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Marysia @marysia_cc - Hildegard of Bingen (1098–17 September 1179)
It pleased the king to raise a feather from the ground and he commanded it to fly.The feather flew, not because of anything in itself but because the air bore it along. Thus am I a feather on the breath of God
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Megan Basham @megbasham - Video: Jonah, the “intellectual Nerf bat” here is your inability to draw a distinction between what the constitution protects regarding religious liberty and the worldview that INSPIRED that protection, which was explicitly Christian, as Charlie Kirk so ably demonstrated here.
The American Founding was the political fruit of a people formed by Scripture, church, and a Christian account of man, which includes that we are created equal, born fallen, accountable to God, and endowed with rights no king may revoke.
John Adams made the point EXPLICITLY when he told Jefferson that “the general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity,” and that those principles are “as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.” (Perhaps you have not read this?)
That is WHY the Declaration speaks of a Creator, of Nature’s God, and of rights that are unalienable rather than granted by Parliament.
A Christian worldview supplied the moral architecture that religious liberty is not something the government permits us and it also recognized that government itself is limited because it stands under the higher moral law of the Creator.
James Madison also illustrated why the founders protected religious liberty the Virginia Declaration of Rights when he wrote that “Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.”
They even knew such a constitution cannot survive a people who have abandoned the habits of Christianity. (Or what morality did you think Adams was referring to in his oft-quoted line, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”)
Washington said the same in his Farewell Address (“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports.”)
So I suggest a little more reading and that you try to think in distinctions between cause and effect.
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Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch - Megan, sorry for the delayed response. Just bothered to look. I think this response of yours is embarrassingly insipid. Sorry.