Talk about birth of a Nation!
Earlier this month I was in DC listening to CSPAN radio. While driving to the airport they were covering the “Confronting the Judicial War on Faith” conference. This was a gathering republican law-makers that felt that judges should be impeached for make unpopular (to them) rulings.
Lawyer-author Edwin Vieira said Justice Kennedy’s philosophy “upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law.” Washington Post, April 9, 2005
Vieira continued by saying his “bottom line” for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. “He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: ‘no man, no problem,’” Vieira said. Washington Post, April 9, 2005
The full Stalin quote, for those who don't recognize it, is “Death solves all problems: no man, no problem.”
What kind of Culture of Life is it to quote the biggest mass murderer of the 20th century as justification for getting rid of a Supreme Court judge?
What did Supreme Court Justice Kennedy do? He ruled that executing minors was unconstitutional. One of the sources he sited was the International Bill of Human Rights. The nerve thinking that we the good old USA should actually protect human rights at home instead of just in Iraq.
However, this is not what amazed me. What amazed me was the conversion on the Ten Commandments. A Jewish political leader stood up and stated his support for making it mandatory to have the Ten Commandments in every court house. This was one of the main topics of the conference. What amazed me was that he did not realize when they talk about the first Commandment*, the god the right-wing is talking about is not his god!
* "I am The Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me."
Other things that were discussed included a movement to end contested divorces. Yes, this means if you husband beats you and wants to keep beating you, unless he sleeps with another woman, you have to stay.
Wow… this is why horror movies do not scare me anymore.
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Wow. That gives me a cool idea.
For Halloween, I think we could do a U.S. Government Haunted House. Think about it!
Of course, we're scared by things that, I think, most of the country doesn't understand. Heck, half the time I do not understand. Must spend some time pouring through bills.
Posted by: Shannon | April 27, 2005 12:55 PM
It may come to pass, that if there is going be an antiChrist, it may very well be some manifestation of the religious wickedness we are seeing increasingly. I rather think these people would be the first to want to inflect the "No Man - No Problem" treatment on some mad carpenter who went around insulting religious leaders, flagrantly violated their laws, and told them they were evil. Jesus did not tell the religious etablishment of his time and place that they were full of shit. He did worse than that: "White-washed tombs full of filth and dead men's bones!".
The day of 9/11, when it was explained that the hijackers one and all thought they were going straight to heaven, I could not help but conclude that religion has the potential for utter horror and abomination. When people who profess Christianity actively wish suffering and unhapiness upon others, it should give them pause. It is our Christian duty to prevent evil whenever we can, but I think a lot of what we are seeing now goes beyond that to pure, raw malice.
Posted by: Josef | May 6, 2005 05:29 PM
Here! Here! Well spoken Josef (as always).
Posted by: SirJon | May 10, 2005 09:43 PM