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U.S. Constitution Title: Christianity Is In the Constitution http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=26256&Disp=12#C12
**rr*t M*k* to A K A Stone: "That was a excellent interpretation of the religion clause of the First Amendment. The fact you don't understand Constitutional law enough to see that is on you, not me.
The framers' point was obviously that one's sense of religion is their own to deal with; which means if someone does not want religion, it is their Constitutional right not to believe or belong to one.
The Constitution is a framework, and thus dopes not need everything covered under each part of it in excruciating detail as law codes.
The First Amendment also does not mention Christianity either, yet people like you would act like it does and claim the Constitution meant for Christianity to be the 'special' religion in this country.
You should read more on Constitutional law or take a course on it. Because I am tired of arguing in a situation where I feel I am trying to explain to a child how airplanes stay in the air."
Christianity Is In the Constitution
by Dave Miller, Ph.D.
Constitution of the United States; Original Text
Those who insist that America was not intended to be a “Christian nation” point to the obvious absence of specific directives regarding Christianity in the federal Constitution. The popular propaganda since the 1960s has been that “the irreligious Framers did not want the nation to retain any attachment to the Christian religion.” Such an assertion is a monstrous perversion of historical fact. The truth of the matter is that they were fearful of the potential interference by the federal government in its ability to place restrictions on the free exercise of the Christian religion. Consequently, they desired that the specifics of religion be left up to the discretion of the several states.
Nevertheless, we must not think for a moment that the federal Framers did not sanction the nation’s intimate affiliation with Christianity, or that they attempted to keep religion out of the Constitution. On the contrary, the Christian religion is inherently assumed and implicitly present in the Constitution. In fact, the United States Constitution contains a direct reference to Jesus Christ! Consider three proofs for these contentions (See Constitution of the United..., 1789).
If provision had been made for Muslims, the Constitution would have read “Fridays excepted.” If the Founders had intended to encourage a day of inactivity for the government without regard to any one religion, they could have chosen Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Instead, the federal Constitution reads “Sundays excepted”—proving conclusively that America was Christian in its orientation and that the Framers themselves shared the Christian worldview and gave political recognition to and accommodation of that fact.
Article VII, the Constitution closes with the following words:
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth....
Did you catch it? Their work was done “in the Year of our Lord.” The Christian world dates all of human history in terms of the birth of Christ. “B.C.” means “before Christ,” and “A.D.” is the abbreviation for the Latin words “anno Domini,” meaning “year of our Lord.” If the Framers were interested in being pluralistic, multi-cultural, and politically correct, they would have refrained from using the B.C./A.D. designation. Or they would have used the religionless designations “C.E.,” Common Era, and “B.C.E.,” Before the Common Era (see “Common Era,” 2008). In so doing, they would have avoided offending Jews, atheists, agnostics, and humanists. Or they could have used “A.H.” (anno hegirae—which means “in the year of the Hijrah” and refers to Muhammad’s flight from Mecca in A.D. 622), the date used by Muslims as the commencement date for the Islamic calendar. Instead, the Framers chose to utilize the dating method that indicated the worldview they shared. What’s more, their reference to “our Lord” does not refer to a generic deity, nor does it refer even to God the Father. It refers to God the Son—an explicit reference to Jesus Christ. Make no mistake: the Constitution of the United States contains an explicit reference to Jesus Christ—not Allah, Buddha, Muhammad, nor the gods of Hindus or Native Americans!
Article 1 - Section 7
If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
http://www.senate.gov/civics/constitution_item/constitution.htm
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My view is that both the left and right are completely out to lunch on this. The left is wrong -- most of the founders were profoundly religious people who believed in a creator that gave us natural rights that no government has the authority to take away. The right is also wrong -- many of the founders were not "traditional" Christians. Thomas Jefferson (the author of the Declaration of Independence) spent an enormous amount of time creating the Jefferson Bible -- basically the Bible without the miracles. Why would he do this? Because he believed in the morality of the Bible, not the miracles. Modern American "Conservatives" at least have some foundation in American tradition, even though they get some portions of it wrong. Modern American "leftists" don't have any footing in America's founding at all. Their lineage starts with the European Communist scum that arose decades after America was founded and started to infect America during the Regressive Era.
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