House Resolution 888: A push toward American Christian Theocracy? Topic
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House Resolution 888: A push toward American Christian Theocracy?
January 5, 2008 — ronbrown
It is being argued on Daily Kos that Christian Conservatives are
engaging in a deceitful effort of historical revisionism to give
America a big nudge toward becoming an officially Christian nation. It
is argued on Daily Kos that this effort is an attempt to exploit the
fear of Democrat politicians to appear anti-Christian in order to make
religious right historical revisionism (i.e., that the founding
fathers intended for America to be an explicitly Christian nation,
rather than a secular one) appear more respectable by having it
enshrined in Congress. It's an effort to make lies true.
Introduced by Congressman Randy Forbes December 18 in the US House
Of Representatives, H. Res 888 claims to be about ""Affirming the rich
spiritual and religious history of our Nation's founding and
subsequent history and expressing support for designation of the first
week in May as `American Religious History Week' for the appreciation
of and education on America's history of religious faith."
Actually, the resolution is packed with lies - American history
lies to be specific.
It could easily be argued that House Resolution 888 is framed so as to
make it very difficult to oppose it without appearing anti-Christian.
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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 · Historical Reality SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
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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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