Posted on 09/22/2015 12:36:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Carson has said as much.
FWIW, the Pope wouldn’t want the US to be a theocracy either! God gave man free will and the pope would hope everyone fell in love with Jesus Christ but would never want anyone to go against his formed conscience and would want all to feel a part of the government of by for the people!
He could have put it in much simpler terms for the simpletons in the media. That’s really the gist of what I’m trying to say here.
All law is built on someone’s moral code. The US Constitution only works as a Christian document. Drop the Christian underpinnings and the Constitution falls apart.
All he had to say was he was against electing Obama for a reason.
And wink at the camera.
Here’s what needs to happen: someone with the resources and time to do so needs to go digging up all the comments by people saying that an Evangelical, Born-Again Christian shouldn’t be President.
Then beat the Libs over their heads with it.
I remember a LOT of such comments when GW Bush was running.
Lol... Good one
Unless when your hypothetical candidate was using taquiya regarding his acceptance of the Constitution. It may have happened already.
Not really. The Constitution is indeed a stand alone document. It does not need any specific, or any religion at all to be function.
It simply puts the rights of the individual at the core, and says that government exists for the people, not the other way around. A Christian can make fine use of it, but the constitution does not require it, and does not fall apart if a non Christian handles it. That’s silly.
The US Constitution is not a moral system. It is, however based on the rights given to us by God.
“Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. “
John Adams
The mistake modern secularists make is obvious. They take a twentieth century concept like “secularism” and read it back into the Constitution. They take a concept that didn’t even exist in the eighteenth century and attribute it to the framers of the Constitution. Unfortunately, this is a very common mistake. The fact that the word “God” does not appear in the Constitution means little. It is actually a rather shallow observation. The reality is “God” is in every word of the Constitution, including the punctuation. Below the surface of the words in the Constitution, there are a mountain of ideas that made its formation possible. The belief that God exists and that all nations of the world are subject to Him sits on the summit of that mountain. As the Supreme Court of Florida said in 1950: “Different species of democracy have existed for more than 2,000 years, but democracy as we know it has never existed among the unchurched. A people unschooled about the sovereignty of God, the ten commandments and the ethics of Jesus, could never have evolved the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. There is not one solitary fundamental principle of our democratic policy that did not stem directly from the basic moral concepts as embodied in the Decalog and the ethics of Jesus . . . No one knew this better than the Founding Fathers.” Note 3.
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No one is advocating a theocracy except the godless left who want a mandated atheist government and world.
..and some Muslims.
Really? Our founding fathers intended for freedom of religion to be second fiddle to sodomy? The Constitution doesn’t stand alone. The whole system of law is always built on a moral system. Either a Christian one or something else.
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The Constitution is a LEGAL document. Nothing about God in the Constitution. Its presumptions, however, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, are ALL about God.
What falls apart is good faith application of the Constitution when those in charge of applying the Constitution (or ignoring the Constitution) are non-Christians or atheists.
I knew I would get the “taquiya” angle here and you’re right it is a factor. That’s why we need an educated, savvy electorate to sort out the candidates and their backgrounds. Sadly, we don’t seem to have smart educated voters at all, quite the opposite exists.
The Republic’s democratic voting process is quite an ugly mess but it’s all we have to work with. We cannot make idiots vote the way we want them to like the democrats do. We have to try to work within the process we have.
Pray America wakes up in time.
I might be, but let us first define what we mean by the word theocracy. I mean what the word literally means that God rules. Jesus said " all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me" so the state is beholden to him. What is more is Paul declares in Romans 13 that the civil magistrate is God's minister so no matter what denomination they are under God.
What it is often meant to mean is that a particular church or denomination is in control of the civil magistrate, much like the Roman Catholic church controlled Spain in the late middle ages. Sectarian control is a violation if spheres of authority that were instituted by God. God instituted three separate forms of social government, the family, the state and the church. They intersect in some small areas, but not all areas. The three are distinct in their jurisdiction membership and rules.
Liberals use the canard of a theocracy to attempt to secularize the power of the state and to violate jurisdictional boundaries. They also advocate a theocracy, they just want to be god. In that way the theological presuppositions of candidate are foundation to how they will govern. So while a denominational test is inappropriate, a religious test (beliefs not membership)is appropriate, simply because it defines one's ethics (which is the main duty of government), metaphysics, epistemology and teleology.
No.
Cruz didn't criticize Carson.
Cruz is eligible.
That’s my point. Every legal system is based on a moral system. If you choose a non christian moral system you get a non christian legal system. Every legal system is a reflection of society’s theology.
I am talking about human civil government. Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Acknowledging that is not yet enforced. One day every knee shall bow. Until then we obey Him by proclaiming His death and resurrection until He comes. Some will heed the call to submit to His authority. Some will not. None of that is to be enforced through civil government by His own authority. We should love God’s law and make our choices based on them. The Judeo-Christian ethic is an important foundation to civil government. But because even the church is highly subject to corruption and governments are led by corruptible men, we have a brilliant system of government which encourages religion and morality in general but does not choose between theologies. Each individual is accountable to God, not men. Our rights are from God, not men. Getting that concept right is essential.
True, but would he still be considered a good Muslim by other Muslims? I think not. And going that far, he/she might as well renounce Islam entirely.
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