Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Thursday, December 02, 2004
Old Slate Post-Election Rant
-Silentprophet
read the replys on the Slate discussion and a few of the other absurd discussions
http://fray.slate.msn.com/?id=3936&m=12859292
Thursday, November 04, 2004
The Foundation
"The only assurance of our Nation's safety is to lay our foundation in Morality and Religion" -Abraham Lincoln
As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view ... it is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments
As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.
Samuel Adams
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
-Samuel Adams
"W" America's President
With many Europeans confused about why America elected President Bush when all the polls and outspoken people in L.A., New York, and Boston were saying Kerry was sure to win, the BBC is asking Americans to state why they supported the President. Here is a good base of what the majority of American's are saying.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/3981669.stm
Election 04: County by County
The Biggest Factor
"You can make a good case that the biggest divide in this country is between religionists and secularists (and I hope those are fair terms). As long as the religionists view certain voting issues as moral issues (eg, abortion and gay marriage), they'll have a massive advantage in getting out the vote. They voted down every gay marriage referendum in this election, and voted for Bush while they were at it."
Sean Meade
This quote is 100% true. The issue however, is far greater that anyone may understand. Or maybe it is that the corporations do understand. The corporate sales department would have to completely destroy religious foundation of history to get around these religious moral issues. Would an email connected group of sales gurus actually derive a plan to weaken the moral foundation of the country just to make money? It may seem a little farfetched at first, but let’s combine that connected ability to influence media coverage by sponsorship and donations along with a belief that “Separation of Church and State” extends to all publicly owned or viewable areas i.e. parks, sidewalks, billboards, just basically anything not inside your house out of public view. Is this an organized group of people doing these things on purpose? Probably not, this a "take a step back from the situation" view of things.
The main idea is that small tweaks here and there add up to a very big change in the social fabric of our country. We may not live in a Rockwell painting, but just because very few people are attaining that perfect picturesque life these days doesn’t mean we should lower the bar just to raise the success quota and feel good about ourselves.
-Silent
Monday, November 01, 2004
Separation of Church and State
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”They, the ultra-secularists, are using their dry interpretation of founding document of our nation to push the belief that all public space and activities in the public eye should be secular and free from religion, thus because public space and public forums are protected and mandated by the government they are subject to enforcement of their version of the 1st Amendment. The answer to this type of thinking is very straight forward and must be brought to the forefront of our minds to stop the purging of faith from our nation. The Separation of Church and State is not Separation of God and State, Freedom of Religion is not, nor was ever meant to be reflected as Freedom from Religion as a nation free of religion. The framers of the Constitution were faith based people who understood the need for both religion and religious tolerance, to write and sign a document that stripped their country of religion would have been blasphemy to them and would have negated their core definition and understanding of life and death. From religion come the pillars of morality that guide and hold up the ethics system of our country. America is a common idea that is held together by our commonality in historically faith based ideology and morals taken from Christianity. To erase public religion and replace it with personal religion is to erase our commonality and erode the moral underpinning of our nation to the point where we no longer recognize each other as a people.