Very few people know the historical and intellectual background of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. From Boyd D. Cathey at unz.com:
A headline in a news story caught my attention the other day. It reads: “Louisiana now requires the 10 Commandments to be displayed in classrooms. It’s not the only terrifying state law.” The column appears in The Independent, July 1, 2024, and is by one Gustaf Kilander.
Notice that the author uses the word “terrifying” to characterize the public display of one of, arguably, the bedrock documents that shaped the formation of the American nation and the thinking of its Framers. Indeed, to read the debates leading to the adoption of the Constitution is to plainly understand how deeply influenced the Framers were by not only the Ten Commandments, but by the weight of Christian and Western tradition. (See Elliott’s Debates, a compilation of the debates over the new Constitution).
A brief survey of the writings of such distinguished historians and researchers as Barry Alan Shain, Forrest McDonald, M. E. Bradford, and George W. Carey, plus a detailed reading of the commentaries and writings of those men who established the nation, give the lie to the claim that those men assembled in 1787 sought to outlaw individual state religious tests or establishments.
They did not.
Many of the original thirteen states had religious establishments and tests, including Massachusetts (Congregationalist), Virginia (Anglican/Episcopal), and North Carolina (requiring office holders to be Protestants, and after 1835 up until the War Between the States, only Christians). The US Constitution clearly acknowledged this, and only forbade the establishment of a “national” church. But even then, the Framers assumed that the new nation would reflect its Christian roots, going so far as providing for paid chaplains in the Northwest Territories at the same time they were formulating the Constitution.
A Gustav can GTFO if he doesn’t like it and Karl Marx pen pal Ape Lincoln can eet eggplant as well.
If you don’t like America then ports, air strips, highways are open,
Enough of this bending over for whiny minorities.
O/T-Ain’t nuthin’ but a party y’all!
It started at dusk and is just now slowing down with so much smoke it looks like fog/haze and smells like the firing range on a busy weekend…sounded like a firefight for a good hour as our slum village (s/) is right in the middle of five subdivision sectors.
So many mortars it looked like flak bursts at dusk.
We were here first and I live here that’s why.
(H/T-Jed Swayze)
America F’ Yeah!
Breaking from Big Snoop Dogg:
My Heat Goes BOOM (Instrumental Loop)