Did You Know....

Mikeinsmd

New Member
As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. 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 he is holding the Ten Commandments!

As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.

As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right 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?
 

Larry Gude

Strung Out
I love the easy ones...

...it is my ever so humble opinion that in the past leaders were comfortable with the power of and knew the value of God.

If we are endowed with certain inalienable rights by our creator, if we are all created equal, then we have a solid foundation for basing rights and wrongs and passing judgment not on what a man or men says, but on what it is thought that our creator says. It ain't me, God says so!

A common religion binds a people, a culture, as it provides a fabric all will recognize and can cling to. Pretty much all blacks, whites and hispanics in the US could go to one anothers churches and feel kindrid, would recognize the teachers and preachings. Style may be different but the faith is the same.

You don't even have to be a person of faith. You've been exposed to Christianity your whole life and it is recognizable. We recognize the shared concept of an angry God, a wrathful God, an understanding God, a forgiving God and that forms our common bond of accepting how we dole out justice.

As of late, the last 30 years or so, a growing number of people would rather it be known that it is their word, their idea of justice that matters, not some mythical booger man. Instead of being comfortable using God as binding tool, a common, unifying thread they want common agreement based on the word of man.
 
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