Let's just boil it down to two groups for the sake of it now. I know it's far more complicated and intricate than this, but for the sake of this discussion we'll make it simple.
You've got people who believe in God and you have people who don't. The people that don't believe in God are called humanists, they're secular.
And they're the ones that want all the nativity scenes taken out of the town square and they want any reference to religion taken out of Christmas and all this even though it's a religious holiday, that's who they are. They don't believe in God.
They don't believe in God for their own reasons but I think part of it is fear. So you have people who believe in God and people that don't. You have people who look at their pet cat and say, "God made that," and they marvel. You look at humanists, secular humanists who look at their pet cat, and say, "mongrel." They may love the cat, but they don't care where it came from. They're not at all intrigued where it came from, and they're not dazzled. They look at the heavens and they just see specks of white. They do not see what is obviously some force way beyond our comprehension, that's able to assemble all this and put it together. They don't see it. They're threatened by it for whatever reason. Other people do. Other people live in constant wonderment at the creation of the universe and our little speck of it.
Now, the people who have the fear, the people who are secular, who don't think there's anything divine in anything, and there's a reason for that, too. If there's no God it means who's supreme? Human beings.
Human beings are supreme. Human beings set the rules, not some Bible, not some unseen force that says what's right and wrong. That's not for them, humans do this, humans decide, the humans decide. If they want to worship a tree as a God, they can do it without committing sin, and they won't be worried about it. So humans are the focal point of everything. That's where global warming comes from. We have the power to destroy the earth. We didn't create it. We couldn't create it. We couldn't cause global warming, but we couldn't stop global warming but to them we can cause it.
All of the things that religious people invest in God, they invest in human beings, and the world orients and evolves around human beings. But to those of you on the left, you secular people, you're not compelled to practice any religion, nobody is enforcing that on you. The Schiavo case has nothing to do with anybody's right not to practice religion. The Schiavo case had no effect on anybody personally whatsoever. What Schiavo was about was Congress acting so the federal courts would review whether her life was being taken in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause. It was constitutional. Everything that happened on the right side in the Schiavo case happened as a result of the Constitution, pure and simple. Everything that happened on the left side of the Schiavo case happened because of the fear on the left, on the secular side, that the constitutional side would win.
Now, the discrimination. The liberals can act all afraid or angry or put out that religious people or people of faith are taking over, but I think the discrimination is the other way around.
If you and your community want to post the Ten Commandments in the public square, guess what? You can't.
That's under attack. Tell me how the religious right is winning on this?
If you in your community want school children to have the opportunity to say the Pledge of Allegiance, that's under attack if you put the word "God" in it. If you and your community want religious symbols displayed in the public square, that's under attack, and you probably are going to lose, till you fight back.
If you want to look at who's causing the problem, who's causing discrimination, who's discrimination against whom, who's trying to force what on whoever? You know, by putting a religious symbol and nativity scene in a town square, you're not forcing that on anybody. You're not saying that they're compelled to go revere it. They're not even compelled to go look at it.
But the people on the secular left look at it, they get scared. They don't even want to see it. It's like showing Dracula the cross. They don't even want to see it, it scares them so much. And so just like political correctness is designed to stop people from saying what secular leftists don't want to hear, so are the attacks on religious people so that secular leftists don't have to see what they don't want to see because seeing what they don't want to see challenges their weak belief system. Hearing what they don't want to hear challenges their weakly structured intellectual belief system. So the fear is on their side. Nobody is compelled to do anything.
Now, the Constitution -- and again this is for those of you on the left -- the Constitution prevents a government religion being imposed on you, as it was in England. It doesn't say that you're not to be offered the opportunity to be religious, and it doesn't say that you're not to be offended from religious symbols. There's no constitutional right that you won't be offended. It's not there. Now, give liberal judges enough time and it will be enshrined in the Constitution, that we all have a right not to be offended and wait till we start litigating that. But it's not there now. You do not have a right not to be offended from religious symbols or references to God. And so since you're not to be offended, you're not going to allow yourselves to be offended, you have to purge from public aspects of society all of these things that offend you, because you have appropriated to yourselves a right not to be offended. But if you don't want to practice religion then don't practice it.
I guarantee all of you secularists and leftists out there, you would have hated America just as much prior to the time when the Supreme Court in 1947 ruled that there's a wall of separation between church and state.
Do you know that's the first time that it was actually ruled? We think that it's in the Constitution, a wall of separation and it's not there. There's no such thing. This is another example of how the Constitution has been bastardized by liberalism. There's no such thing in the Constitution. It was in 1947. It's not that long ago, a Supreme Court decision that found a wall of separation between church and state. A bunch of libs. So, you could go back, you libs could go back prior to that, back to 1945, and you still would be confronted with religious people, they were all over the place, they've been all over this country ever since it was founded. So even after the Supreme Court says, "There is a wall of separation between church and state," you're still afraid, even though the Supreme Court's given you what you want, the so-called wall, but somehow the wall doesn't seem to be stopping the religious. So you've got to jump over the wall and you've got to stop them yourself when it comes to nativity scenes or whatever.
I still maintain that all this is about a total lack of understanding and a fear that is felt, quivering in corners, folks, these liberals do when they start, you know, imagining the strength of faith. I mean what would you rather have faith in, you know, God or yourself? You need both, but, you know, the people that only have faith in themselves and their fellow human beings, imagine the dismal, miserable existence that is. If you only have faith in your fellow human beings and you look around the news every day what are our fellow human beings doing to each other? It's not a pretty sight.
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