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To: Lorianne
I saw a news clip today where he was sitting in court reading the quran. I couldn't help but wonder what would happen if a defendant sat in court reading a Bible?
6 posted on 03/25/2006 10:27:27 PM PST by lunarbicep (Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain)
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To: lunarbicep
I couldn't help but wonder what would happen if a defendant sat in court reading a Bible?

Probably nothing. I've been to courtrooms before that provided Bibles to people who wanted them.

20 posted on 03/25/2006 10:36:10 PM PST by krb (ad hominem arguments are for stupid people)
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To: lunarbicep; Alia; Enchante; Sundog; Lorianne

1. In 1892 the Supreme Court decided that, “Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of The Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian... this is a Christian nation”.

2. President Abraham Lincoln said, “We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven... but we have forgotten God. It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”

3. "Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.” President Thomas Jefferson.

4. John Quincy Adams believed that, “The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible”.

5. Lincoln also said, “All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated through this Book; but for the Book we could not know right from wrong... “

6. President Warren Wilson believed in the Bible too. He said, “The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.”

7. Apparently Andrew Jackson relied God’s word as well. “Go to the Scriptures”, he said, “the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.”

8. Calvin Coolidge wrote, “The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on th e teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.“

Remember, ...we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ, (Eph4:14) Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth, each one of you, with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. (Ephesians 4: 25)


74 posted on 03/26/2006 9:31:55 AM PST by Jo Nuvark ((Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3))
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