God and Country?

A lazy Monday. It is Richard's day off after his work week, so we treat it like a Saturday. He mowed and I worked on some computer things, then we played a borrowed board game, Ticket to Ride. Good game, I beat the Tall Man both times we played.

Not much exciting to write about. We had a cheap but very good Boston butt pork roast meal. I only paid $2.39/lb. for it. I baked an angel food cake yesterday and we had it with strawberries and whipped cream. Now,. since the most stimulating thing I can think to write about is dinner, perhaps we should look at this:

Some say it came from Andy Rooney, I don't know, but here it is. I may put it up on my web site.

GOD & COUNTRY
There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.

As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view. It is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments!

As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see on the wall right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!

James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our Constitution" made the following statement:" We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."

Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said:
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.

Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies.

Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law . An oligarchy, the rule of few over many.

The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said:
"Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers."

How, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional? How can we justify imprisoning a paster for denouncing the new policy of silencing the Christians while giving preferential voice to all other religious and/or ethnic views and doctrines?