alt.education

On Apr 6, 11:09=A0am, buckeye wrote:
> veritas wrote:
> >:|Peter Franks wrote:
> >:|> What is the foundation of the law?
> >:|>
> >:|
> >:|The foundation of laws in the beginning were to form societies that
> >:|worked. =A0That is the foundation. It began thousands of years ago, but=

> >:|we used common law from England as a base to begin our structure of
> >:|laws, as most were already in place.
>
> He is playing games.
>
> What he wants someone to say is that ultimately God is the source of laws.=

>
> ***************************************************************
> You are invited to check out the following:
>
> The Rise of the Theocratic States of Americahttp://members.tripod.com/~can=
dst/theocracy.htm
>
> American Theocrats - Past and Presenthttp://members.tripod.com/~candst/the=
ocrats.htm
>
> The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and Statehttp://members=
.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
>
> [and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
> Church and State in general, listed below]
>
> HRSepCnS =B7 Historical Reality SepChurch&Statehttp://groups.yahoo.com/gro=
up/HRSepCnS/
>
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> . . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
> respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. =A0Word=
s
> take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "=
a
> page of history is worth a volume of logic." =A0New York Trust Co. v. Eisn=
er,
> 256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
> Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
> . . .
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> USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
>
> "You pilot always into an unknown future;
> facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
>
> That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
> many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
>
> It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
> plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
> almost every media turn.
>
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> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
> =A0 =A0 SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
>
> http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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That is the last damn thing I am saying. God or Gods have nothing to
do with this, other than perhaps to fool people into thinking a law
was given by a god or gods. But, I don't want anyone to say that, and
I'm damn sure not saying it. I'm not writing this as emotional, just
surprised that you would think that. I'm agnostic. Regards, Ken Hogan