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To: sandintoes who wrote (500830)	11/30/2003 12:17:05 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

REVIEW & OUTLOOK Washington's Commandments The capital is rife with religious symbols. Shh! Don't tell the ACLU! Sunday, November 30, 2003 12:01 a.m. EST When this nation's citizens sat down Thursda for their Thanksgiving turkey, most began their meal with another traditional American custom: grace. These days grace increasingly is held to be one of those things that should remain purely private. But from the Mayflower Compact through George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, public acknowledgment of Providence as the source of both our law and our blessings has long been a prominent feature of American civic life too. That's easy to lose sight of amid the turmoil over the recent removal Judge Roy Moore's Ten Commandments display from the Alabama Supreme Court or the seasonal wrangling over how just how many snowmen it takes for a crèche on public property to pass legal muster. But when Human Events intern Carrie Devorah took her camera around the nation's capital, she found that our federal buildings and monuments are filled with religious imagery. The result is a striking photo essay called "God in the Temples of Government," available at the conservative weekly's Web site (HumanEventsOnline.com). Not surprisingly, the Ten Commandments and Moses--the law and the lawgiver--feature prominently. Start with the large seal of the Commandments on the floor of the National Archives. Then move to the bronze statue of Moses in the Library of Congress. And let's not forget the Supreme Court, which features Moses both at the center on the East Portico as well as on a frieze inside the courtroom (less well known is that the prophet Mohammed appears on another frieze). Miss Devorah also captures the stained glass window of a kneeling George Washington, hands clasped as he recites the King James version of the 16th Psalm. She includes too a quotation from Lord Tennyson hanging in the Library of Congress rotunda: "One God. One Law. One Element. And One Far-Off Divine Event To Which The Whole Creation Moves." We could add the carving of the Ten Commandments on the wooden doors to the Supreme Court. The marble relief of the face of Moses that faces directly opposite the Speaker's chair in the House of Representatives. Or the depiction in the Capitol rotunda of the sister ship of the Mayflower, the Speedwell, where the Bible is open on the chaplain's lap and the Pilgrim motto, "In God We Trust, God With Us," plainly visible on the ship sails. Miss Devorah's photos only scratch the surface of America's religious heritage. But they help remind us of the link between the faith of our forefathers and the freedoms that all Americans--believers and nonbelievers--give thanks for today. opinionjournal.com

To: sandintoes who wrote (500830)	11/30/2003 1:31:20 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It is outrageous when the liberal democraps have to go back to a man who died in 1973 to quote as a "leader" of the conservative movement... Jeezus, how many parts of a sentence can you get totally wrong? Neither I nor the authors of the several articles I've posted are affiliated with the Democratic Party, TTBOMK. I most certainly am not a Democrat. Nor am I particularly liberal. I'm registered Independent, and my last party affiliation was the Green Party in California a decade ago. I prefer to be a "free thinker", though I loathe those who lie about their love of "free markets". If you catch my driftnet. *** Re: quote as a "leader" -- Absolutely no one said the Leo Strauss was the "leader" of anything. The articles clearly state that he was the "spiritual" and "intellectual" father of the neo-conservative movement. *** Re: the conservative movement -- You are hopelessly shallow in your comprehension of the term conservative. What Strauss was the inspiration for is the "NEO-CONSERVATIVE sect". These people have nothing whatsoever to do with the "conservative movement". Strauss is the progenitor of a radical, extremist abberation in totalitarian elitism which is absolutely anathema to real conservatives. The Neo-cons are a variety of fascism, incorporating Likudnik Zionism, messianic end-of-days Christian insanity and megalomaniacal imperialism, ruthless greed and rapacious disregard for the environment. Neo-cons are completely anathema to true conservatives. *** Re: Do you still listen to Stalin? No, how about you? Still hearing those voices? *** "It doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes." -- Variously ascribed to Iosif Dzugashvili and Walter O'Dell, CEO of the Diebold Corporation (the electronic voting fraud people) and Bush/Cheney 1984 "Pioneer" (i.e. major league bribery and shakedown artist).