Sep C&S History Lessons #16 Message #9558 of 9562
1943
GENEALOGY OF SUNDAY LAWS
The following statements, in form of quotations, present in succinct
form the facts regarding the origin and history of Sunday laws:
1. PROTESTANTISM IN AMERICA: "During nearly all our American history
the churches have influenced the States to make and improve Sabbath
laws."-Rev. W. F. Crafts, in Christian Statesman, July 3, 1890, p. 5.
2. YOUNGER STATES OF AMERICA: In Sunday legislation we have followed
the example of the older States.
3. OLDER STATES: In Sunday legislation and judicial decisions we have
followed the example of the oldest States.
4. OLDEST STATES: In the matter of Sunday legislation we have
followed the example of the original colonies.
5. ORIGINAL COLONIES: In the matter of Sunday legislation we followed
the precedents and example of old England, which had an established
religion and a church and state system.
6. OLD ENGLAND: Sunday laws and religious legislation arc the relics
of the Catholic Church, incorporated among us when that church was the
established church of Christendom, retained when Henry VIII, about
1534 A. D., renounced allegiance to the pope and intensified by a
state Protestantism under the Puritan "Christian Sabbath" theory.
7. CATHOLIC CHURCH: Sunday laws and religious legislation were
incorporated in our system by the craft, flattery, and policy of
Constantine and the ambitious bishops of his time, together with the
decrees of popes and councils of later date, by which we transmuted the
`venerable day of the sun' the `wild solar holiday of all pagan
times,' into the Christian Sabbath, in honor of the resurrection.
8. PAGANISM: "With us, Sunday observance originated in astrology and
sun worship; in turning from the Creator to His works of creation, and
worshiping the heavenly bodies; in dedicating each day to a planetary
deity, making this day, the first in the Biblical week, sacred
to the greatest, brightest, and most luminous visible object in the
heavens, the sun. (See Rom. 1:21-25; Eze. 8:15, 16.)(1)
9. SUNDAY: "So called because this day was anciently dedicated to the
sun, or to its worship."-Webster (ed 1925)
10. SUN WORSHIP: "The oldest of all forms of idolatry." (See Job 3 1:
26-28.)
(1) THE IMPOSSIBLE.-by other day than the first might have Been God's
rest day. Instead of creating the heavcns and earth in six days and
resting on the seventh, He might have created them in five, four.
three, or two days, or even in one day, and rested the next: but He
could not have created them on the first day and rested on that same
day. This would have been impossible. Thus, in changing God's rest
day, men have chosen the impossible. This is the day the observance of
which men, for sixteen hundred years, have been seeking to enforce
upon their fellow men by law, and concerning which there is now in
progress a worldwide movement for its compulsory observance. This, in
subtle and refined form, is but the return to paganism and its methods
under a Christian guise.
(SOURCE OF INFORMATION: American State Papers on Freedom in Religion.
3rd Revised Edition. Published in 1943 for The Religious Liberty
Association, Washington, D.C. by the Review and Herald. First Edition
Compiled by William Addison Blakely, of the Chicago Bar. (1890) under
the Title American State Papers Bearing on Sunday Legislation. pp
577-578)
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The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
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