I had posted this on another blog but the beautiful lady suggested I post it as blog of my own and I'm not one to turn downa request from a beautiful lady so here it is
DID YOU KNOW? *
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!
DID YOU KNOW? *
As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.
DID YOU KNOW? *
As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall,
right above where the Supreme Court judges sits a display of the Ten Commandments!
DID YOU KNOW?
There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and
Monuments in Washington, D.C.
DID YOU KNOW?
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 ach and all
of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves
according to the Ten Commandments of God."
DID YOU KNOW?
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".
DID YOU KNOW?
Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose
salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.
DID YOU KNOW?
Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the
established orthodox churches in the colonies.
DID YOU KNOW?
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.
DID YOU KNOW?
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 ?
Lets put it around the world and let the world see and remember what this
great country was built on.
I was asked to send this on if I agreed or delete if I didn't.
Now it is your turn...
It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore, it is very
hard to understand why there is such a mess about having the Ten
Commandments on display or "In God We Trust" on our money and having God in the Pledge of Allegiance. Why don't we just tell the other 14% to Sit Down
and SHUT UP!!!
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ShieldofHonor
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Nov 7 @ 11:18AM
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People in the minority often have the loudest voices and complain the most.
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texasblues
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Nov 7 @ 11:28AM
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Before it comes up here no I did not write this, just cut and paste, but I do believe in what it says.
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EternalFlame
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Nov 7 @ 11:31AM
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DID YOU KNOW
that according to Snopes.com, most of this is inaccurate to some degree?
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Secure699
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Nov 7 @ 11:43AM
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E PLURIBUS UNUM
"out of many one"
There is much to be said for that phrase a well. My god may not be your god, though hopefully we share many of the same tennants. If its your way or the highway then there may be a problem. The constitution doesnt deny religion in politics it does deny the state to interfere in your religion, hence the reason the forefathers left in the first place.
In god we trust makes no mention of which god we need to trust just that we have faith.
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texasblues
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Nov 7 @ 11:46AM
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well snopes also says Mr.Ed was a Zebra
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j72foru
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Nov 7 @ 11:52AM
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Religion never did make much sense to me. The Commandments on the other hand, are pretty good rules to live by. Religion was invented to scare! Was it the right way to go? 2000 years ago-mabe. The whole middle east was a rape and pillage fest back in the day ( read your history books). Now we're stuck with " In god we trust" on every damn thing! Even our laws are tainted with something that don't exist. God is a controlling hoax............. 
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daisy315
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Nov 7 @ 12:07PM
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God doesn't control us... he gave us all free will..
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EternalFlame
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Nov 7 @ 12:08PM
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well snopes also says Mr.Ed was a Zebra
Really? Could you link me?
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j72foru
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Nov 7 @ 12:21PM
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You gave yourself free-will Daisy. Believe that sweetheart. Why would you give someone else that kind of credit, at least give to someone who really deserves it-and that would be your Mother. 
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Kandykammy
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Nov 7 @ 12:24PM
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Who cares what Snopes says.  I am sick of people bringing up Snopes.
Thaks for bloging this Texas. It shows In God We Trust. 
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yashaenka
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Nov 7 @ 12:30PM
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One of the most common statements from the "Religious Right" is that they want this country to "return to the Christian principles on which it was founded". However, a little research into American history will show that this statement is a lie. The men responsible for building the foundation of the United States had little use for Christianity, and many were strongly opposed to it. They were men of The Enlightenment, not men of Christianity. They were Deists who did not believe the bible was true.
When the Founders wrote the nation's Constitution, they specified that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." (Article 6, section 3) This provision was radical in its day-- giving equal citizenship to believers and non-believers alike. They wanted to ensure that no single religion could make the claim of being the official, national religion, such as England had. Nowhere in the Constitution does it mention religion, except in exclusionary terms. The words "Jesus Christ, Christianity, Bible, and God" are never mentioned in the Constitution-- not once.
The Declaration of Independence gives us important insight into the opinions of the Founding Fathers. Thomas Jefferson wrote that the power of the government is derived from the governed. Up until that time, it was claimed that kings ruled nations by the authority of God. The Declaration was a radical departure from the idea of divine authority.
The 1796 treaty with Tripoli states that the United States was "in no sense founded on the Christian religion" (see below). This was not an idle statement, meant to satisfy muslims-- they believed it and meant it. This treaty was written under the presidency of George Washington and signed under the presidency of John Adams.
None of the Founding Fathers were atheists. Most of the Founders were Deists, which is to say they thought the universe had a creator, but that he does not concern himself with the daily lives of humans, and does not directly communicate with humans, either by revelation or by sacred books. They spoke often of God, (Nature's God or the God of Nature), but this was not the God of the bible. They did not deny that there was a person called Jesus, and praised him for his benevolent teachings, but they flatly denied his divinity. Some people speculate that if Charles Darwin had lived a century earlier, the Founding Fathers would have had a basis for accepting naturalistic origins of life, and they would have been atheists. Most of them were stoutly opposed to the bible, and the teachings of Christianity in particular.
Yes, there were Christian men among the Founders. Just as Congress removed Thomas Jefferson's words that condemned the practice of slavery in the colonies, they also altered his wording regarding equal rights. His original wording is here in blue italics: "All men are created equal and independent. From that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable." Congress changed that phrase, increasing its religious overtones: "All men are created equal. They are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights." But we are not governed by the Declaration of Independence-- it is a historical document, not a constitutional one.
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j72foru
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Nov 7 @ 12:36PM
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NICE!! yashaenka. I love TRUE HISTORY. 
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bardnsage
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Nov 7 @ 12:46PM
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SNOPEs - Great place to find a source, but not a source in an of itself. Similar to Google. Go and look up the references they site.
For me, religion should not be part of government. Then again, so should the lack of religion not be mandated by government. If you don't like something, ignore it unless it costs you dollars. My tax dollars spent on debating removing religious icons from buildings, or to rewrite oldy moldy doucments, burns me up. It's a ploy used by politicians to start a debate over something that has nothing to do with running the business of the country. Take all the money and time we spend on debating such things, and we could fund meaningful research into curing cancer, finding alternative sources of fuel to get the country off the madness of oil futures, etc. etc.
Just ignore it. If schools want the have a moment of silent (prayer), fine. Quit wasting time debating it. You will not find them prohibiting a muslim child from praying in their own special way. Basically, if what ever you do in religious beliefs does not create (REAL) damages to a person, place, or thing, then do it. Telling me your feelings are hurt is not a REAL damage. Put a dollar on your feelings. You may think it's high, but I don't think it's worth anything. I should bill you for taking time away from our lawgivers to pursue such NON-SENSE.
If you believe in God, fine. If you believe in Allah, fine. If you believe in yourself only, fine. I don't give a shit.
If we are going to have this long winded pointless debate, then let's settle it every four years. We'll make it part of the US Administrative Code, so it doesn't need a vote by congress, and it doesn't need to go through the steps of ammending the constitution. Same as all the OSHA, EPA, TAX, EDUCATION, etc. regulations have passed down. We will have a vote during the presidential election. Right on the ballot, majority vote, winner take all. All for having the stuff on the wall, vote. All opposed, vote. There, the I's have it, and the rest of you can go get stuffed, until the next four years election.
If you don't like that idea, then you must feel you are in the minority on this position, so shut the f**k up. You are not granted the ability to have or not have religious belieifs, only the freedom to practice what ever you beleive without government kicking in your door and shooting you in the head. Everything else is just fodder for politicians to weave meaningless platforms around.
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texasblues
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Nov 7 @ 1:22PM
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The only way to know for sure if God is a hoax or not is to die. I myself have faith and contend to way and see if I'm right. But I'll not stand in the way of any that feel that God is hoax and want to prove it to themself.
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padreroyalataol
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Nov 7 @ 1:52PM
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"" Why don't we just tell the other 14% to Sit Down
and SHUT UP!!! ""
I'm in agreement until I got to this line.
JMO
richard
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SunBabe
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Nov 7 @ 4:17PM
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 Cool! Great architectual/philosophical history in that Snopes article...a great source for broadening ones knowledge (and as a catylyst to get down the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  )
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eastham
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Nov 7 @ 4:38PM
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DID YOU KNOW?
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 ach and all
of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves
according to the Ten Commandments of God."
James Madison was a deist and not a Christian, a Christian being defined as a person who believes that Jesus was divine. Madison also said that "religious bondage shackles and debitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize." On Christianity, Madison said, "Where are its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, irgnorance and servility in the laity, in both superstition, bigotry and persecution."
DID YOU KNOW?
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.
Jefferson was also a deist. Did you know that Jefferson, the founder and president of the University of Virginia, banned the teaching of theology at that school? Did you know that Jefferson penned a New Testament in which he exercized all mention of Jesus as a divine being. Jefferson said at its publication, "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." Jefferson also dimissed the Book of Revelations as "the ravings of a maniac."
In 1797, our new government concluded a treaty with the Barbary pirates. The treaty passed the Congress unanimously, its 339th vote. The Treaty of Tripoli says, in part:
As the Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion -- as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquillity of Musselmen--and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister once said, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
I don't share Jefferson's and Madison's antipathy toward religion, but I also object to a misrepresentation of our nation's founding. We are special. Our Founding Fathers took the words of a bunch of radical French philosphers and formed it into a country -- a country where laws and not the whims of a king would rule the day, a country where people would be committed to learning and being skeptical of authority. How disappointed would be these same men today?
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texasblues
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Nov 7 @ 4:58PM
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kind of like the one about Jefferson and Madison being deist?
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Kandykammy
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Nov 7 @ 6:25PM
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One of the most common statements from the "Religious Right" is that they want this country to "return to the Christian principles on which it was founded".
We were much better off when we had religion in our schools. We were taught morals back then. We did not have the mess we have today.
It is time to bring Christanity back to the schools.
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daisy315
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Nov 7 @ 8:01PM
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J72.. religon never made alot of sense to me either.. I am not a religous person... just very spiritual.. But I do believe in God..
My mom gave me life... and after hearing her tell me she could take it away... lol.. too many times.. I believed her.
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RainSongSpirit
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Nov 7 @ 8:14PM
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eastham
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Nov 8 @ 7:19AM
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Texas,
That Franklin, Jefferson, et al were deists was not from Snopes, but a matter of historical record. I would recommend the biography of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, Walter Isaacson's book on Benjamin Franklin, Gary Wills bio of Madison and his most recent book Head and Heart, which is about the mythmaking about the founding of the country. These are great scholars, but also wonderful writers -- no dry prose in the bunch. BTW, Jefferson's Bible is still in print.
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texasblues
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Nov 8 @ 8:26AM
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eastham
Like it or not this country early settlers(nation builders) were Christian from Europe, not the lost tribe of Israel, Cathars, Wiccas, Shaolin monks, Mongul hoardes or any group. That there is Christian stamp on our nation is no surprise. Our forefathers saw fit to set up a system that would be accepting of all. I have no problem with people believing in whatever they want, that the great thing about this country, the fact you able to do that. What does upset me is after the door was thrown open wide in welcome to all these others, they want the host to change their home. They want to revise history to suit their believe. In the very article you cut and pasted from Jefferson says he is a Christian, the author choses to label him deist. In the snopes article it denies the ten commandments being on some these building because it just has the numerals 1 to 10  Certain people and groups would deny it even if God himself (herself for the ones that believe that way) came down and engraved it. Now if all these people want to go start their own country and not have any mention of God if I visited there I would respect that. So please leave these find things my Christian forefathers forged alone. Because in God I do trust. Oh and looking at the names of the author of your source material you don't think they may have been bais in trying to say these great men were not Christians?
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