Gingrich, with Citizens United film in tow, to speak at Minnesota Family Council event

Clearly the founders meant to establish a religious state.

1. They made no mention of God or Christianity in the Constitution.

2. They wrote, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” at the beginning of the US Constitution’s very First Amendment.

3. And in Article VI they wrote “No religious test shall be required to serve public office.”

How could a reasonable person conclude anything but that the founders intended the US to be a Christian nation? Unbiased knowledge as it turns out.

Praise Jebus, God hates conflicting documentation, Amen.

I wonder how they explain architecture that was mirrored after Greek/Roman temples for numerous pagan, male and female, deities on their “architectural” walking tour. They seem to forget that Jefferson cut and pasted his own Bible because he really wasn’t all that impressed with the Judeo-Christian God…. and that the founding fathers were aware that non-Christians – whether pagan/heathen, Deists or Jewish – were to be part of the founding of a nation. They had witnessed the sometimes horrifying results of colonial puritanism and Sunday Laws and knew that no citizen should be forced to participate, or forced to pledge allegiance to, any state-sanctioned expression of god.

As for the question of the pursuit of Happiness – and the socialist tendency to want to spread/share “happiness” – I think they might want to ask themselves if Jesus would have been impressed with their claim that they shouldn’t have to share their Happiness – which he seems to interpret as $$. They certainly want to keep the right to proselytize/share the “Love”, right? If people can’t support each other and share the fruits of their Happiness Pursuits to some degree, then I fear their insistence that God get all up in the government is coming from a place of Control – not Love.

Taxes are not socialism.

Newt, The Ego Maniac, has an alter ego of a jackal. Let him run, the public will reject him out of hand. What a jackass!

“In 2009, Gingrich made the assertion at a “Rediscovering God in America” event that Christians are surrounded by paganism in America.”

Ah yes. The good, godly, holiness-seeking, white, conservative folks are the apples of God’s eye, his favorite mortals. In fact, they’re the best that the species has to offer, as long as they’re American, that is.

All the rest aren’t fully human. These eternal Others know not what they do. They interpret the Bible incorrectly, or reject the Bible altogether as a moral guide. They don’t know that all the knowledge we need to know was discovered at some indeterminate point in the past, and that all we need to do is obey the proper authority. The godly conservative Christian has the great fortune of knowing that his deity agrees with him on everything that matters, and shares his enemies and friends.

These Others are lost, and they’re dangerous.

The forces of conservative godliness are beset on all sides by this darkness–the intellectuals, artists, and university professors, the breakthrough thinkers and the truly ungodly scientific community, the poets and writers and moral visionaries. What dangers these freethinkers are to the glorious rigidly-ordered conservative future!

The arc of history appears to be a curve to the left. At the same time the pious conservative holds that the author of the universe yet writes its pages. No contradiction is noticed, and none comprehended.

Gingrich has got religion. That’s believable. I’m just waiting for him to dump this wife and marry his next mistress. Now that’s godliness!

I need to find my witch hat so I can go to this event. hee hee

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.

http://freethought.mbdojo.com/foundingfathers.html

What uh which wife this time?
Oh not the one thats dead and as shes dying he serves up the divorce papers on, oh a real up standing member of society ,running for office. Heres a idea shup up count your money and please never come out of your house again or better yet go live with cheney in a jail cel