Sunday, October 31, 2010

Christianity is in the Constitution, say Christians

Ancient Photo of Christ Found On Back of U. S. Constitution: "George Mason, actually proposed the following wording for the First Amendment, which demonstrates the context of their wording:

[A]ll men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others (as quoted in Rowland, 1892, 1:244, emp. added).

By “prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” the Framers intended to convey that the federal government was not to interfere with the free and public practice of the Christian religion—the very thing that the courts have been doing since the 1960s."


Okay. Let's try to think why Mason's words weren't, in fact, used in the final, actual Constitution.

Yeah, me too. Mason's rule would, and should, apply to any sect or society of any religious nature; so the qualifier was unnecessary and ill-advised - and revealing of finite boundaries of wisdom.

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