tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post7563117812259564741..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Forever PrudenceStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-86791636269392190612014-04-25T15:44:27.016-07:002014-04-25T15:44:27.016-07:00Unfortunately, I see the first couple almost every...Unfortunately, I see the first couple almost every day. They come down to Florida from states like New York and the other "blue" states to get away from the conditions that are part and parcel of living in them. One of the first things they do is start trying to create the conditions they ran away from. <br />I am not sure whether it is a mental disorder or a desire to cause others to be as unhappy as they seem to be. Please I beg of you go back as quickly as you can and leave us the Hell alone. Visit and enjoy all that we have to offer. We are happy to show you a good time. I know it does seem like a really nice place to live and will stay that way if people like the first couple go back to Diblasios, et al of the world.<br /><br />I believe the First Amendment states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, " and not freedom from religion. There is NO "separation of church and state" in the Constitution for anything other that Congress. It was the Supreme Court which, over the years, slowly undermined both the horizontal and vertical checks and balances that allowed the states and its citizens to do what they wanted to in this area. <br />Much of the interpretation now accepted came from a Jefferson letter in response to church leaders. It was mainly religious people in New England who wanted the government to stay out of religion and not the other way around. Jefferson's response was to reassure them. Jefferson was rather ecumenical and was the first President to make it possible to hold religious gatherings in government buildings and did attend some of them. Jefferson was almost always this side of penniless because he spent so much money buying bibles to distribute. Jefferson was an active member of Virginia Bible Society.<br />Jefferson was not a secularist or a Deist. As much as Supreme Courts have tried to make him the Father of the First Amendment Jefferson "was in Europe when the Constitution was planned and never saw it til after it was established.<br />"The Jefferson Bibles were written to relate the New Testament to the Native American culture. “The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth being Extracted from the Account of His Life and Doctrines Given by Mathew, Mark, Luke and John; Being an Abridgement of the New Testament for use of the Indians, Unembarrassed [Uncomplicated] with Matters of Fact or faith beyond the Level of their Comprehension” 1804. I have include the whole title here because too many historians leave it out and it denotes the purposes Jefferson had for it. In 1820 Jefferson titled the second book “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.”<br />A good book to read about Jefferson is "The Jefferson Lies" by David Barton. Extremely well sourced.<br />Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-19181798238680769762014-04-25T11:59:15.766-07:002014-04-25T11:59:15.766-07:00Nice piece. I've reblogged it here:
http://ex-...Nice piece. I've reblogged it here:<br /><a href="http://ex-army.blogspot.com/2014/04/dilemma-sensible-behavior-versus.html" rel="nofollow">http://ex-army.blogspot.com/2014/04/dilemma-sensible-behavior-versus.html</a><br />Baloohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08245765878554696634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-20844074164515052142014-04-25T06:13:33.823-07:002014-04-25T06:13:33.823-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-55787422878574239032014-04-24T23:03:05.577-07:002014-04-24T23:03:05.577-07:00My opinion: do not teach your child lying. Say &qu...My opinion: do not teach your child lying. Say "we dont pray, because we, in our family, dont believe in God". Most people dont do something like this because of afraid of others. This same paradox like in every non democratic countries. Nobody wants, but everybody do because everyone is afraid to be the first, who say no.Jockernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-19752678912467100262014-04-24T15:12:02.638-07:002014-04-24T15:12:02.638-07:00Pray with everybody, and always with suit. Pray with everybody, and always with suit. Jockernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9704675316802067412014-04-24T12:42:10.820-07:002014-04-24T12:42:10.820-07:00Here's a timely snip from a blog post:
"...Here's a timely snip from a blog post:<br /><br />"Two Marxist theorists, Antonio Gramsci of Italy and Georg Lukacs of Hungary, concluded that the Christianized West was the obstacle standing in the way of a communist new world order. Gramsci said that Christianity had corrupted the working class and the West would have to be de- Christianized by a “long march through the culture” – starting with the traditional family and completely engulfing churches, schools, media, entertainment, civic organizations, literature, science, and the presentation (and revision) of history.<br /><br />In 1919, Georg Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun regime in Hungary. He immediately set plans in motion to de-Christianize Hungary, by undermining firstly Christian sexual ethics among children, then the hated patriarchal family and the Church. He launched sex lectures in the schools and graphically instructed youth in free love (promiscuity) and sexual intercourse while simultaneously encouraging them to deride and reject Christian moral ethics, monogamy, and parental and church authority."<br /><br />http://ex-army.blogspot.ca/2014/04/defining-cultural-marxism.html<br /><br />Some things never change. Only the pretext shifts, according to circumstances.<br /><br />Lastangonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-73773882649239586322014-04-24T11:38:01.114-07:002014-04-24T11:38:01.114-07:00Lemme try answering their missive:
"My husba...Lemme try answering their missive:<br /><br />"My husband and I think the teacher should have told the students why she shouldn’t have led them in prayer."<br /><br />That's advocacy and activism -- just the sort of thing that's in the air in a "liberal Northeastern town". <br /><br />"He wants to press this issue..."<br /><br />Of course he does. Liberals aren't happy unless they're telling other people how to live.<br /><br />"Our child reported the praying stopped immediately..."<br /><br />That never would have happened if if the objectionable practice was a liberal one, happening in a Northeastern town. If some parent up there had objected to, say, their 8-year-old daughter being taught to put a condom on a banana, or learning what oral sex is, the school would have gone on its merry way foisting its ideology on all the kids. Pushing the point might earn the parents a visit from Child Protective Services.<br /><br />"We did tell a few acquaintances about this..." <br /><br />Of course you told acquaintances. You are trying to spread the word in support of your own view. Up north, that would work. Everyone there thinks the same things you do.<br /><br />"...and they said 'people like us' were ruining the community of faith."<br /> <br />Your acquaintances certainly have your number. How does it feel to be the one on the outside? You and hubby aren't on the college campus anymore, where your liberal activism is the only protected speech and dissenters from your progressivist orthodoxy are socially ostracized while being tarred as some variety of racist and hater. Quite the shock, eh?<br /><br />"...I feel as long as we let our child know what’s right and wrong, we should let this go and accept this is part of where we live."<br /><br />Good for you. You wrote your letter, you won your point. Now STFU.<br /><br />Lastangonoreply@blogger.com