Recent content by pennmark

"Congress shall... " The pre-existing established religion still stands.

You're right. Turning the other cheek means not letting petty insults and small injuries spur us to violence. Jesus did not tell us to hold our necks out so someone could chop it off. (Pennmark thinks that because the USA is a Christian nation, this is why the USA does not blow to smithereens...

The Dutch were right, the Papuans were ethnically different. The USA pressured the Dutch to hand over West Papua to Indonesia because of concerns during the Cold War. Those concerns are moot now -- it's time for the Indonesians to get out of there.

Constitution doesn't say that. The First Amendment says: "Congress shall pass no laws respecting an establishment of religion".

Who exactly is Jesus Christ to the LDS church? The Jesus most Christians believe in is the son of Yahweh. The Jesus Mormons believe in is the son of ... Who?

God sometimes uses rebellion to punish the powerful for sins they have committed. Take the case of Israel rebelling against Solomon's son Rehoboam in 1 Kings 12:1-24. Solomon was guilty of allowing foriegn gods into Israel, so the LORD punished him by reducing his son's inheritance through a...

Itself. If a government does not believe in the legality of its own existence, it will reject the rule of law if it wants to preserve itself, because the lawful thing for it to do would be to abdicate. This would destroy the USA, because the USA's existence is dependent upon the rule of law.

The Constitution tells us that the United States of America became independent in the year 1776, because it was signed in the twelfth year of America's independence. This makes the Declaration of Independence constitutional. In the first sentence, the D of I tells us that the USA derives its...

The final line. It was signed in the year of the "Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth..."

The guns enforced the law, they did not make the law.

Of course its not a civil rights issue. How could it be? Homosexuality is a sin.

The guns enforced the law, they did not make the law.

The Constitution says the USA became independent in 1776.

The D of I was an act of Congress, signed into law by the President. It made the USA legally independent on July 4, 1776.

Genesis 11:1-8.