Posted on 03/27/2005 8:26:34 PM PST by quidnunc
Easter is a celebration of the triumph of life over death and of right over wrong. So it is peculiarly poignant that issues of life and death should be dominating the news this Easter, most dramatically so in the United States.
Last week, before the eyes of the whole world, the nation that has pledged to export its values to the rest of the globe set about starving and dehydrating one of its citizens to death. That it did so against the wishes of the president, Congress and the people only added to the horror of the situation. If Terri Schiavo is still alive by the time you read this and there has been no new intervention, it will be her ninth day deprived even of water.
The Schiavo case has been hugely misrepresented in the media, not least by the BBC, which has reported it under a ‘Right to Die’ caption. It is not about the right to die: it is about the right to kill. The weasel term ‘persistent vegetative state’ has been attached to Mrs Schiavo, although her husband has refused to have her tested to establish her clinical status. Terri Schiavo is not a vegetable; she is not on a life-support machine; she does not have any tubes attached to her body. She has received visitors, out of bed and fully dressed. Her feeding tube was not "removed", since it had never been a permanent attachment: doctors, constrained by court order, stopped connecting it to her at mealtimes.
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USA is in need of a moral revolution, for we have really sunk low when we have a desire to kill innocent disabled people. Our courts have even sunk so low as to declare that they have no value. But we can see now, that there are still many compassionate good people in the world, and this should give us hope. Terri has pointed out the evil people for us all, and we do not even have to ask who they are.
USA is in need of a political revolution as well, at least to include the judicial branch.
We need to stop particularizing this on Terry Schiavo and start making it a general argument about right-to-life vs duty-to-die.
And where would you like to start? Anyone who has taken a good, hard, long look has seen that there is corruption are every single level of our culture, not just in government.
As they said in the 60's "If you're not part of the solution, you must be part of the problem"
At the foundation:
Restore bible study to all schools, as it was when this country was founded.
We need this shouted from the rooftops all over the Western World!
We will. But all great struggles throughout history have had a catalyst. I can't help but think Terri is on her way to filling that role.
Which version? I'm not joking here, the next great debate after you get the bible back into school is which version of the bible to use.
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scots have some of the details goofed up, which is a shame
KJV for me. Romans 8 is the test.
it sez "time for another tea party" on my scoot helmet, how about yours?
why not just do the original? we need the classic languages back too! then you have no arguments about silly versions ;-)
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams
Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered. - Patrick Henry
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. - Patrick Henry
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - Thomas Jefferson
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. - Frederic Bastiat
Those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. - Col. Jeff Cooper
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. - John F. Kennedy
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. - Edward R. Murrow
What those guys said.
Easy question...
The King James version is the only one that is interlaced with complex numeric relationships that could only have come from the omnipotent, omniscient God. Michael Hoggard has done considerable research on this fact.
Yes, I know, a whole bunch of freepers are going to start screaming that it doesn't matter, but if you want to be sure that it is God's word, the KJV has the numeric proof.
Let's roll.
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