Posted on 12/15/2023 11:20:04 AM PST by backpacker_c
Prove it.
That is what the leftvdoes, and that is why we can’t coexist with them. Leftism and freedom can’t exist in the same space. I think President Trump understands this now.
Read the Founders words om Christianity, religon and the Bible.
Freedom of expression should *never* extend to damaging property, either private or public. If you want to burn a flag or Koran, buy it and do what you like; if you damage a statue on public land you should spend 10-15 on a chain gang, period, no exemptions, exceptions, exclusions or contextual excuses.
It doesn’t matter how foul you find something; I’m no fan of Harvey Milk, George Wallace, nor Islam, either, but if someone damaged anything like a statue or a building respecting any of those they need to go to jail and work at 50 cents an hour breaking rocks until complete repayment of any damage the do is made.
Property damage, like censorship, should never be tolerated, most ESPECIALLY when it is applied to those we loath. I hate the idea of a mosque anywhere, especially within earshot of me, but I’d vote to hang someone who burned one down.
Ron won’t be living in anyone’s head soon. He will be but a memory.
If it’s not in the Constitution or the DOI, or possibly the Federalist papers, I could not care less what it says as far as the making of laws. Ever hear of the Jefferson bible?
I think you’ve only read the Founder’s words that confirm your personal beliefs.
I think ‘Answers In Genesis’, a group that is by any standards ‘Christian’ and capable of arguing the Christian viewpoint well states it pretty interestingly:
“It is equally invalid to claim that the founders intended to create a specifically Christian nation. There is no record of any United States founding father indicating that the intent was to create or establish a Christian nation. If there were such a statement, every Christian in the United States today would know it, as it would be emblazoned above the entrance to almost every Christian school, inscribed on the cover of countless books in Christian bookstores, and included in countless email promotions.
No framer said that was his intent. The colonial American culture was nominally Christian, but the Constitution does not even mention God, much less Christ (unless one sheepishly counts that century’s standard dating method, “the year of our Lord”)—a curious omission for a document supposedly based on biblical principles and written as the foundation of a Christian nation.
There are no specifically biblical or Christian principles in the Constitution. The more than 400 pages of notes from the Constitutional Convention contain no instances of any constitutional principles being explicitly based on the Bible—much less the whole. Nor are there any expressly biblical teachings mentioned in The Federalist Papers, 85 essays written at the time to explain the Constitution and its principles to an audience very open to religious authority.
Some parts of the Constitution are consistent with, or not in opposition to, biblical principles. But there is no evidence that the framers took the principles from the Bible, and most of the supposedly “biblical” or “Christian” principles claimed by Christian America advocates are not uniquely biblical or Christian. The framers cited other sources for these principles, in particular “experience” and “history”—not the Bible.
Similarly, there is no specifically Christian or biblical language in the Declaration of Independence. Of the four references to God, the only biblical term in the Declaration is the general term Creator—a term used by deists, Jews, Christians, and secularists alike in 1776”
https://answersingenesis.org/culture/america/was-united-states-really-founded-christian-nation/
No, that’s not the same.
When does a religion stop being a religion?
How about when it involves human sacrifice, sexual abuse, or some other practice considered criminal or socially deviant?
Oh, STFU.
This type of cowardice is why we're losing the country.
A nativity scene on capitol grounds that you can visit with your family is normal and wholesome.
A statue of Baphomet is repugnant.
These things are not equal.
I would bet that Trump has quietly contributed to the cause without recognition. He has done this before.
I think knocking down that satan display was an act of free expression too.
We expect the govt to do everything for us.
Thank God we had a warrior stand up for what is right. Support him and be the warrior next time.
The court of public opinion is still strong. We need to change society, not the government. That is where the fight is.
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