Freedom is a word that should invoke a sense of peace. When one accepts the free gift of pardon from Jesus Christ there is a peace that passeth all understanding. If you have tasted the freedom under the protection of the constitution you experience a little taste of that type peace. I am old enough to have lived under that freedom. I know what it is to feel freedom. To live without fear or opression of government. To know what it is like not to have government meddeling in things that are none of their affair.
Founding Quotes from Founding Fathers.
"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
Freedom is not that things are always right or good or even just. There have always existed things that did not seem right. Freedom allows the opportunity for free discourse, the ability to take a stand, and yes even die for what you believe to be the right course. To grow and change and become a good citizen.
Founding Quotes from Founding Fathers.
"If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained _ we must fight!" Patrick Henry
When government meddles in the affairs of men, in places it has not authority and attempts to be all things to all people the result is confusion, disappointment, and turmoil. We have arrived in those days. God never intended man and his government to reign supreme. When government assumes that position it robs God of his glory.
The Founding Fathers were careful to give place and due respect to the Creator. They were careful to acknowledge that freedom and liberty were and are gifts of God. When we fail to apply government in it's proper position then we are courting disaster. Wisdom of man is but foolishness with God and without divine guidance it can only lead to vanity.
Founding Quotes from Founding Fathers.
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson
Washington has become vain in their thoughts and actions. They believe (they being the president,congress,senate, and the court) that they know better what the people need than the people do and therefore can ignore their will. That the governors are more wise than the governed. There was an overwhelming cry against the bailouts of private business and we were ignored. There has been a cry of NO! on this so called healthcare which is nothing more than controlcare and they are pressing on. Global warming aka climate change is a hoax and the people know but they keep telling the lie and moving forward selling out our national sovereignty and sending us to bankruptcy.
Founding Quote from Founding Fathers.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.
We must educate ourselves about our constitutional rights and demand that the legislators return to our God fearing conservative roots. If we continue to be ignored then we must work to remove those in the seat of power. The time to work is now! It will soon be too late and we will be forced into situation that will be less than desirable. Our grand children and great grandchildren are at stake.
David
Showing posts with label freedom of religion guaranteed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom of religion guaranteed. Show all posts
Friday, December 11, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The First Amendment
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
We first see that the Founding Fathers addressed first things first. Note that they were concerned that future generations would weaken and submit to tyranny. (as we have)They were placing in this first amendment a prohibition of the government establishing a state church. They were making sure that we did not violate free worship as a man sees fit even if it was not what they would choose. England had a state church ordained by the king and mandated to receive favor of the crown. It was the "preferred" (my word) and all others were not recognized. They wanted to guard against that. They were not agnostics or atheist as some would have you believe.
Founding Quote from our Founding Fathers
Benjamin Franklin:
“ God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel” –Constitutional Convention of 1787 | original manuscript of this speech
Patrick Henry:
“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” [May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses]
Further more as you can see they wanted to make clear that freedom of religion was the intention and not freedom from religion. Evil men desire to remove their accountability to God so they are attempting to create a new nation without God which can do nothing but fail.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
As you can see and I challenge you to find in the constitution or the founders intentions any reference of "separation of church and state" You will not find it. It is a lie that has been repeated to the people so many times they think it to be truth. For every vague reference the perpetrators of the lie make you can find hundreds of clear references to the hearts of the founders and their establishment of the free exercise of worship. One only has to look at the writings and even the architecture of Washington to see God was on the hearts and minds.
Founding Quote from the Founding Fathers:
Thomas Jefferson
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
Justice Joseph Story:
“ I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law. . . There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as laying its foundations.”
Freedom of speech is also guaranteed under the constitution. That freedom is not that a person may say anything he chooses without personal responsibility for such speech. There has to be a moral control to have an orderly society. Filth and gross declarations in the public arena will never benefit the speaker nor the hearer. Evil communications corrupt good manners. We have become a filthy society because the intentions of the founders have been misused. I do not say that difference of opinion should be suppressed nor should free discourse be punished or forbidden. All can have disagreements without the interjection of filthiness. I have always said a man with a filthy mouth has no respect for himself or those around him and it show that he is lacking in vocabulary necessary to hold an intelligent conversation.
Founding Quote from Founding Fathers
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
Alexander Hamilton
Our first amendment was designed to give Freedom and liberty. It is not to be given to the foolish use of its mandates. The founders intended that God and his Bible be the guiding principles and no amount of corrupting will change the original intent. Evil men are in power now. It is our duty to resist that evil and return our government to a Republic. A government of the people by the people and for the people.
God Bless America again!
David
We first see that the Founding Fathers addressed first things first. Note that they were concerned that future generations would weaken and submit to tyranny. (as we have)They were placing in this first amendment a prohibition of the government establishing a state church. They were making sure that we did not violate free worship as a man sees fit even if it was not what they would choose. England had a state church ordained by the king and mandated to receive favor of the crown. It was the "preferred" (my word) and all others were not recognized. They wanted to guard against that. They were not agnostics or atheist as some would have you believe.
Founding Quote from our Founding Fathers
Benjamin Franklin:
“ God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel” –Constitutional Convention of 1787 | original manuscript of this speech
Patrick Henry:
“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” [May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses]
Further more as you can see they wanted to make clear that freedom of religion was the intention and not freedom from religion. Evil men desire to remove their accountability to God so they are attempting to create a new nation without God which can do nothing but fail.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
As you can see and I challenge you to find in the constitution or the founders intentions any reference of "separation of church and state" You will not find it. It is a lie that has been repeated to the people so many times they think it to be truth. For every vague reference the perpetrators of the lie make you can find hundreds of clear references to the hearts of the founders and their establishment of the free exercise of worship. One only has to look at the writings and even the architecture of Washington to see God was on the hearts and minds.
Founding Quote from the Founding Fathers:
Thomas Jefferson
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
Justice Joseph Story:
“ I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law. . . There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as laying its foundations.”
Freedom of speech is also guaranteed under the constitution. That freedom is not that a person may say anything he chooses without personal responsibility for such speech. There has to be a moral control to have an orderly society. Filth and gross declarations in the public arena will never benefit the speaker nor the hearer. Evil communications corrupt good manners. We have become a filthy society because the intentions of the founders have been misused. I do not say that difference of opinion should be suppressed nor should free discourse be punished or forbidden. All can have disagreements without the interjection of filthiness. I have always said a man with a filthy mouth has no respect for himself or those around him and it show that he is lacking in vocabulary necessary to hold an intelligent conversation.
Founding Quote from Founding Fathers
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
Alexander Hamilton
Our first amendment was designed to give Freedom and liberty. It is not to be given to the foolish use of its mandates. The founders intended that God and his Bible be the guiding principles and no amount of corrupting will change the original intent. Evil men are in power now. It is our duty to resist that evil and return our government to a Republic. A government of the people by the people and for the people.
God Bless America again!
David
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