What Should Obama's Priority be After Inauguration?
On January 20, Barack Obama placed his right hand on the Bible, swore to uphold the Constitution and became the 44th president of the United States. The historical symbolism of this moment was enormous, but the honeymoon won't last long. In fact, it may have already ended. With a crippled economy, a war in two countries and divided nation to contend with, Obama takes office at one of the most troubled times in American history. What should his priorities be once the inauguration celebrations are over?
Mr. President, Rebuild that Wall!
- From FFRF
By Freedom From Religion Foundation - Protecting Church and State Separation
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Separation of Church and State
The Bush administration through the faith-based initiatives has greatly damaged the separation of church and state. This issue is of utmost importance to me.
- DW406
January 16, 2009 12:55PM
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Higher, please....
Religion should be treated just the same way that the conservatives wanted to treat the failing auto companies. If it can't stand on it's own, it should be allowed to fail.
- Lazareus
January 16, 2009 4:31PM
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Real change or "chump change"?
It looks like the secularists will have to
keep their eight-year "guerilla war" going
to prevent further erosion of the church-state wall.
On this and other "third-rail issues, Obama
looks like a "play-it-safe" kinda guy.
- Ed-words
January 17, 2009 9:41AM
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Tearing the wall down
You tell me--what kind of shape would our government be in without religion--faith--or belief in the ways of God? Many people have a lot of Book knowledge but they have no reasoning or common sense. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge, education, and experience. They think that they are wise and smart but they prove to be ignorant and stupid with their words.
Take religion, or the belief in the book called the Bible, away from our government and you will have a disasterous government. What kind of shape or form would our country be in if you people destroyed the image that the book represents ("Let us make man in our IMAGE after our LIKENESS")and take it completely out of the sight and minds of the people? The whole purpose of The Bible is to join every man, woman, and child together to become like minded. Can't people understand WORDS that they read in a sentence?
Take another look--Let us MAKE MAN in our IMAGE--Is an image a person or a physical body? An image is a representation of a person, or thing. It is a visual impression. If this representation or visual impression of a person is bothering you so much, then keep this impression out of your life. Does it mean so much to you to destroy the GOD figure out of our government? What will you gain? You don't gain--YOU LOSE!
Lets do a little more reasoning--"Let us make man in our image--AFTER OUR LIKENESS.
The book-that is a representation of a person called God and Jesus is not making people--The books PURPOSE is make an exact copy or exact replica of a Godly figure whose LIKENESS is in the WAYS of the LORD.
Jesus said, "I AM the WAY". You, along with many others, are determined to destroy this word "religion" by this "wall of seperation". If one would take the time to look at the WALL that people tried to build in Bible--Genesis Chapter 11--they would see what is happening right now with our government's intrepretation of the "Wall of Seperation". Thomas Jefferson's wall of seperation statement was to seperate RELIGIONS from government not Gods Word.
To him, man made religions were a big JOKE. To him, they took your hard earned money from you so they could teach you how to understand a very in depth book about the good and bad WAYS of life. Religions all use their Bibles to teach good and right WAYS: characters, behaviors, attitudes, etc . To him, there was no religion better than the other religion. He did not believe in RELIGION--nor do I. He believed in GODS WORD being the truth. He did not need a RELIGION to interpret the BIBLE or try to run his life for him. He did not want to account to some religion for his actions, his ways, or his decisions on how to run a country. He did not have to hear a "said translation" to the words that he read because he was one of the few men on this earth who could understand what he was reading.
If one would take their eyes off of the image of God one would see that it is the likeness of GODS WAYS which makes our government better than any other form of government in the world. Our government differs in customs, manners, and WAYS from every other country in the world--We are a loving--caring--gentle--giving country made AFTER the LIKENESS of GOD. We are a country that punishes bad and evil made AFTER THE LIKENESS OF GOD. We pass JUDGMENT AFTER THE LIKENESS OF GOD. Our government gives people many chances to straighten out their ways and behaviors of life before passing sentence just like the WAYS of God.
In order to have a likeness--one's mind must be made like anothers.
Do we need God like MINDS running our government or God like customs, manners, and WAYS running our government?
I, like Thomas Jefferson, say religions have no part whatsoever in government. I don't want to live under a rule of religious beliefs. Only way to have a good and right government is to run a government under the WAYS OF GOD and JESUS CHRIST.
Obamas top priority is to put the MIND of God first in all his decisions and everything else will fall into place. Jesus said, "I AM the WAY--the TRUTH--and the LIFE. Let us run a government AFTER THE LIKENESS or the WAYS the Bibles teaches and stick to it's rules and regulations in all WAYS. Let the WAYS guide and direct our government in the right direction not the man Obama. Just like religions--or said translations-- His ways might not be right.
There is no religious tests to become a public official--we will soon see if for ourselves if this man is a godly man or not. His actions will let us know what kind of man he really is. I wish him the best.
God Bless this--OUR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA--our GOVERNMENT!
We have so much fighting over this word "RELIGION" which is the whole wall of seperation itself.
- lyntel
January 22, 2009 10:19AM
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