Sirbrad said:
"Intelligence and rational thinking actually separates man from God ... Man assumes that just because something cannot be "scientifically" proven that it must not exist."
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Sirbrad:
Thanks for one of the most thought-provoking and well-worded posts I've ever read on this forum.
I wholeheartedly agree. For all the intelligence claimed by the scientific community and the so-called "Illuminati," one would think they would have the good sense to realize that there are things not meant to be understood by mortal man.
Science has an inherent need to explain everything we don't understand; three words you'll never hear from a scientist: "We don't know."
Conjecture spawns a hypothesis, hypotheses become theories and theories become fact under the guise of, "How else can this be explained? It's our best guess until someone comes up with a theory we like better than this one, so this is how it is. Period. End of discussion."
In addition, "Separation of church and state" has been bastardized to mean we can't put the Ten Commandments on the courthouse lawn, that we can't allow our children to pray in school and that we, as Americans have no use for the Divine principles on which this country was founded. The term actually has nothing to do with keeping God out of the courthouses and schools.
The founding fathers were speaking specifically of the hopelessly corrupt Trinity Church when they put that clause into the the constitution, because they didn't want state (meaning elected) officials in America to be influenced by that body as they were in Britain at the time. The Trinity Church was one of the richest and most powerful entities in the western world, and used their influence to buy British lawmakers and members of Parliament and turn them into puppets. Trinity came to this country with the founding of Jamestown, and bought or otherwise claimed thousands of square miles of land in the northeast. The men who drafted the constitution were not without adequate foresight, an attribute which is sorely missed in our modern politicians, and so they attempted to preclude similar problems here by forbidding our civic leaders from attaching themselves to Trinity. It was simply another measure to protect the general population from corrupt lawmakers.
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, et. al. envisioned a government not only different, but far removed from the oppressive tyranny which defined England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. One must remember that we were still British subjects when Jamestown was founded in 1607, and the settlement was financed by The London Company, which had very strong ties to the Trinity Church.
It seems to me that the more we turn away from our religious convictions, the closer this country comes to a complete and utter collapse. Is this a coincidence? Maybe, but by the time we know for certain, it might be too late. When a person finds that all he holds dear is suddenly taken away, for any reason, he will invariably turn to Christ. If all the criminals currently being housed and cared for at our expense (which, in most cases, far exceeds any amount they ever earned while free) had bothered to pick up a Bible before they committed their crimes, I like to believe that most of them wouldn't be there today. It's not necessarily true; it just makes me feel better to believe that.
Someone murders someone else, goes to prison and shortly thereafter is miraculously reborn to religious practices and convictions. This process has been reduced to a very precise formula. However, if prayer were allowed in school, at work, or anywhere else one might choose to pray, isn't it feasible that many potential criminals would look to Divine guidance to help work through their problems before throwing their lives away in a fit of rage or one of desperation?
Again, maybe not, but it makes me feel better to believe that they would, so unless and until the scientists come up with a better theory, I'll hold onto this one ...