Nice post.
I'd comment, but I'm so disgusted at what passes for politics in the land of my
birth these days that I dare not for fear of offending someone. Instead, here's
my *positive* suggestion for how to "fix" America and make it whole again.
First, trash the Constitution and the current electoral system and go out and
hire some fuckin' professionals instead of all these amateurs. Go to Iceland --
a country that managed to create leaders who actually stood up to the Banksters
and the 1% and made their country economically sound again -- and hire these
people who've actually DONE THAT as consultants, for a four-year contract. Pay
them handsomely -- nay, extravagantly, so there is no fear of them trying to
supplement their income through graft -- and just let them do their thing.
Throw out the current Executive branch and Legislative branches of U.S.
government, and allow these seasoned professionals to actually RUN THINGS for a
four-year period. They get to do whatever they think is necessary to fix the
economic and social ills of America.
At the end of four years, offer the American people a choice of whether they'd
prefer to go back to the old system, or continue on with professionals running
things.
From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Another X-ian nut from Texas running for Pres?
My objection to Cruz is he is a scientific ignoramus, more so than most
politicians, which tend as a group to fall into this category. Also he is
presenting a view of the intent of the founding fathers of the United States
that is not in line with history. They were largely Episcopalians in name only,
following deistic ideas for the most part; Jefferson, in particular, was
sometimes called an atheist by his contemporaries.
'Whenever the Supreme Court makes a decision that in any way restricts the
intrusion of religion into the affairs of government, a flood of editorials,
articles, and letters protesting the ruling is sure to appear in the
newspapers. Many protesters decry these decisions on the grounds that they
conflict with the wishes and intents of the "founding fathers".'
'Such a view of American history is completely contrary to known facts. The
primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not
Bible-believing Christians; they were deists. Deism was a philosophical belief
that was widely accepted by the colonial intelligentsia at the time of the
American Revolution. Its major tenets included belief in human reason as a
reliable means of solving social and political problems and belief in a supreme
deity who created the universe to operate solely by natural laws. The supreme
God of the Deists removed himself entirely from the universe after creating it.
They believed that he assumed no control over it, exerted no influence on
natural phenomena, and gave no supernatural revelation to man. A necessary
consequence of these beliefs was a rejection of many doctrines central to the
Christian religion. Deists did not believe in the virgin birth, divinity, or
resurrection of Jesus, the efficacy of prayer, the miracles of the Bible, or
even the divine inspiration of the Bible.'
'These beliefs were forcefully articulated by Thomas Paine in Age of Reason, a
book that so outraged his contemporaries that he died rejected and despised by
the nation that had once revered him as "the father of the American
Revolution." To this day, many mistakenly consider him an atheist, even though
he was an out spoken defender of the Deistic view of God. Other important
founding fathers who espoused Deism were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
Benjamin Franklin, Ethan Allen, James Madison, and James Monroe.'
'Fundamentalist Christians are currently working overtime to convince the
American public that the founding fathers intended to establish this country on
"biblical principles," but history simply does not support their view.'
'The Reverend Bird Wilson, an Episcopal minister in Albany, New York, preached
a sermon in October 1831 in which he stated that "among all our presidents from
Washington downward [George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James
Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson], not one was a professor of
religion, at least not of more than Unitarianism". He went on to describe
Washington as a "great and good man" but "not a professor of religion." Wilson
said that he was "really a typical eighteenth century Deist, not a Christian,
in his religious outlook"'
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