Gary <kw4z@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> On 5/2/08 11:08 PM, in article Xns9A92E19F2C7BDbat222@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "tango" <tango@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Very good article.
>> http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/02/evangelicals.ap/index.html
>
>
> Whether Pilgrim or Puritans America was founded by Religious peoples
> seeking freedom from the King of England but freedom to wor****p in
> their own ways and not dictated by government but most certainly
> establi****ng a government not isolated from belief in God. The
> prelude leading to our Constitution and Declaration of Independence
> including the Federalist papers were all by religious Christian men
> who I believe would be horrified at the way the Judicial system has
> sought to remove Christianity from anything to do with our Government.
> Even peoples rights to be atheist or agnostic and choosing not
> believe find their protections, to do so, from the desires and actions
> of religious people to protect freedom at all cost but not to the
> point of removing God from America. I feel that Christians and
> Religious people ought to be very involved in our political system but
> not to control it in a religious theocracy or by some moral doctrine
> which imposes their own denominational directives. This is what I
> believe the Puritans and Pilgrims would not want and wanted to protect
> against by the implementation of the separation of church and state.
> They (Puritans and Pilgrims) suffered much under the King of England
> depending on which Church he aligned himself with either Anglican or
> Roman Catholic and the desire to get away from that burden pushed them
> to seek a new life in America. Our freedoms and Moral Laws though
> find their origins in Religion however and today we have a society and
> Judicial System that wants to classify any religious person or
> Christian as idiots and mind numb zombies following blindly religious
> zealots. I'm also not saying that there isn't dangers when we allow a
> human theocracy to exist and control government for that's how we
> ended up with the Salem Witch Trials. As much as there are some
> religious people who accept just what the pastors say without their
> own thoughts or thinking so we have an electorate that votes just the
> same and often times just on political party alone and not on issues
> or performance of the candidates. There are mind numb followers in
> every category and peoples but I still feel we live in an atmosphere
> of hostility toward Christians and for multiple reasons and that
> hostility has permeated through the courts, Congress, and our
> educational system and one attribute of that is failure to teach
> history correctly and an overt attempt to remove anything Christian
> from our historical culture or past and certainly not to recognize God
> today.
>
> As a Christian I feel that our religious past has created blessings
> upon our country and likewise I feel that as we separate ourselves
> from God and attempt to do so willingly then we will inherit fruits of
> those decisions and bring judgment upon ourselves, all be it self
> inflicted judgment. Already the respect of life has diminished and an
> atmosphere of Greed has become common place to the point we have
> become so individualistic we don't care for our fellow man or the
> common good anymore but it's get the most while we can at any cost.
>
> It's just an opinion, mine, but I feel many others would agree. One
> of the greatest disappointments I have are in the many self determined
> religious leaders that due to their own greed, as in tele-evangelist,
> and personal politics based upon their own beliefs, as in Pat Robinson
> or the combination of the two as was evidenced in Jim Baker and PTL,
> Christians have put themselves in positions and places that they
> should have never been and in positions that have harmed the cause of
> religion, Christianity and the many faithful believers in God.
>
>
I agree, and nothing points this out more than the ignorant, voting for
politicians who proceed to run up huge deficits which will cost every
taxpayer thousands over that little tax cut they received.
Ronald Reagan was the master of this garbage with the so called trickle
down economics, which the guy who came up with the slogan admitted was a
total scam and PR stunt.
Bush has managed to top Reagan with the disastrous War in Iraq.
Massive corruption which somehow goes without comment if a Republican is
president but immediately becomes a criminal act if a Democrat is
president.
In short the GREEDY and anti abortion religious fanatics who ignore
criminal acts and corruption by those they somehow conceive as
Christians, of all things, are responsible as much as anyone for this
political divide and greed which has brought us to the brink of the worst
situation since the 1929 collapse.
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