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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (585950)	6/28/2004 1:23:08 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

I assumed that 'the Way of the Warrior' was not exactly what you were trying to discuss... but rather the Japanese conflation of their Emperor as both 'god' and 'seat of government' as divine ruler... so that's what I was referring to. As far as "IMO having a president that believes in God is not a threat to our democracy." I don't see that as a 'threat to Democracy' either, per se. Only if the individual's religious beliefs are foisted on others by using the power of government. A Theocracy (religious government), I'm sure most of us would agree, is Hell on Earth. "Our constitution is based on laws that protect us all from radical ideas or movements." I don't know about that (as a matter of fact, the main writer of the document believed that we must have a 'revolution every generation or so', or we would lose our Democracy). I thought our founding documents (Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights) laid out the proposition that rights belong to the individual, that governments properly gain their right to rule from the consent of the people, and then deliniated the rights that government is to have... and DIVIDED government into three co-equal parts in an attempt to balance off the powers that government has, to prevent government from amassing more and more power over the people. That, of course, is a constant struggle, as governments (indeed, ANY bureaucracy) always try to further empower themselves --- at the expense of everyone else. Government has clearly been growing more and more powerful over the Centuries... at some point it may be fair to say that our founders greatest fears have been realized: that we have finally lost our Democracy and individual liberties.