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Palin: Founders meant to base law on Bible and Ten Commandments
In an interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, Sarah Palin again demonstrated her contempt for American history, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, openly lying that the Founders wanted law based on the Bible and that the evidence is in those documents. It isn’t.
While discussing the National Day of Prayer with O’Reilly, Palin insisted that the event was appropriate . . . because our Founders wanted to promote “Judeo-Christian values“:
Nobody has to believe me, you can just go to our Founding Fathers’ early documents, and see how they crafted a Declaration of Independence and a Constitution that allow that Judeo-Christian belief to be the foundation of our laws, and our Constitution of course essentially acknowledging that our unalienable rights don’t come from man, they come from God. So the document is set up to protect us from a government that would ever infringe upon our right to have freedom of religion and to be able to express our faith freely.
Has Palin ever read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?
The Constitution makes no reference to “unalienable rights” from a Creator. The Declaration of Independence does lead off with the reference to men being “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
It does not reference the Judeo-Christian God at all; rather, it refers to “nature’s God” — that is, the god of the Deist:
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
The bulk of the Declaration of Independence is an attack on the King’s actions or inactions. READ IT. HERE.
Palin reiterates her lies for Jesus:
Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant– they’re quite clear– that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the Ten Commandments, it’s quite simple.
Palin in action, with support from O’Reilly, who agrees with all of her blatant lies about the Constitution and Declaration of Independence:
O’Reilly also insists that the Constitution is based on “what’s right and wrong, and what’s right and wrong is based on the Ten Commandments”. That would explain why the Sabbath isn’t enshrined in law, and why it’s permitted to worship gods other than the Christian god . . . two of the Ten Commandments. In fact, the only references to religion in the Constitution are prescriptive, demanding that the government NOT establish a state religion or interfere in the free expression of religion.
Article VI: “. . . no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ”
READ THE CONSTITUTION. CLICK HERE.
Just want the Bill of Rights? HERE YOU GO!
Palin, O’Reilly, and their anti-American ilk are counting on Americans not to know what the Constitution says. They intend to keep lying for Jesus, saying that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. We, as Americans, must know our founding documents and be able to call them out at every turn. Every time they lie, we must respond.
Have you read the documents yet? Don’t forget to check out the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s new video on the subject!
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"So the document is set up to protect us from a government that would ever infringe upon our right to have freedom of religion and to be able to express our faith freely."
Correct, even if that faith happens to NOT be Judeo-Christian
"O’Reilly also insists that the Constitution is based on “what’s right and wrong, and what’s right and wrong is based on the Ten Commandments"
No, the Ten Commandments are based on what is "right and wrong" let's not put the cart before the horse.
I wouldn’t even agree with that, friend . . . “Thou shalt have no gods before me”? “Thou shalt remember the Sabbath, and keep it holy”? How are these “right and wrong”?
how do we know rape is wrong, then? and torture? and child abuse? none of these things is in the 10 commandments. the first 4 things on that list are all about god being a jealous baby. if you really think you can learn morality from the 10 commandments, i'd like to know why you're not a child-abusing, torturing rapist. whatever your answer to that question is, THAT'S where morality comes from.
I'd like to know why Christians are performing any work on Sundays. Keeping the Sabbath holy involves doing NO work — not cooking, not shopping, not doing the dishes — and also not compelling nonbelievers to work. No going out to brunch after church.
Yet I don't hear Christians clamoring to close Wal-Mart on Sundays. Do you?
And there you have it, from a leading Constitutional scholar. It's not that the Founders–at least the brains behind the operation–were sick and tired of being mishandled by religion. Oh, no! What they REALLY meant was that the Constitution should underscore the Bible. See how wrong we can be?
i'm not going to waste my breath and patience wieh you blind idiots for followjng palin and o'really no misspelling here you people insist that people live by your rules i think you all well be surprised if god does exist spewing hate like that you can;t pick and choose who's right or wrong not your job fool
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anyone who denies our constitution and counrty were founded on Christian-Judeo principals is just a godless person. The markings are etched in stone on many historical monuments all over America. Ben Franklin fell to his knees in religious awe after he discovered electricity and quoted that it inspired him in helping develope the constitution. Dont believe everything you read! Pull up historical quotes and figure it out for yourself! http://www.eadshome.com/QuotesoftheFounders.htm
Why not read the documents themselves, Linn? There are links provided to the Constitution and to the Bill of Rights in the article.
If the Founders wanted to reference the Jewish God in the Constitution, why didn't they?
Take your own advice–don't believe everything you read. The website you posted is obviously biased. Remember that the Founding Fathers were human, not god, and were capable of mistakes. I do not believe this country was founded on religion, but even if it had been I would be against it. The Founding Fathers are not sacred.
This country was founded on philosophical principals that are present in some interpretations (the Founding Father's Enlightenment-inspired interpretations) of Christianity, but moreso in Greek philosophy, the French Revolution, and John Locke. The Founding Fathers expressed their beliefs in a MIXTURE of religion and philosophy, as you will see if you study this issue further.
The thing is what can be passed off easily as "Christian" on websites with agendas would not be acceptable to most denominations today. Most of the Founding Fathers were Deist or Unitarian–sects highly informed by non-religious philosophy–that are not promoted at all by orthodox denominations.
Here are the personal religious views of the seven Founding Fathers:
Benjamin Franklin was a Deist–he believed that God existed but could be found through nature and reason. He was raised Puritan but rarely attended services. He did not believe Jesus was divine. He supported organized religion because it kept man in check, not because he agreed with the dogma. He supported religion, but it was ALL religion, religious FREEDOM, like the Constitution says. He did not support one religion over another. I doubt you can call him Christian at all if he didn't believe in Jesus. That's kind of in the name, isn't it?
I also urge you to take a look at good old Ben's personal life. He had a lot of fun as ambassador to France. A lot of women.
John Adams was Unitarian. Unitarians believe no path is better than another, that there is no Hell or sin. He also did not believe in the divinity of Jesus, or the trinity. He called himself a Christian, and his quotes, cherrypicked like on that biased website, might make him seem like he was a good old evangelical, but no. That's how he thought of himself, but he rejected dogma, Jesus's divinity, and a score of other tenents of "true" Christianity.
George Washington was a member of the Anglican Church but in practice was a Deist/Stoic. He believed in a God but did not believe in Jesus or the truth of the Bible.
John Jay is one you've got on your side, I suppose. He was Anglican, supported Christian rulers, and wanted to pass a law prohibiting Catholics from holding office. Great guy, there.
James Madison, the "father of the Constitution", championed for religious freedom and helped write the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Some quotes from that document:
"that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry" (so he would oppose the ban on homosexual marraige), and this gem: "Be it enacted by General Assembly that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of Religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities."
Alexander Hamilton waffled his entire life. He was raised Presbyterian but renounced it later, and even declared that democracy and Christianity were incompatible. Later in his life, shortly before his death, he became religious again.
And Thomas Jefferson. My favorite. He was a Unitarian and Deist, interested in religion his whole life but definitely not someone most churches would admire these days. He committed blasphemy. He rewrote the Gospels and removed all supernatural elements, leaving it just a book of wise quotes by a mortal Jewish man from long ago. He called it the Jefferson Bible. He also supported separation of church and state, wrote the Viriginia Statute for Religious Freedom quoted above, and said this: " "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
This country was founded on the rights, dignity, and free choice of man. Some of the Founders saw these qualities reflected in THEIR interpretations (not the majority in contemporary society) of Christianity. This does not mean they founded the country on religion or meant for it to be a "Christian nation". Actually their own words speak to the contrary.
You disbelievers disgust me. Go to John Adams and read and learn. You will find him to be the key founder of the constitution,and you will know why God is marked in stone on the walls of the supreme court. You will also see how many times God is mentioned in our preamble and our constitution.You will fine the reason why we swear on the bible in a court room or why our elected officials place their hand on a bible when taking their oath.It doesn`t make any difference what law was past in the constitution, they all go back and connect to the ten commandments of God. Your an idiot if you think differently.
God is not referenced at all in the Constitution.
Maybe you should try reading it before telling people what it says.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/…
I realize that actual facts could disrupt your misguided beliefs, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.
The god of John Adams, and your god, are not the same god. I have a collection of his writings, and Adams would not be popular if his feelings about christianity were more widely known. And there is nothing in the Constitution that even remotely resembles the "ten commandments". We have had a Quaker President that would not swear on a bible, only make an affirmation. That is the way most courts do it now. It is not nice to call someone an idiot that is better researched than yourself. Please read something besides propaganda
Gartano
Please read Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli of 1797, the one that was read aloud before Congress (when they used to do that), and was passed Unanimously and signed into LAW by John Adams and please explain to us what the founders meant by "NOT IN ANY SENSE"
And, Was murder ok before the 10 commandments?
"You will also see how many times God is mentioned in our preamble and our constitution"
Yes ZERO!!!
"You will fine the reason why we swear on the bible in a court room or why our elected officials place their hand on a bible when taking their oath."
That is not a law. One does not need the bible to take an oath in our country.
" Your an idiot if you think differently."
Well then you must be an idiot.