October 23, 2019
OK - some of you should think this through before losing your collective minds...
Western Civilization is THE most successful organizing force, bringing
the most blessing and the fewest curses. Western Civilization is built
upon moral principles found in Judeo-Christian
Learning the source document of those precepts is not a bad idea.
Remember kids, Christians are real assholes, but to murder on an industrial scale you need to ut atheists in charge of government.
A word from Timothy Birdnow:
The Bible was taught in schools until the Progressives removed it out of a horrible misinterpretation of the First Amendment, which says "Congress shall make no law concerning the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". That has nothing to do with teaching the basics of the Judeo Christian faith, or discussing the ethics thereof, or discussing the history of religion. The "separation of Church and State" is a phrase that came from a letter by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Church, where Jefferson spoke of "a wall of separation" between Church and State, and that for the protection of the Church, not the empowerment of the State. Jeffereson was encouraging the good folks at Danbury to embrace the Constitution.
It was a protection FOR religion, not a club with which to beat religion.
Click the moore button to read the whole letter from Thomas Jefferson.
https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html
To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.
Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.
Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.
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BUT... (and there's always a "but" to things like this)... who will the teachers be? They must be teachers who believe in and are in favor of The Bible, and know it intimately. As we know to our sorrow, there are way too many people out there who are the exact opposite, and I do not want them within a country mile of any school teaching about The Bible. I'd prefer that these people have degrees that are in some flavor of Divinity degrees, like our Fay -- not just somebody who has volunteered to teach in his/her church's Sunday School.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at October 23, 2019 10:09 PM (S3Uvu)
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at October 24, 2019 06:48 AM (e9JAO)
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at October 25, 2019 01:46 PM (S3Uvu)
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