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Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
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"Our very way of life is under siege," said Mortensen, whose understanding of the Constitution derives not from a close reading of the document but from talk-show pundits, books by television personalities, and the limitless expanse of his own colorful imagination. "It's time for true Americans to stand up and protect the values that make us who we are."
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"Right there in the preamble, the authors make their priorities clear: 'one nation under God,'" said Mortensen, attributing to the Constitution a line from the Pledge of Allegiance, which itself did not include any reference to a deity until 1954. "Well, there's a reason they put that right at the top."
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These are in .AAC format. The archive seems to have all 85 papers.
Author:Moses Hess - Wikisource
I'm curious about this guy, who apparently (according to Michael Harrington) writes about so-called "atheistic Christians" in the same vein as Marx's remarks between the "spiritual" state and the "corporeal" civil and economic order. He was sort of the intellectual forefather of Zionism, supposedly.
Karl Marx, "On The Jewish Question (Zur Judenfrage)" (1843)
"Where the political state has attained its true development, man – not only in thought, in consciousness, but in reality, in life – leads a twofold life, a heavenly and an earthly life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means, and becomes the plaything of alien powers. The relation of the political state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relations of heaven to earth. The political state stands in the same opposition to civil society, and it prevails over the latter in the same way as religion prevails over the narrowness of the secular world – i.e., by likewise having always to acknowledge it, to restore it, and allow itself to be dominated by it."
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Add Sticky NoteThe perfect political state is, by its nature, man’s species-life,
as opposed to his material life. All the preconditions of this egoistic
life continue to exist in
civil society
outside the sphere of the state,
but as qualities of civil society. Where the political state has attained
its true development, man – not only in thought, in consciousness, but
in reality, in life – leads a twofold life, a heavenly and an earthly
life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a
communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private
individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means,
and becomes the plaything of alien powers. The relation of the political
state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relations of heaven
to earth. The political state stands in the same opposition to civil society,
and it prevails over the latter in the same way as religion prevails over
the narrowness of the secular world – i.e., by likewise having
always to acknowledge it, to restore it, and allow itself to be dominated
by it. In his most immediate reality, in civil society, man is a secular
being. Here, where he regards himself as a real individual, and is so regarded
by others, he is a fictitious phenomenon. In the state, on the other hand,
where man is regarded as a species-being, he is the imaginary member of
an illusory sovereignty, is deprived of his real individual life and endowed
with an unreal universality.- This is a crucial passage for Harrington in The Politics at God's Funeral (1983). - on 2009-10-21
Preaching the Gospel Would be Against the Law! (And Other Hate Crimes Myths) (via Politics Daily - Disputations (religion news and comment))
With a Senate vote expected soon to expand federal hate crimes laws to include sexual orientation, religious conservatives are ramping up the rhetoric
Brian M. Rafferty, "Pagan 'King' Has Council GOP Nod," Queens Tribune (Sept. 17, 2009)
An article about Dan Halloran, a member of a Neo-Pagan group who is now running for NY City Council from Queens. This was written up in Religion Dispatches (http://j.mp/zYfz8). I saved an archived version of Halloran's website at Iterasi (http://sqrl.it/?spj7w).
Anglican Mainstream » Blog Archive » “Simply Unprecedented” — President Obama and the Gay Rights Movement
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Add Sticky NoteYou will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.
- Notice that he did NOT say that he would press for legal recognition of same-sex marriage. He seemed to be pretty careful about that. - on 2009-10-12
McNaughton Fine Art -- "One Nation Under God"
Remarkable piece of religious art that shows Jesus holding a copy of the Constitution with a tableau of quintessentially American figures behind him -- from Harriet Tubman and Ben Franklin to Christa McAuliffe and JFK. In front of Christ are a group of good people on the right (a teacher, a mother with a "handicap child", a solder and a college student carrying an influential Mormon text) and bad people on the left (a Supreme Court justice, a "liberal reporter," a smug-looking professor with a copy of Darwin's Origin, "Mr. Hollywood," and Satan).
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