God, Country and Freedom
I was listening to Sen Rick Santorum being interviewed on talk radio as he pushes his new book, "It Takes a Family."
With all of the rhetoric that his book will generate vis-a-vis the relationship of God in our society, it got the TrekMedic to musing about such a concept.
The concept of freedom as a divine right doesn't simply go back to the Founding Fathers, many of whom mentioned God in their Federalist writings.
One needs only look to the Old Testament and the tales of Moses: God saw fit to deliver His faithful away from slavery and set down a series of laws (The Ten Commandments) by which these people should live.
This concept of freedom to worship and express belief without threat of persecution has since become intertwined within our societal fabric. Just as in the Commandments, we have legal mechanisms in place to punish those who steal or kill. We have civil avenues to address those who covet their neighbor's spouses and goods.
It has been with our society through the Crusades, through both the American and French Revolutions, through a World War that attempted to destroy a religious belief, and even to this day.
And this concept does not simply cover the Judeo-Christian aspects of our society: In the past decade, as a non-theistic country such as Yugoslavia disintegrated, the world sought allow Catholic Croatians the freedom to believe without fear from the Orthodox Serbs, the Orthodox Serbs the freedom to believe without fear from the Catholic Croatians, and the Muslim Bosnians and Kosovars the freedom to believe without fear from the other two.
Even now, "W" is working with our allied countries to bring this freedom of belief to Muslims oppressed by Islamic fundamentalists.
So,....recapping:
God = Freedom, Freedom = Peace,....
Therefore,....
God = Peace
posted by TheBitterAmerican @ 6:48 PM
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The Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed,
"deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed"
In God's name why do you simps pervert everything you touch?
Not God - The governed
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator"
Hey, anonymous, you just shot down your own defense. Creator = God.
Ever notice how people without the balls to stck their neck out and post an opposing POV always come in under the radar as "anonymous?"
Right, Daniel UA?
Funny you should bring this up.
And the rebuttal of anonydickless was nicely handled. Furthermore, if it'd read the FIRST paragraph of the DoI, it'd have noticed this phrase:
"the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,"
Not God, huh? COulda fooled me and ol' Tommy J.
Fish Heads
It has been with our society through the Crusades, through both the American and French Revolutions,
The French Revolutions was as much against God as it was the king. The stated intentions of those revolutionaries was to "hang the last king with the guts of the last priest".
Nuns and priests were butchered, and Reason was raised to the level of a divinity which was quiet literally worshipped in Notre Dame Cathedral.
It holds with your theme though, because it was in this environment of revolution without God that the rivers of blood flowed during hte Terror.
1) "Fish Heads??" Oohh,..my hands are shaking so much, I might not post again for weeks! Nice comeback, you Socialist Eunuch>
2)Der Tommisar, thanks,..I already knew that, but it was an error of omission on my part. BTW, sorry I haven't visited your site in awhile.
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