Today’s Suggestions By Senator DeMint Should Be Followed
December 2, 2008 by elcap
Wendy McElroy famously said that No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another. One major reason is that often the person in power is an utter fool, like U.S. Senator Jim DeMint.
DeMint makes an ideal poster-child for a good chunk of what’s wrong with the Republican Party. In his 2004 bid for Congress, he attacked his opponent for pushing evolution in schools. (They’re teaching our children science! Noooo!!!)
The Senator wants to deport all the millions of brown people in our country that haven’t successfully jumped through all the absurd hoops necessary to obtain official government papers. He’d like to create a black market for abortions by banning them in every case, including rape. He opposes basic rights for homosexuals, such as the right to teach in pubic schools.
Today DeMint publicly criticized the new Capitol Visitors Center for not having enough religion. (Nevermind that it’s religion that is deluding him into adopting the morals of an ancient, ignorant people.) He released this statement today:
We must not censor historical references to God for the sake of political correctness. And we must truthfully represent the limited form of government the Constitution lays out so that our ‘government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.’
I couldn’t agree more — though he may be a bit confused about what the Constitution actually says, as he immediately quotes Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which was written several decades after the Constitution. But we digress.
Let’s take that first sentence of his: We must not censor historical references to God for the sake of political correctness. Absolutely! His next sentence discusses the need to truthfully represent the Constitution. Let’s do it!
When it comes to god, the Constitution is silent. It is completely godless! There’s absolutely zero mention of the divine, or baby Jesus, or anything related to the supernatural. In fact, our Constitution stands out because it is godless. Following DeMint’s orders, we need to truthfully represent the godless nature of our Constitution.
In order to fulfill DeMint’s wishes, we should make it widely known that the 85 essays of the Federalist Papers, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation as well as the U.S. Constitution — our nation’s founding documents — never once mention Christianity or Jesus.
We must not censor historical references to God. Definitely not. Let’s have a big plaque in the new Visitor’s Center that has a whole bunch of religious quotes from our nation’s founders. Here’s a few from some of the most influential, including the first four presidents — which means the General of the American Revolution and the authors of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution:
The United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. ~ George Washington
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. ~ John Adams
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize. ~ James Madison.
Lighthouses are more useful than churches. ~ Ben Franklin
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as ameans of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter. ~ Thomas Paine
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason. ~ Ben Franklin
Shake off all the fear of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear. ~ Thomas Jefferson
As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men. ~ Thomas Paine
Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Let’s hold DeMint to his word and erect a large structure that proudly and clearly displays these 10 quotes. In fact, everywhere the 10 Commandments are posted, let’s take them down and replace them with these 10 quotes.
(Who can even name the 10 Commandments anyway? Not the politicians that are forcing them down our throats. Here’s the timeless interview of Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, who wants the 10 Commandments everywhere but doesn’t know what they are.)
Remember, We must not censor historical references to God for the sake of political correctness.
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Well written