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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (13655)	5/17/2001 1:12:41 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm not hung up on what faith people choose to follow. I AM hung up on recognizing that religious faith was deeply intertwined into the fabric of our founding documents, and that to try to separate it out does violence to the core principles on which our country was founded. What principles? That we asserted the right to break away from England and take "the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitled (us)." Not that atheism entitled us, not that the Laws of Nature alone entitled us, but that the laws of Nature's God entitled us. The unalienable rights we asserted were not inherent in us as persons, independent of God, but were those with which we were "endowed by our Creator," and that governments were created "to secure THESE rights," not just any rights. And, in the end, we appealed to the Supreme Judge of the world and stated our "firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence." We were created as a nation relying on rights from God and relying on the protection of God. While I don't shre Ashcroft's religious beliefs, and would probably be uncomfortable myself in his meetings, I find nothing objectionable in an official of the government so created seeking, as our founders did, the guidance and assistance of God in carrying out the performance of his duties in service of the country so created.