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Tom DeLay: God 'wrote the Constitution'
San Antonio Express-News ^
| February 21, 2014
| Kolten Parker
Posted on 02/22/2014 2:11:50 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: All
I think we got off the track when we allowed our government to become a secular government. When we stopped realizing that God created this nation, that he wrote the Constitution, that it's based on biblical principles.
To: EveningStar
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. -- Alexander Hamilton
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posted on
02/22/2014 2:16:05 PM PST
by
jdege
To: All
BTW, that quote is from Tom DeLay.
To: EveningStar
Yah .... so ?
Not too many Christians would disagree with that basic premise
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posted on
02/22/2014 2:18:27 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: jdege
Does Hamilton think that God wrote the Constitution?
To: knarf
Not too many Christians would disagree with that basic premise
As far as I know, the only published material with God as the Primary Author is the Holy Scripture, which hasn't been added to since the death of the last Apostle.
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posted on
02/22/2014 2:20:51 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
To: knarf
yah so all those Christians are still sitting on their hands
To: knarf
Do you think Madison and the others were really channeling God when they wrote the Constitution?
To: EveningStar
Ring, Ring.
"Hello?"
"Hello. Yes. This is the Long Distance Operator. The 80s called. The want their Texas 22nd congressional district Representative back."
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posted on
02/22/2014 2:25:41 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
To: EveningStar
God DID write the Constitution. He had a pen in one hand and a BAR in the other.
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posted on
02/22/2014 2:30:17 PM PST
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Dr. Sivana
As far as I know, the only published material with God as the Primary Author is the Holy Scripture, which hasn't been added to since the death of the last Apostle. You're making a straw man argument. The core principles enshrined in the founding documents of this country originate from the concept of Natural Law, which is written by God in the hearts of all men.
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posted on
02/22/2014 2:36:34 PM PST
by
AHerald
("Do not fear, only believe." - Mark 5:36)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
02/22/2014 2:39:34 PM PST
by
Jacquerie
( Obama has established executive branch precedents that no election can reverse. Article V.)
To: EveningStar
Which God did that? Humans have invented thousands of Gods.
To: EveningStar
I believe God directed the authors of our Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
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posted on
02/22/2014 2:41:09 PM PST
by
originalbuckeye
("A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue;)
To: originalbuckeye
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posted on
02/22/2014 2:42:38 PM PST
by
sport
To: bigheadfred
If God doesn’t exist, then he couldn’t have written the Constitution.
But if God does exist, he favors that which is good.
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posted on
02/22/2014 2:47:27 PM PST
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: EveningStar
If God doesnt exist, then he couldnt have written the Constitution.
But if God does exist, he favors that which is good.
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posted on
02/22/2014 2:48:16 PM PST
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: EveningStar
Do you think Madison and the others were really channeling God when they wrote the Constitution? The DOI openly states rights are endowed by the creator. Many Founders, including James Wilson and Joseph Story, openly stated Christianity was a basis for the law.
So, yes, I think the Founders were thinking about God and the Bible when they wrote the Constitution. It is fair to say God inspired the constitution.
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posted on
02/22/2014 2:50:27 PM PST
by
Kazan
To: elkfersupper
Which God did that? The real one -- the God the Bible, who the Founders repeatedly referenced.
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posted on
02/22/2014 2:51:53 PM PST
by
Kazan
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