U.S. was founded on principles that must not to be forgotten

A French professor familiar with U.S.-French relations recently offered this perspective on the French mistrust of President George W. Bush:

"What is a little disconcerting for the French is an American president who seems to be principled. The idea that politics should be based on principles is unimaginable because principles lead to ideology, and ideology is dangerous."

This pseudo-sophisticated attitude on principle's disconnect with politics — no doubt held by many world leaders — is shocking to most Americans.

The notion that the making of public policy should be unrelated to or devoid of principle is anathema to American political thought.

In his epic work, "Democracy in America," written in 1840, the young French traveler in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, depicted principle as the foundational rock upon which the early settlers of the colonies, and later, the founding fathers and mothers, built the new nation.

Speaking of what he considered America's highest principle — the freedom of the people — de Tocqueville stated, "In America, the principle of the sovereignty of the people is neither barren nor concealed, as it is with some other nations; it is recognized by the customs and proclaimed by the laws; it spreads freely, and arrives without impediment at its most remote consequences."

It was principle that guided those inspired and courageous Americans who birthed our nation — demonstrated on countless occasions, large and small, through their words and actions.

Like the young Massachusetts lawyer John Adams, who in 1770 — despite much public scorn — defended the British soldiers tried for killing five colonists in "the Boston Massacre."

He did so on the principled belief that "no man in a free country should be denied the right to counsel and a fair trial." (See "John Adams" by David McCullough.)

Like the Massachusetts rebels who in 1774 staged the "Boston Tea Party" on the democratic principle that no free people should be compelled to pay a tax without a voice in its imposition — and in reaction to which King George ordered British troops to close the port of Boston.

When the king dissolved Virginia's board of delegates after their outspoken opposition to his stranglehold on Massachusetts' port city, Thomas Jefferson responded with a pamphlet challenging the principle of the king's authority.

He wrote: "(A) free people (claim) their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate ... kings are the servants, not the proprietors of the people."

When, in 1775, the king's Virginia governor burned the town of Norfolk, the fiery freedom fighter, Patrick Henry, concluded his eloquent call for armed resistance with the historic words, "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."

The Declaration of Independence, drafted by 32-year-old Jefferson, was signed by the members of the Second Continental Congress on the evening of July 4, 1776. Its second sentence contains the immortal words:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness ... "

Five hard years later, the American War of Independence ended on a battlefield in Virginia, with the British surrender to General George Washington.

Historian Joseph J. Ellis writes, "At the dawn of a new century — indeed, a new millennium — the United States is now the oldest enduring republic in world history, with a set of political institutions and traditions that have stood the test of time." ("Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation.")

After two centuries of often painful struggles, Americans can feel pride and gratitude to live in a nation with a principled heart.

Those countries that find America's allegiance to principle disconcerting, or unsophisticated, or even dangerous, may well point to instances where she has fallen short, or occasionally, missed the mark altogether.

But it cannot be said that America shrank from the challenge, or abandoned those in need, or stood silently by when circumstances demanded commitment.

On the 40th anniversary of the Allies' Normandy invasion, President Ronald Reagan said, "We will always remember, we will always be proud, we will always be prepared, so we may always be free."

Mr. Stirling is vice president of Pacific Legal Foundation, a Sacramento, Calif.,-based public interest law firm that defends individual and economic freedoms in the courts. The foundation's Web site is at www.pacificlegal.org.

"Those who wish ill on other people for telling the truth
are allready in hell!

Ops4 God Bless America!"

I'm a little confused (or perhaps you are?) at your two posts, which seem to bear inherently opposite views.

The first states:

"And The principle of [Judeo]-Christian ethics
is what they used as the core of founding this country,
and anyone who denies it is a fraud!"

I agree with the Christian part, but then you go on to say:

"The Congress of the United States of America
has declared that the seven universal laws
commanded to Noah (the Noahide laws) are
"the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization.”
U.S. Congress, H.J. Resolution 104, Public Law 102-14, 1991
This proclamation was signed by President George Bush on March 20th, 1991.

The apple did not fall far from the tree, and thank God it did not!

Ops4 God BLess America!!!!!!!!!! "

Are you aware that the Noahide Laws are NOT Christian, and that, in fact the Noahide Laws negate the scriptures of the Old and New Testament? Are you aware of what the proponents of these laws state about Jesus Christ? about Christians? about how Christians should be punished for worshipping the one true God of the Bible? about their plans to SEIZE THE REINS OF GOVERNMENT [their words] of Jerusalem/nation-known-as-Israel and the United States and the rest of the world and govern by rabbinical [Talmudic] rule akin to Sharia? Are you aware that the Noahide Laws are the basis of Freemasonry? and that Freemasonry at its center is dedicated to the destruction of Christianity? [please do search freemasonry dedicated to destruction of Christianity].

Some pertinent quotes from the http://www.noahide.com site:

"Why Torah obligates all Jews in this campaign:

"...according to the known Jewish ruling that Christians are idol worshippers." (Likkutei Sichos 37:198)

A gentile...is liable for the death penalty...if he has invented a religious holiday for himself...The general principle is we do not allow them to make new religious rituals and to make 'mitzvahs' for themselves by their own devices. Rather they may either become a Ger Tzeddek and accept all the Mitvahs; or he (the Noahide) should stand fast in his Torah (the seven Noahide Laws) without adding or diminishing...and if he does make some new 'mitzvah,' we lash him, punish him, and inform him that he is obligated with the death penalty for this..." (Rambam Mishne Torah—Hilchos Melachim 10:9)..." http://www.noahide.com/xmas.htm

DEATH PENALTY FOR CHRISTIANS:
"16) "That the court is to administer the death penalty by the sword [i.e., decapitation]." (Positive 226)"
http://www.noahide.com/lawslist.htm

WHO WAS JESUS?
The Bible gave a warning about a dangerous, false prophet who would arise to test our faith in G-d. In Deuteronomy 13, G-d describes this false prophet as a member of the Jewish people (v. 2, 7) who would tell true prophecies and would have the power of miracles. G-d Himself would give this false prophet the power to perform miracles and reveal prophecy, but the false prophet would try to seduce the people away from G-d's Law and towards strange gods unknown to Judaism. The purpose would be to test whether we are truly committed to living under the Law, or whether we will be dazzled and fall for the temptation to join a false path to salvation (v. 3-6, 7-8, 11). In this Biblical passage, G-d repeatedly commands the Jews to kill this false prophet, lest the evil spread and destroy many souls.....

....In the book of the prophet Daniel, this false prophet is described as a king (the eleventh horn on a terrible beast) who would wage war against the Jews (the "holy ones"; see Deut. 14:2 on this term) and would change the Law — including the calendar and the holidays (Daniel 7:8, 20-25). Elsewhere, this false prophet is described as a king who would disregard the G-d of his fathers, exalting himself as a god and giving honor to this new god-head (Daniel 11:36-39).

The man known today as "Jesus" fulfilled all these prophecies. He became a "king" (over the Christian church) who changed the original Law, doing away with the Hebrew calendar and the Biblical holidays (Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkos — the Festival of Tabernacles, Passover, etc.). He disregarded the one, infinite G-d of the Hebrew Bible in favor of a new "trinity" that included himself. And he repeatedly broke the Law by committing terrible sins, while openly challenging the G-d-given authority of the rabbis of the Sanhedrin..........

....The Talmud (Babylonian edition) records other sins of "Jesus the Nazarene":

1) He and his disciples practiced sorcery and black magic, led Jews astray into idolatry, and were sponsored by foreign, gentile powers for the purpose of subverting Jewish worship (Sanhedrin 43a).

2) He was sexually immoral, worshipped statues of stone (a brick is mentioned), was cut off from the Jewish people for his wickedness, and refused to repent (Sanhedrin 107b; Sotah 47a).

3) He learned witchcraft in Egypt and, to perform miracles, used procedures that involved cutting his flesh — which is also explicitly banned in the Bible (Shabbos 104b).

The false, rebellious message of Jesus has been thoroughly rejected by the vast majority of the Jewish people, as G-d commanded. Unfortunately, however, this same message has brought a terrible darkness upon the world; today, over 1.5 billion gentiles believe in Jesus. These lost souls mistakenly think they have found salvation in Jesus; tragically, they are in for a rude awakening. Truth and eternal life are found directly from G-d, through performing His Law. Any "mediator" only separates man from G-d:..............." http://www.noahide.com/yeshu.htm

Why Not Christianity? http://www.noahide.com/xtianity.htm

"THE FINAL WAR FOR JERUSALEM

...to bring Moshiach immediately.

Judaism has always been a conquering religion, not for the purpose of converting gentiles to become Jews, but rather with the mission of returning the world to the universal covenant between G-d and Noah. For halachic reasons too numerous and detailed to list here, gentiles today who follow Christianity, Islam, or other religions are not, for the most part, "righteous gentiles" who inherit the World to Come. That status belongs only to those gentiles who carefully observe the Seven Laws of Noah, including following the halachic authority of the oral Torah and the rabbis.

(For those who find the concept confusing, we hasten to point out that this is not part of a conversion to Judaism, nor even a step in the process. The Children of Noah have their own, independent role to play in assisting the Jewish people and refining the world. Those individuals who wish to convert may do so, but there is no such requirement. In the Messianic era, these righteous gentiles will worship in the Jerusalem Temple and celebrate certain Torah holidays, but will maintain a separate court system and not intermarry with Jews. Today, such Noachides also assist in bringing non-observant Jews back to Torah, among other functions.)

During the time of the first Temple, the dream of eventually refining and transforming the gentiles was reflected in the presence of ten menorahs in the Temple sanctuary--for a total of seventy lights--representing the elevation of the seventy gentile nations. But when the Temple was destroyed, the Jews had to influence the gentiles in a more quiet, gradual manner. Although causing the gentiles to observe the Seven Noachide Laws is itself one of the 613 mitzvos of the Torah, the exile at times sank to such depths of harshness and oppression that Jews simply could not fulfill this mitzvah for fear of death. In such times, Judaism was forced to adapt itself to mere survival; conquest was simply out of the question.

That situation has completely reversed itself today. The very fact that Amalek can stir up such chaos in the world is proof that gentile society no longer presents true opposition to Jewish teachings. One now sees anti-Semitism only where Amalek is provoking trouble, which is precisely where gentiles are the most desperate for guidance. As Christianity spirals downward into strife and theological confusion, it becomes a vacuum unable to defend itself against either the lies of Amalek or the truth of Torah. Amalek can exploit the worldwide collapse of Christianity only by default--that is, only when the Jewish people do not seize the unprecedented opportunity.

And as the Lubavitcher Rebbe has explained, by transforming the gentiles we can quickly create a vast army of supporters who will help us reveal Moshiach and bring all Jews back to the Torah. Specifically, the Rebbe has emphasized that the "peace process" in Israel will be defeated only through our influence on the gentiles--especially through the campaign to teach the Noachide Laws (see Sichos in English, vol. 16, [19 Kislev 5743]).

Our most pressing task, to put it simply, is to launch an international Noachide revolution without delay. The process has already begun, with dozens of tiny Noachide communities having appeared throughout the United States, generally composed of former Christians who have abandoned that religion. The task of organizing the revolution can be divided into two broad stages:

I) We must first create a new Noachide society as an international network of communities and organizations functioning inside, but separately from, the surrounding society (based on halachic requirements and directives, Noachide institutions function quite differently from their Christian and secular counterparts).

This starts with an aggressive outreach program, by Jews and Noachides alike, to teach gentiles about their responsibilities according to Torah.

Simultaneously, we must organize functioning programs and institutions that are prepared to absorb these vast numbers of ex-Christians and immediately involve them in efforts to bring Moshiach. The Noachide communities require schools for their children, modeled after the Jewish yeshiva programs; Torah study groups geared for their specific needs; coordinated celebrations of appropriate Torah holidays; family services for marriage, support for the elderly, and burial; courts of justice, led by rabbinically trained righteous judges, which will function similarly to Jewish batei dinim; and tzedaka programs to assist the needy, to build new Noachide schools, and to support Jewish settlements in Israel and synagogues throughout the diaspora.

2) In the second stage, the growing Noachide movement will seize political power--using only peaceful, lawful means--in the capitals of the Western nations. This, of course, will not take place until the Noachide society has grown to some threshold size. We do not know how large this needs to be nor which nations will join the revolution first, although the United States, as a fairly religious, conservative nation, certainly tops the list of prospects.

Upon seizing the reins of government, the new Noachide leaders will move quickly to implement a full agenda of reform. All economic and technological aid to the Communist Bloc, including the PLO, will be terminated immediately. Full support will be given to Israeli forces to reinvade PLO-controlled areas, with military assistance offered where necessary. Jewish courts (the batei dini of the rabbis) will be granted full legal sovereignty over Jewish citizens within each country, who will no longer be subject to the authority of gentile courts. The pre-existing Noachide judges and courts will replace the existing court system of each country, and the legal code will be drastically rewritten to conform to halacha; in the United States, the emphasis will be on restoring the authority of the Constitution and abolishing all unconstitutional government programs and agencies. The national debt will be foreclosed, probably by paying off creditors with government land holdings, thus averting economic disaster. And law and order will be fully restored through the establishment of internal security measures, again in accordance with Torah law.

Almost as soon as aid to the Communist Bloc stops, the international Communist revolution will plunge headlong into crisis. The captive peoples, seeing their liberation at hand, will genuinely rise up to throw their brutal dictators out of power, and the armies of Gog and Magog--ranging from the Soviet Communists to the PLO--will self-destruct before the eyes of the entire world.

Naturally, Amalek's agents will scream hysterically to intimidate Jews from carrying out the above campaign, hoping to delay this victory. They have no power, however, to prevent our successful action; they can only try to create doubts and hesitation.

As the world plunges headlong toward the imminent revelation of Moshiach while the last walls of the exile disintegrate, the number of confused gentiles ready to change is rising exponentially. If the Jewish people immediately begin preparing adequate structures for the Noachide movement, this tide will be channeled directly into a glorious revelation of Truth. But if we allow ourselves to be caught unprepared, this same overwhelming force for social change can, G-d forbid, be diverted to empower Amalek's final assault on holiness. It is not a matter of whether gentile society will explode in the face of the growing crisis; this event is an inevitable, and fast-approaching, reality. We do not want to miss this incredible opportunity to provide light in the final moments of darkness.

The world has reached its ultimate point of decision, and the power to succeed belongs entirely to the Jewish people. We can wait until Moshiach comes on his own, following a world war, or we can bring him through our own actions, as the Lubavitcher Rebbe has stated is our mission. The choice is ours.

There is not a minute to waste. Jews everywhere, unite!

Copyright © 1998 by the Committee for Israeli Victory"
http://www.noahide.com/finalwar.htm

So far, I fail to see where any of the above has to do with a FReeRepublic or the Christian principles the people who founded this country believed. Am I missing something?

Quote:

"The Noachide Faith in Masonic Sources
The Old Charges - A Return to our Roots

The Chevalier Ramsay used to declare: “Freemasonry is indeed the resurrection of the Noachide religion, that of the Patriarch Noah, that religion prior to any dogma, which allows us to go beyond the differences and oppositions of the various faiths”. [as quoted on the site of the Grand Lodge of France]....." http://tracingboard.com/noachites.htm

This has been posted on FR before. No outcry from our Jewish brethren. No outcry from the ADL. No outcry from the media. No outcry from the "Christian" televangelists.

By the way, I do NOT for one minute believe these people are true Jews. ( http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Rev/2/9.html / http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Rev/12/13.html ) I believe they hate the true Jews as much as Christians, and once again are using cunning to create an anti-Semitic backlash, in addition to persecution of Christians.

OPS4,

The last chapter of the Old Testament finds God saying, REMEMBER YE, THE LAW OF MOSES MY SERVANT, (nothing about Moses) which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. (Mal. 4:4). Furthermore, the Noahide 'Laws' were not given to 'the children of Israel' or to 'the Jews'; they weren't even created yet (See Luke 3, Mary's genealogy). The covenant with Moses was simply that God promised not to destroy the whole world with a flood again. The LAW was that given to Moses in Exodus 20. In Exodus 32:11 we see God telling Moses to stand back while he destroys all of the Israelites, and transfers the promise to Moses. Only Moses' pleading saved the Israelites from destruction that day. The Israelites' relationship with God was rocky at best from that point forward. No one can read Joshua 23:11-16, Jeremiah 11:10, Ezekiel 8 and Ezekiel 16 (the third rail for most Christian preachers), and Matthew 21 and Matthew 23, and believe that God intended for Christians to take their religious instructions from the Jews. In fact in Hebrews 8, we are told that the OLD covenant is getting ready to pass away, to be replaced by the NEW. Since the Jews have not accepted the NEW, they have no authority other than that which an increasingly anti-Christian government seems more than willing to give them. The only reason theses people insist on going back to Moses, is because they rejected the word of God, and have to find some straw to control the rest of the world with. They seek to destroy any who cross them. In their own words, they are a conquering people, and they've been at this for 33 centuries. (but shhh, let's not call it a 'conspiracy'!)

Jer 11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Jer/11/10.html

Hbr 8:13In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away. http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Hbr/8/13.html

I guess what people are having a hard time grasping is that Jacob/Israel passed his name 'Israel' to 'Ephraim' another name for the ten Northern Tribes (the 'Jews' were the two southern tribes). Jesus was the fulfillment of all the prophesies made to 'Israel'. Jesus came for the 'Lost Sheep' who had been scattered. The Israel of God (Gal. 6:16) today, is all those who have accepted Jesus Christ, Jew or Gentile, Black or White, Arab, Chinese, or whatever.

See the TWO JERUSALEMS in Galatians 4:21-31.

Jesus said "My yoke is easy and my burden is light". His two main commandments were to love God and love our neighbor, something he castigated the Israelites for NOT doing, which is why he cut them off. See the parable of the fig tree that did not bear fruit, Matthew 21:18-22. Jesus cut off the old and replaced it with the new. That's 'Replacement Theology', right from the Master's mouth.

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