewed honestly, the competition between faiths and
creeds over sacred ground remains a cancer of the human condition.

Well said.