On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 23:07, ben wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:14:38 -0800 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:39:31AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > whatever about the rest, a theocracy in a century! bush has already made > public statements about how god instructed him to invade afghanistan and > iraq. what the hell happend to separation of church and state? on top of
Tell you what: I won't interpret the German Constitution if you don't interpret the U.S. Constitution. Do you even know what "separation of church and state" means? Does it mean "government officials shall avoid religion at all costs", or does it mean "Congress shall make no law respecting an estab- lishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"? http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/constitution/amdt1.html http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am1 Yes, that's right: Jefferson didn't mean what we now understand "a wall of separation between Church and State" to mean. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA YODA: Code! Yes. A programmer's strength flows from code maintainability. But beware of Perl. Terse syntax... more than one way to do it...default variables. The dark side of code maintainability are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you when code you write. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
