tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post5981246717546817682..comments2023-08-10T14:58:46.329+07:00Comments on Authority!: In God They LustTimothy J Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10634355920003282809noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-49015348604546839302011-11-07T04:33:25.798+07:002011-11-07T04:33:25.798+07:00You are right that "E Plurbis Unum" fits...You are right that "E Plurbis Unum" fits better with "Novus Ordo Seclorum". But "In God We Trust" fits better with "Annuit Coeptis".<br /><br />An important implication of "In God We Trust" is that we trust no one less. "confidence in rulers is everywhere the parent of despotism"<br /><br />greg<br />http://liberty4us.us/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-60452509453912473032011-11-06T22:41:22.241+07:002011-11-06T22:41:22.241+07:00The founders were pretty cagey, I think.
Few of t...The founders were pretty cagey, I think.<br /><br />Few of them would have answered to anything resembling modern American evangelical Christianity (which didn't really exist until around the end of the 19th century).<br /><br />Most of them were <em>formally</em> Christian, but few seemed particularly devout, and a number of them were obviously taken with the unitarian, deist and freemason glosses on religion, which was not uncommon at that time among the learned.<br /><br />Some of them did obviously consider religion as such a necessary civilizing force, and the others, I think, just realized they couldn't carry out a political revolution and a religious one at the same time and that if they tried they'd lose on both fronts.Thomas L. Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-10246539535765188592011-11-04T08:12:26.825+07:002011-11-04T08:12:26.825+07:00I stand corrected as you point out that “Nature’s ...I stand corrected as you point out that “Nature’s God” – a reference to Jefferson’s Deist philosophy -- does appear in the Declaration. The word “creator” also appears which many Christians insist is a reference to their God. The word “Lord” is referenced in the Constitution as you point out in the context of affixing the date to the document, a common formality template of the time.Timothy J Taylorhttp://authoritycon.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-31912532936043542172011-11-03T22:13:33.070+07:002011-11-03T22:13:33.070+07:00While your general point is sound, your claim that...While your general point is sound, your claim that neither the Declaration nor the Constitution mention God is demonstrably false.<br /><br />The Declaration of Independence specifically credits "Nature's God" with entitling America to "its station" and was issued "with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence."<br /><br />The Constitution was "done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven."Thomas L. Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.com