GOD BLESS AMERICA

[al Hartman]

     This was e-mailed to me today.  I thought it worth reflection:


As you walk up the steps to the Capitol Building which houses the Supreme Court, you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view - it is Moses and the Ten Commandments!  
As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on the lower portion of each door.

As you sit inside the courtroom you can see on the wall above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!

There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.

James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our Constitution" made the following statement. "We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."

Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".

Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.

Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies.

Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law....an oligarchy....the rule of few over many.

The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said, "Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers."

How, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?

[jesusfreak]

How, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?

To play devil's advocate - perhaps we have developed into a nation possessing its own identity?  We no longer need a standard as we have formed our own?  Our founding fathers had neither of these, but only references to the most commonly accepted "higher power".

This is quite arguable, IMO.  

I guess it would come down to what exactly the reason was for the inclusion of "God" into our government and how this reflected the social values of the time.
--
lucas

[lenore]

 : I am resurrecting this old post:



                              Subject: Sad but true

               This made sense to me so I passed it on...
 
                       Dear God:
             Why didn't you save the school children at . . .
             Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96
             Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97
             Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97
             West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97
             Stamps, Arkansas 12/15/97
             Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98
             Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98
             Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98
             Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98
             Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98
             Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99
             Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99
             Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99
             Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99
             Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99
             Santee, California 3/5/01 and
             El Cajon, California 3/22/01 ?
             Sincerely,
             Concerned Student
       
             Reply:
            Dear Concerned Student:
            I am not allowed in schools.
            Sincerely,
            God
        How did this get started....
          -----------------
          Let's see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare complained
          she didn't want any prayer in our schools.
          And we said, OK...
                                    ------------------
          Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in school, the Bible
          that says  "thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your
          neighbors as yourself,"
          And we said, OK...
                                     -----------------
         Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they
         misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we
         might damage their self-esteem.
        And we said, an expert should know what he's talking about so we won't
        spank them anymore...
                                   ------------------
        Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our
        children when they misbehave.  And the school administrators said no
        faculty member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave
        because we don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be
        sued.
       And we accepted their reasoning...
                                  ------------------
       Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want,
       and they won't even have to tell their parents.
       And we said, that's a grand idea...
                                 ------------------
       Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and
       they're going to do it anyway, let's give our sons all the  condoms they
       want, so they can have all the fun they desire, and we won't have to
       tell their parents they got them at school.
       And we said, that's another great idea...
                                ------------------
       Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't matter what we
      do in private as long as we do our jobs.
      And we said, it doesn't matter what anybody, including the President,
      does in private as long as we have jobs and the economy is good...
                               ------------------
       And someone else took that appreciation a step further and published
       pictures of nude children and then stepped further still by making them
       available on the Internet.
       And we said, everyone's entitled to free speech...
                              ------------------
       And the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies
       that promote profanity, violence and illicit sex... And let's record
       music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic
       themes...
       And we said, it's just entertainment and it has no adverse effect and
       nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead...
                               ------------------
       Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why
       they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill
       strangers, classmates or even themselves.
                             ------------------
       Undoubtedly, if we thought about it long and hard enough, we could
       figure it out. I'm sure it has a great deal to do with...
                    "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW,"
                             ------------------
       Pass it on if you think it has merit! If not then just discard it...but
       if you discard this thought process, then don't you dare sit back and
       complain about what bad shape this world is in...