Monday, July 11, 2005

Watching the Religious Right

Kudos to Scott Isebrand for launching his valuable Religious Right Watch blog.

In just two days, this blog is already proving to be a valuable resource for those interested in sharing information about what the Religious Right has been saying and doing. Here's a good example:
In the final version of the Declaration, which is devoid of all mention of Christianity, Jesus, the Bible, etc., there is a reference to "Nature's God." It is capitalized. It is a proper noun; it denotes an entirety. Not "the Christian God," not "Jesus' Father," not "Our Heavenly Father," not even "mankind's God," or "our God," but rather the words used are and the single concept is: "Nature's God." The words appeal to and evoke neither Christianity nor the Bible. So un-Christian is it that if we playfully, anachronistically, view the terminology "Nature's God" through the lens of American culture today, we'd likely see (dismiss?) the term as "New Age."

9 comments:

Bruce Prescott said...

annoying,

Nothing in Isebrand's post or mine relates the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

You did that.

Bruce Prescott said...

annoying,

I was referring to your comment on this post, not to a comment somewhere else.

grandma1 said...

Anonymous or annoying, I don't think you add anything to Bruce's Blog. You just want someone to fuss with and I'm glad ignores you most of the time. You don't add anything to the discussion.

P M Prescott said...

Anon,
If you could not care less take your venom and vitriol elsewhere. Annoying is quite apt for your insipid, stupid, lame and obnoxious diatribes.

Marty said...

mom2,

Are you defending your child too?

P M Prescott said...

Sons will speak up when their mother's are slandered too.
Annoying doesn't want debate, he just wants to provoke an argument, which sometimes can be fun, but when he starts flaming and personally atacks it stops being fun.

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Bruce Prescott said...

All,

This thread has deteriorated to name calling.

Let's move on.