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Originally Posted by Sally Numor And he also wants people to think him the newest messenger from God....
Just proves he and his base are a bit mentally unstable... Dominionism The Despoiling Of America
Scary and true...so everytime you think you know what Bush is about...go back to this idea and shudder at what they are doing with this world in the Middle east and ask yourself...who is the terrorist? | Quite an interesting post. However, upon further reading, I find the author to be rather loose with her quotations of others, in fact, she quite clearly manipulates what an individual has actually said, to fullfill her own viewpoint. Case in point quoting the author To give you a sense of the potential horror of this movement, Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court has said that the Bible teaches and Christians believe "...that government ...derives its moral authority from God. Government is the 'minister of God' with powers to 'revenge', to 'execute wrath', including even wrath by the sword..." [3]
However, what Scalia actually says is quite different.
Scalia quotes a 1940 decision of the Court, now correct me if I am wrong but has Scalia been on the bench that long? I mean come now all these years I thought that Scalia had been appointed by Reagan in 1986 or so. But any way back to the quote that stated "we are a religious people, whose institutions presuppose a Surpreme Being". Scalia quoted this decision to support his contention that Americans are unlike Europeans and therefore more likely to believe the philosophy of St Paul, "that government carries the sword as "the Minister of God" to "execute wrath upon evildoers."
So it would seem that the author of the piece quoted cannot even quote other accurately. What a shame. Like everything else just another in a long line of pure crap. Once again, it shows just how far some will go to show the world and their fellow citizens just how evil the current Republican adminstrations is in their view. I wonder how many of her other quotes are wrong as well?? Intellectual dishonesty or something more sinsister.....YOU DECIDE!!!!!!!!!
dmk Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles -Russell Kirk- |