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hanksgiving - A Time To Understand Religion In America |
Thanksgiving - A Time To Understand Religion In America
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
http://www.americandaily.com/article/16506
[excerpt]
Thanksgiving - A Time To Understand Religion In America
By J.J. Jackson (11/23/06)
It is fashionable these days to forget the truth and even downright ignore
it when it cannot be forgotten. And what about when the truth cannot be
ignored? Well, in that case we are far too accepting of any attempt to
distort it.
These days in America we have a subculture of poorly educated Americans who
erroneously believe that somehow, somewhere in the Constitution there
exists a “separation of Church and State” which precludes government from
recognizing Almighty God and the faith of those that founded this nation.
Our first amendment provides only two simple and powerful restrictions on
the government with regards to how it handles the religious beliefs of the
people. First, it prevents the Congress from making laws “respecting an
establishment of religion”. Second it prevents the Congress from making
laws that prohibit the “the free exercise” of religion by all citizens even
if they are elected officials. That’s it and nothing more.
James Madison, once remarked during the discussion of the amendment that if
the amendment were clarified by adding the word “national” before religion
such confusion over what was meant would be easily corrected. For you see,
that is what the founding fathers really and truly meant.
What they feared was what they and their ancestors had escaped from; a
national church headed by the government. In England you either belonged to
the Church of England or you life was made miserable at the very best.
The founding fathers completely disagreed with those today who would strip
the vestiges of God from the public lives of the people. One need only look
at the very Constitution itself where those that affixed their names
proudly proclaimed that their act was “done in year of our Lord”. Hardly
something that a group of people who believed God should be stricken from
American life would do.
[end excerpt]
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You are invited to check out the following:
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]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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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
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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| Title: Re: hanksgiving - A Time To Understand Religion In America |
24 Nov 2006 05:32:51 PM |
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<buckeye-elo@nospam.net> wrote in message
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Thanksgiving - A Time To Understand Religion In America
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
http://www.americandaily.com/article/16506
[excerpt]
Thanksgiving - A Time To Understand Religion In America
By J.J. Jackson (11/23/06)
Yes there is a parallel between Christians ( theist in general) and
thanksgiving, there both about turkeys and neither one has the sense to come
out of a rain storm, figuratively speaking.
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