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To: Gunslingr3

Denying that the artwork embedded within the Supreme Court building doesn't have Christian backgrounds is straight out and out lying.

Each session of Congress started with a prayer. They aren't trying to establish a religion, they are exercising their right to ask for Christs guidance in their daily work.


7 posted on 11/13/2006 11:25:48 PM PST by B4Ranch (Illegal immigration Control and US Border Security - The jobs George W. Bush refuses to do.)
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To: B4Ranch
Denying that the artwork embedded within the Supreme Court building doesn't have Christian backgrounds is straight out and out lying.

Moses was a Jew, not a Christian.

The Supreme Court building was created in the early 30's, and the artwork indeed contains the 10 commandments and Moses. It is a tribute to historical law givers, not a nod to religious roots. It'd probably chap your ass to know they included Mohammed.

"Courtroom friezes - the South Wall Frieze includes figures of lawgivers from the B.C.E. times, and includes Menes, Hammurabi, Moses, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, and Draco.

The North Wall Frieze shows lawgivers from the Anno Domini era and includes representations of Justinian, Muhammad, Charlemange, King John, Louis IX, Hugo Grotius, Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall, and Napoleon."

The histrionics from WND are really silly...

10 posted on 11/13/2006 11:33:37 PM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: B4Ranch
You might want to share this quotation with your friend:

"Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not only of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all governments and in all the combinations of human society."*

Nancee

*John Adams (August 28, 1811)

74 posted on 11/14/2006 6:07:03 PM PST by Nancee ((Nancee Lynn Cheney))
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