Responding to Diane Jessup's Inquiry - Page 20

I didn't want to bump this thread again but I can't help myself. 

 Mudwick you say ~  * "No one disputed anything about the contents of the Constitution- I merely pointed out that the word God doesn't appear once, in the entirety of the document. " *

That is not true. And I'm compelled to stand up on my 2 legs and say so. God (our Lord) is mentioned in that document .. maybe you should reread the (yes) the US Constitution as if you own it, instead of reading it as if your against it.

This is what pisses me off, no matter how hard you try .. God is referenced there. I suppose afterwhile your conclusions will end with (like your OPINION on) the Declaration of Independence. Not a legal document. Phhsstt

Now, I'm threw with this thread.. and no this isn't a agree to disagree copout. I totally disagree and that's how I'll end with it.

Have a good one.

(edit : 4 U Mudwick) Courtesy of my Red White and Blue !!!  YAY America !!!!!

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The date, and only because this is the customary way dates were recorded at the time.   "in the year of our lord", BE, that's the only inference or reference to a god/lord   (yours or anyone else's) in the entire US Constitution, at least that I am aware of.   I guess a person can read as much, or as little,  into that as a person wants.

Nope.
The word God doesn't appear a single time, anywhere in the entire text of the US Constitution.

The date format of the time "In the year of our Lord" is used.  The date format was so common, that Thomas Jefferson even signed the letters in which he made clear he was not a Christian, with the same format [in the year of our Lord].  Even the letter in which he said:

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

Suggesting I re-read the Constitution is absurd.
I took an oath to defend it with my life.  Twice.

The website you link clearly states that he was a member of no church.

As he soundly rejected the idea of Christ's virgin birth, I think he would not qualify as a Christian.
I'm not sure, but I think belief in the virgin birth is one of the tenents of nearly all Christian denominations.

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I did.
It says Jefferson was a Deist who considered Jesus to be a mortal man, who taught good moral lessons [similar to Ghandi, or Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.]

I also am a Deist, and I consider Jesus to have been a fantastic teacher of morality and ethics.  As well as a mortal man.


It also says that Jefferson [like myself] rejected the notion that Christ was resurrected from the cross.

It's very easy for me to believe in Christ, because I have seen.
“Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet believe” (Jn. 20:29).

And you're absolutely entitled to your faith.
Just as I am mine.  That's the beautiful thing about this country.

Some would see it turned into an American version of Saudi Arabia's Sharia State.