Oh, and how 'bout that Second Amendment? God had to be behind that one!
Oh, absolutely. 2A came from the heavens, carried on parchment by a dove. When placed in the BOR, a booming voice was heard from above saying, "This is my favorite Amendment, in which I am very pleased."
This nation has become so nit picky they have lost the spirit behind the laws. And before anyone has a fit I realize this discussion is not about a law. Just saying that same spirit seems to be moving into the church.
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Originally Posted by votivesoul
No one ever speaks too quickly off the cuff, uses hyperbole, or exaggerates, then tries to clarify when they realize they've gone too far? Everything everyone says has to be taken literally at all times.
No one ever mis-speaks and wishes they could take back what they said?
But when a comment becomes a sound bite, then it can be examined, analyzed, scrutinized, and argued over, ad infinitum.
I hope some of you never say anything stupid or perhaps inaccurate, not factual, or of a completely personal, yet divisive opinion ever again.
I agree, I think we have become way too nit-picky about everything.
I agree, I think we have become way too nit-picky about everything.
Absolutely. I mean, the audacity to take people's words literally instead of inferring what they must have meant! Waaayyyyy too nitpicky. We need more of guessing what people may have meant, and less of what they actually said!
I agree that this is probably what happened. I responded to the thread before I read his entire quote. He did say "God wrote....", but I doubt he meant inspired in the sense that the scripture is God's inspired Word.
As PO pointed out, the rest of the comment gives context, and he probably misspoke.
However, it is offensive to me for anyone to suggest that a man-made document is on par with scripture, and I do think Delay is, at the very least, giving too much credit to our forefathers. Some of them were godly men, some of them weren't. Some of them were guided by God, and others were not. Our Constitution is most definitely a superb document, by and large founded on scriptural principles that everyone involved could agree on.
I just think than when the Founding Fathers claim to have written this document based on Christian principles, you have to know they had to have sought God in the same way someone who is writing a book or a song seeks God for thought and inspiration. That is the point I believe Delay is making.
I've seen him speak several times after he was brought up on false ethic violation charges, which he was later fully acquitted of - 8 years later! But, man, what a horrible ordeal. He spent almost all of his money to defend himself. Same thing with Newt Gingrich and the witch hunt against Sarah Palin.
He talks about how God and people of faith brought him through that dark time. You can tell a change has taken place in his life. He really believes that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian values and I think many agree with that.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..."
The Founding Fathers acknowledged that God was the source of our rights.
That is superb thinking and writing. Only if the strong "majority" had these strong feelings toward God, could it have been written in such a way.
God wrote the 10 commandments. God did not write the US Constitution or BOR. It's arrogant to say He did. Now, did several of the founding fathers use their belief in God and knowledge of the Bible in drafting the documents? Sure. Their words say such. But I don't believe God was as interested in a man-made government as is trying to be said here.
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