Ken Blackwell's Christian Nation - Christian "Founding Principles"

http://www.republicaffair.com/ "The adulterous connection of church and state, wherever it had taken place, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, had so effectually prohibited, by pains and penalties, every discussion upon established creeds, and upon first principles of religion, that until the system of government should be changed, those subjects could not be brought fairly and openly before the world." _Thomas Paine: Age of Reason; Part One, Chapter One

The "Founding Principles" of Christian Slave Morality

1. Total Depravity of Man

2. Do Not Judge

3. Love Your Enemy

4. Obey and Respect Authority (Use Abraham and Christ as the models)

The "Founding Principles" of Secular Enlightenment Morality

1. Natural Goodness and Ability of Human Beings

2. Make Rational Judgments, to the Best of One's Ability, Based upon the Known Facts

3. Resists and Repel All Threats to Human Rights, Liberty, and Well-being

4. Continually Question People and Institutions Who Hold Power (Use Thomas Paine and Jefferson as the models)


"The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent -- that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgment. The offices of the Government are open alike to all. No tithes are levied to support an established Hierarchy, nor is the fallible judgment of man set up as the sure and infallible creed of faith. The Mohammedan, if he will to come among us would have the privilege guaranteed to him by the constitution to worship according to the Koran; and the East Indian might erect a shrine to Brahma, if it so pleased him. Such is the spirit of toleration inculcated by our political Institutions." -President John Tyler to Joseph Simpson, 1843

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The Christian Principal is that your rights are given to you by God. Is that enough?