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Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) this week warned Americans to remember that God wrote the Constitution based on the Bible.
During an appearance on John Hagee Ministries Global Evangelism Television (GETV) network on Wednesday, host Matt Hagee asked the Texas Republican where the country had gone wrong.
I think we got off the track when we allowed our government to become a secular government, DeLay explained. When we stopped realizing that God created this nation, that he wrote the Constitution, that its based on biblical principles.
Governments like we have are very easy to destroy, Hagee later noted.
oh boy:
http://www.rawstory.com/2014/02/tom-delay-people-keep-forgetting-that-god-wrote-the-constitution/
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I had no idea that the Constitution was brought down from Mt. Sinai on two stone tablets.
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)Tom Delay's response: Ignore!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)can result in this kind of monumental historical ignorance. Being as stupid as the BugMan makes it a shorter process, though.
spanone
(135,873 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)or maybe he can....it's beyond comprehension
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Those pesticide fumes must have rotted his brain.
trusty elf
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Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)he write 'Fifty Shades of Grey' too? Go away delay!
FarPoint
(12,437 posts)Makes me wonder where God slept while he wrote the Constitution..... Should be a famous Bed and Breakfast by now.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)too much home schooling.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)onyourleft
(726 posts)I didn't realize we were known for our Bible thumpers. I truly learn something new every day.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)more than my fair share of them when I lived there. And what about that community I think it's up around Lake Winnipesaukee where a whole religious RWNJ group has been trying to take over the county to start the spread of their dogma in government? And then there's the Union Leader crowd... just for starters.
onyourleft
(726 posts)...the Libertarian crowd who moved into Keane and Claremont, but not the Bible thumpers of which you are speaking.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)So if you saw "more than a few", it wasnt very many more.
samsingh
(17,601 posts)was no rule of law
ladjf
(17,320 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)did he miss school? 8th grade or so? The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia was covered.
I went to a high school named after one of the attendants. Many of the schools my state are named for them and for signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)how can any adult human being be that ignorant
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)2naSalit
(86,775 posts)cursive style that makes it look biblical, I guess.
I suspect that this kkklown's surname indicates something regarding his intellectual progression.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)And it's not his first offense.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)as global climate change.
marmar
(77,090 posts)MoonchildCA
(1,301 posts)That's scary shit, man.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)think
(11,641 posts)Why do people let them get away with such things?....
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Maybe we don't a constitution written by a being that gets its kicks by smashing people and things and causing general chaos.
niyad
(113,552 posts)I would dearly love to see ole bugman explaining why his god would destroy a country like that.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)on history, religion and the law. Instead, they just attribute everything to their own God beliefs, which are not even based on scriptures, but rather the personal prejudices they choose. The bible says to care for the poor and sick thousands of times, yet it is the least important part of their religion in their actions and beliefs.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)The current GOP congresscritter occupant is a piece of furniture and may not be able to stop DeLay from returning to this seat
napkinz
(17,199 posts)stage left
(2,966 posts)Does anyone really believe this crap? Even Republicans?
Initech
(100,102 posts)Um..... nowhere!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Paladin
(28,272 posts)How does DeLay explain things like that, I wonder? What an utter piece of filth he is.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,210 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)niyad
(113,552 posts)many of the principles in the constitution are based on the six nations of the iroquois confederacy and their great principle of peace.
TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)The quite secular people, who wrote your Constitution, did not want to base it on biblical principles. But since we in the Western world are living in a bubble created by 1000 year of biblical influence, everything we do will have a smell of that.
In Denmark we have kind of the opposite discussion. Some people are claiming that Jesus invented democracy, but at the same time also, that he secured the separation of State and Church. Which has in fact only been partly true for the last century.
Until 1866, the Danish law was simply The Ten Commandments. Based on the bible so hard, that phrases and quotes from The Old Testament was in the paragraphs. The same thing, maybe not that strict, was and is in the philosophy and principles behind much of U.S. Law.
To get rid of that stuff, you are lucky to have people like Tom DeLay. They makes the stupidity very visible, of keeping that ancient stuff from the days of the Bible in our laws...