God and the Constitution
This guy makes strong claims about the distance between God and the Constitution's formation. In Madison's notes its recorded that B. Franklin proposed that they pray every day because they were not getting anywhere with the convention. Also, Allen admits that Jefferson believed you must have religion to run a nation. And the emphasis on the "separation of church and state" is bogus, its not in the constitution, there were no great lengths taken to include it, and its interpretation depends on political manueverings of Jefferson.
Our Godless Constitution
posted by Johnny @ 12:26 PM
2 Comments:
The writer fallaciously uses selective evidence. To prove that some of the Founders were Deists does not prove that all of the Founders were not Christian. It is accurate to say that Deistic and Enlightenment principles were integral in the Revolution but this does not negate a Christian influence.
I greatly enjoyed the obligatory disparagement on the good guys in white hats:
"Adams opined that if they were not restrained by legal measures, Puritans--the fundamentalists of their day--would 'whip and crop, and pillory and roast.'"
I think it is funny that those radical fundamentalists wrote things like this in their statements of faith:
"We believe that Civil Government is of Divine appointment, for the interests and good order of human society; and that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored, and obeyed; except only in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only Lord of the conscience, and the Prince of the kings of the earth."
Nothing in there about pillorying. Amen?
Amen, great quote Roark.
I could not agree more, the article is absurdly skewed.
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