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Tom Delay Falsely Says G-d Wrote the Constitution - Biblical
There's a RAW Story from a few weeks back and it quotes Tom Delay spouting the purported belief as an item of fact that "People keep forgetting that God ‘wrote the Constitution".
As quoted by RAW Story verbatim, Tom Delay's remarks are;
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) this week warned Americans to remember that God “wrote the Constitution” based on the Bible.
“I think we got off the track when we allowed our government to become a secular government,” DeLay explained. “When we stopped realizing that God created this nation, that he wrote the Constitution, that it’s based on biblical principles.”
This Jew for Jesus wannabe Agnostic {moi} - calls out Bull C H I T!
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Sorry to burst Tom Delay (and every other RWNJs') bubble; but Addicting Info has on online item that slam dunks this bogus belief/theory into the out-house crap hole it belongs. Beyond the shadow of any doubt, keeping religion out of government was the priority of all the founding fathers. Addicting Info's online thread documenting this - is titled apropos "35 founding fathers quotes that conservative Christian's will Hate".
It states such axiomatic principals as Item 5 - by John Adams - that;
5. “The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
~1797 Treaty of Tripoli signed by Founding Father John Adams
~1797 Treaty of Tripoli signed by Founding Father John Adams
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Here are some more perfect quotes of the likes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and others...I would steadfastly suggest that we read each item and quote them often. For the founding fathers also points out that society advances and people rush to - the parts of the country where freedom is assured.
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1. “If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.”
~Founding Father George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789
16. “And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.”
~Founding Father James Madison, letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822
28. “No religious doctrine shall be established by law.”
~Founding Father Elbridge Gerry, Annals of Congress 1;729-731
~Founding Father George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789
12. “History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson: in letter to Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813
16. “And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.”
~Founding Father James Madison, letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822
28. “No religious doctrine shall be established by law.”
~Founding Father Elbridge Gerry, Annals of Congress 1;729-731
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Can anyone write like the founding fathers, from the days of yore?
WOW! - The sheer simplicity of what they say is absolutely astounding.
As is this one (explaining how I'm a Jew for Jesus wannabe Agnostic), as dear ole founding father Thomas Jefferson made this apropos note that;
10. “Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787
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This pick below, is from a gal I've come to admire (Betty Bowers). She has created her own brand of marketing and nailing the points with wry/sardonic humor always hitting the bull chit in its guts.
Here's Betty Bowers Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mrs-Betty-Bowers-Americas-Best-Christian/312383761871?fref=nf
Here's Betty Bowers website - http://bettybowers.com/
This is here Twitter page - https://twitter.com/BettyBowers (@ BettyBowers)
Betty's website makes a note of what the average middle eastern terrorist would look like....
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