tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post4671759850606914871..comments2023-12-13T16:57:33.142-06:00Comments on Blogodidact: Bogus!Van Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-67743865569100922722008-03-18T20:52:00.000-05:002008-03-18T20:52:00.000-05:00Yes, or From the 1776 preamble to:" CONSTITUTION ...Yes, or From the 1776 preamble to:<BR/>" CONSTITUTION <BR/> OF THE <BR/>STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA<BR/> PREAMBLE <BR/><BR/>WE, the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance, do ordain and establish this Constitution."<BR/><BR/>The attempts to assert that America was not founded by men largely conscious of, and sympathetic to Christianity, is pure posturing ignorance.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, the idea that the Founders were seeking to establish a Christian and even vaguely Theological <B>Gov't</B>, is equally so.<BR/><BR/>The Founders were men of wide and deep education and understanding, men who understood the importance of morality and spiritual self knowledge. Not even Ethan Allen, who was fervently atheistic, belittled the importance of morality. These were whole men, not yet the fractured creatures of the coming age of selves fractured on the non-sense of Hume, Rousseau and Kant.<BR/><BR/>They deliberately decided to exclude some of the religious tests which were in some current constitutions, not as an attempt to exclude religion from the public mind, but to remove the taint of Governmental force from the important decisions and beliefs of its citizens.<BR/><BR/>If someone’s intellectual positions are too weak to refrain from seizing upon isolated points in order to make blanket assertions in support of their own position, while pointedly avoiding or denying the rest of the facts... well... like Kant to found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to preserve faith, what they do possess is neither knowledge nor faith.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-17451460858399230612008-03-18T19:33:00.000-05:002008-03-18T19:33:00.000-05:00Quibbles - Slight adjustments to historical (mis)p...Quibbles - Slight adjustments to historical (mis)perceptions:<BR/><BR/>"The Congress passed the Act of April 22, 1864. This legislation changed the composition of the one-cent coin and authorized the minting of the two-cent coin. The Mint Director was directed to develop the designs for these coins for final approval of the Secretary. IN GOD WE TRUST first appeared on the 1864 two-cent coin."<BR/><BR/>http://www.treas.gov/education/fact-sheets/currency/in-god-we-trust.html<BR/><BR/>A bill recently introduced into the House of Representatives:<BR/><BR/>http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=hr110-888<BR/><BR/>An excerpt:<BR/><BR/>"...Whereas the first act of America's first Congress in 1774 was to ask a minister to open with prayer and to lead Congress in the reading of 4 chapters of the Bible;<BR/><BR/>Whereas Congress regularly attended church and Divine service together en masse;<BR/><BR/>Whereas throughout the American Founding, Congress frequently appropriated money for missionaries and for religious instruction, a practice that Congress repeated for decades after the passage of the Constitution and the First Amendment;<BR/><BR/>Whereas in 1776, Congress approved the Declaration of Independence with its 4 direct religious acknowledgments referring to God as the Creator (`All people are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'), the Lawgiver (`the laws of nature and nature's God'), the Judge (`appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world'), and the Protector (`with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence');<BR/><BR/>Whereas upon approving the Declaration of Independence, John Adams declared that the Fourth of July `ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty';<BR/><BR/>Whereas 4 days after approving the Declaration, the Liberty Bell was rung;<BR/><BR/>Whereas the Liberty Bell was named for the Biblical inscription from Leviticus 25:10 emblazoned around it: `Proclaim liberty throughout the land, to all the inhabitants thereof';<BR/><BR/>Whereas in 1777, Congress, facing a National shortage of `Bibles for our schools, and families, and for the public worship of God in our churches,' announced that they `desired to have a Bible printed under their care & by their encouragement' and therefore ordered 20,000 copies of the Bible to be imported `into the different ports of the States of the Union'..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-1591163507008933802008-02-25T19:14:00.000-06:002008-02-25T19:14:00.000-06:00Van, I don't have an email for you.I just learned ...Van, I don't have an email for you.<BR/><BR/>I just learned that Larry Norman has passed on to the big Rock n' Roll band in the sky...<BR/><BR/>:(<BR/><BR/>He's still paving the way for the rest of us.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-48146872049093642382008-02-25T15:52:00.000-06:002008-02-25T15:52:00.000-06:00Fun Read, thanks. Love it.Fun Read, thanks. Love it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-64772390130959068462008-02-25T07:19:00.000-06:002008-02-25T07:19:00.000-06:00Allotetraploid - Here's what bogus looks like!Allotetraploid - <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://robinstarfish.blogspot.com/2008/02/thats-bogus-dude.html" REL="nofollow">Here's</A> what <I>bogus</I> looks like!QPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15827536245376441948noreply@blogger.com