Amendment I

[Roger]

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.

With the Christmas season just passing by and the Dover School District court decision I thought this would be a good subject to talk about.

Judge rules against ‘intelligent design’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10545387/

“HARRISBURG, Pa. - In one of the biggest courtroom clashes between faith and evolution since the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, a federal judge barred a Pennsylvania public school district Tuesday from teaching “intelligent design” in biology class, saying the concept is creationism in disguise.”

What’s wrong with the above? First, what religion does the Dover school establish? None, only a different view of the fairy tale called evolution. Evolution is the fairy tale that billion and trillions of years ago we crawled out of a mud puddle then turned into apes or monkeys or some other nonsense then teach the children this religion of humanism as science when in fact these bastards don’t know a whole lot about civilization more than 2000 years ago. They can’t explain Stonehenge or the great pyramids that are all over the world but they claim to know about things that happened billions of years ago. Horseshit! Second, even if intelligence design was a religion this government isn’t establishing it and is prohibiting the locals from doing so thus they are prohibiting it. Nowhere in the Constitution gives the power to federal government to control local schools or any form of education, period!

During the 1800’s and even during the early to mid 1900’s some schools only had and could afford the King James Bible and that’s what they taught with. In the 1950’s we were the smartest people in the world while today we are the dumbest because we were dumbed down and they took God and Christ out of the schools.

Pro 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

We now live in a nation of fools and heathens because this evil federal government has stomped God and Christ out of our lives. If Sally or Joe want to talk about Christ during their Senior Commencement not only are they prohibited by the government to excerise their religion but are prohibited of their free speech as well.

I remember when I went to school the 10 Commandments were on display for all to see. The children never minded them and what religion was established by doing so? Judaism or Christianity? None, however; the federal government created and established the religions respecting Atheism and Secular Humanism since the 1960’s instead of letting the locals control the education of their children not the federal government’s children.

The entire thing stinks not to mention the freedom to assemble. Do you have a right to peaceably assemble? Not without a permit you don’t. Try it without a permit then you’ll be pepper sprayed, beaten, and then thrown into jail.

Redress of grievances? Not a chance with the corrupt courts and you’ve been brainwashed over the years that you can’t fight city hall.

Then you have the modern church and religions that take the 501C3 (Mark and Image of the Beast) tax except status which they were to begin with then tell them not to talk about politics or they’ll lose their tax free status which is a gross infringement on the 1St Amendment.

I’ll let you in on what the prohibition of establishment of a religion means. People left the old world Europe to get away from a controlled and brutal church like the Vatican and mostly the Church of England where the government set it up as the only Church and outlawed any other. Now, today; we are living under the same kind of tyranny because the government has established secular humanism, atheism, and evolution as their religion and to hell with the rest of us. Not to mention taking over all of education which they are not empowered to do so Constitutionally.

The First Amendment of The Bill OF Rights is dead. Wake up or Waco!

 

[Roger]

This is what the "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" means:

United States Congress (January 19, 1853), as part of a Congressional investigation, records the report of Mr. Badger of the Senate Judiciary Committee:

The [First Amendment] clause speaks of "an establishment of religion." What is meant by that expression? It referred, without doubt, to that establishment which existed in the mother-country, and its meaning is to be ascertained by ascertaining what that establishment was. It was the connection, with the state, of a particular religious society, by its endowment at the public expense, in exclusion of, or in preference to, any other, by giving to its members exclusive political rights, and by compelling the attendance of those who rejected its communion upon its worship or religious observances. These three particulars constituted that union of Church and State of which our ancestors were so justly jealous and against which they so wisely and carefully provided....

If Congress has passed, or should pass, any law which, fairly construed, has in any degree introduced, or should attempt to introduce, in favor of any church, or ecclesiastical association, or system of religious faith, all or any one of these obnoxious particulars, - endowment at the public expense, peculiar privileges to its members, or disadvantages or penalties upon those who should reject its doctrines or belong to other communions, - such law would be a "law respecting an establishment of religion," and, therefore, in violation of the Constitution. But no law yet passed by Congress is justly liable to such an objection.... We have chaplains in the army and navy, and in Congress; but these are officers chosen with the freest and widest range of selection, - the law making no distinction whatever between any of the religions, Churches, or professions of faith known to the world. Of these, none by law is excluded, none has any priority of legal right. True, selections, in point of fact, are always made from some one of the denominations into which Christians are distributed; but that is not in consequence of any legal right or privilege, but by the voluntary choice of those who have the power of appointment.

This results from the fact that we are a Christian people, - from the fact that almost our entire population belongs to or sympathize with some one of the Christian denominations which compose the Christian world. And Christians will of course select, for the performance of religious services, one who professes the faith of Christ. This, however, it should be carefully noted, is not by virtue of provision, but voluntary choice. We are Christians, not because the law demands it, not to gain exclusive benefits or to avoid legal disabilities, but from choice and education; and in a land thus universally Christian, what is to be expected, what desired, but that we shall pay a due regard to Christianity, and have a reasonable respect for its ministers and religious solemnities?...
How comes it that Sunday, the Christian Sabbath, is recognized and respected by all the departments of Government? In the law, Sunday is a "dies non;" it cannot be used for the service of legal process, the returns of writs, or other judicial purposes. The executive departments, the public establishments, are all closed on Sundays; on that day neither House of Congress sits....

Here is a recognition by law, and by universal usage, not only of a Sabbath, but of the Christian Sabbath, in exclusion of the Jewish or Mohammedan Sabbath. Why, then, do the petitioners exclaim against this invasion of their religious rights? Why do they not assert that a national Sabbath, no less than a national Church, is an establishment of religion?...The recognition of the Christian Sabbath is complete and perfect. The officers who receive salaries, or per-diem compensation, are discharged from duty on this day, because it is the Christian Sabbath, and yet suffer no loss or diminution of pay on that account....

They intended, by this Amendment, to prohibit "an establishment of religion" such as the English Church presented, or any thing like it. But they had no fear or jealousy of religion itself, nor did they wish to see us an irreligious people; they did not intend to prohibit a just expression of religious devotion by the legislators or the nation, even in their public character as legislators; they did not intend to send our armies and navies forth to do battle for their country without any national recognition of that God on whom success or failure depends; they did not intend to spread over all the public authorities and the whole public action of the nation the dead and revolting spectacle of atheistical apathy. Not so had the battles of the Revolution been fought and the deliberations of the Revolutionary Congress been conducted. On the contrary, all had been done with a continual appeal to the Supreme Ruler of the World, and an habitual reliance upon His protection of the righteous cause which they commended to His care.