What is your Take on Religion and Politics?

[DvdGStwrt]

http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/column.php?id=736 Makes for an interesting read.

Two Questions:

1. What is your personal views on Religion, Party Politics and Government?

2. If you take the time to read the Column, how does you feel about it?

David

[magistre]

http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/column.php?id=736 Makes for an interesting read.

Two Questions:

1. What is your personal views on Religion, Party Politics and Government?

2. If you take the time to read the Column, how does you feel about it?

David

1. I could never be so pedestrian or antiethical as to be a Christian-I'm still trying to find out exactly what Jesus really did say. Party politics is opium for the people to keep them from really becoming involved in governing themselves. Its time for the third continental congress! :p

[April15]

It is way over due.

[thomaspainerevisited]

The question of a having a new Continental Congress is interesting. Yet, I don't think that "WE THE PEOPLE" would have any voice. Right now, WE THE PEOPLE are pretty apathetic to the demands of participatory government. At least during the original Constitutional Convention you had Shay's Rebellion as impetus and threatening shadow to the genteel. If the building was locked; the genteel didn't know if what was being said was safe, so there was a worry that "IRE" may have been easily ignited by an overstepping movement. After all, the men were doing what they were doing by claiming to expand freedom against government tyranny. Nothing breeds hatred more then hypocrisy. Today we have management, that is, argument over who is the best leader to run the farm. OH, CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK goes us chickens. Moreover, today, truth is owned (mediated and manipulated) by the media. Ill truths are swept under the rug in nano-seconds. So, do you really want another Constitutional Convention? I want something dramatic that threatens our freedoms to be seen and felt, that is, before we undertake a new convention, that is, so that WE THE PEOPLE don't sign away everything (ourselves) on the dotted (chalk outline) line.

By the way, the "OBLIGATIONS OF CONTRACT CLAUSE" which forbids states and localities from forestalling foreclosures was put into the Constitution after the debate. Today, I'd fear racking for government criticism might come back if we held another convention.

Thomas Paine Revisited