{"id":184,"date":"2005-12-14T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T01:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/in-christ-we-trust\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T22:12:18","slug":"in-christ-we-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/in-christ-we-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"In Christ We Trust?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the paper this morning, a comics character tells Santa she wishes people would recognize <\/p>\n

our nation was founded on “Christian principles with a broad tolerance towards other faiths.” I’m touched by that right-wing politically <\/p>\n

correct notion of “broad tolerance” — ie, mind your place and we’ll put up with you.<\/p>\n

Where exactly in the Constitution does one <\/p>\n

read “In Christ We Trust” or “Christ Bless America”? I am aware of the very few references to god and a creator in our founding <\/p>\n

documents, but where is Christ mentioned?<\/p>\n

You understand the confusion. Christians aren’t merely monotheists, they’re monopoly-<\/p>\n

theists. They accept the notion that the only way to god is through Jesus. Frankly, I find it hard to believe the gentle Jesus was so <\/p>\n

arrogant. Still, with Jesus as the gatekeeper, all references to god must implicitly include Jesus. So it is that a nation that makes the <\/p>\n

blandest references to an unspecified god must really worship Jesus.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it’s just that Christians, like the Radical Right, <\/p>\n

associate all that is good with themselves and all that is evil with others. That is, they deny their humanity and the humanity of others <\/p>\n

— we are all flawed in good and bad ways. But, if you only have good on your side and, we agree, the Constitution is a “good” document, <\/p>\n

it must be a “Christian” document. Nonsense.<\/p>\n

I’ve never understood why anyone worships the god of the Old Testement — just read <\/p>\n

Job or Issac. The old god is one mean and demanding being. Good news, everybody, there’s a New Testement with a sweet nice guy as it’s <\/p>\n

protagonist. You’ll go to hell if you don’t fully accept that as fact.<\/p>\n

My Messiah would surpass the very best teachers I’ve <\/p>\n

ever had. S\/he would say, “good for you for finding your own solution.” My Buddha would say, “damn, I wish I’d thought of that as a way <\/p>\n

to enlightenment.” My Muhommad would say to the others, “you should see this kid — no one has ever asked that question before.”<\/p>\n

Or, more likely, “where the hell did you get the idea that it is OK to push others around and take their stuff?” mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the paper this morning, a comics character tells Santa she wishes people would recognize our nation was founded on “Christian principles with a broad tolerance towards other faiths.” I’m touched by that right-wing politically correct notion of “broad tolerance” — ie, mind your place and we’ll put up with you. Where exactly in the … Continue reading In Christ We Trust?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada","category-the-atheists-pulpit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}