[Vision2020] Which God?

[Glenn Schwaller]

Donovan, thanks for setting the record straight on the God issue.  An
objective viewpoint is always good.

GS

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2008 at yahoo.com
> wrote:

> Ralph,
>
> All those religions worship the same, The God of Abraham. They just worship
> in a different manner, and have different beliefs and ideology about God.
> Humans are all different, so their take on life and their relationship to
> Him are going to be different as well, obviously.
>
> I don't think anyone said that God created the Universe and left it alone.
> Most religions do believe in some kind of divine intervention and the
> ability to inspire people to do his bidding.
>
> Many rights listed in the Constitution were derived from the the Rights of
> Royal Subjects as outlined originally in the *Magna Carta Libertatum for
> Barons and freemen* written in 1215 in England, not the United States. It
> has seen been altered several times.
>
> Your Friend,
>
> Donovan Arnold
>
>
>
> --- On *Sat, 1/9/10, Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu>
> Subject: [Vision2020] Which God?
> To: "vision 2020" <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 6:08 PM
>
>
>  Doesn't Rammell believe in the Mormon God? So now we have four different
> Gods: Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Mormon, all in the so-called
> Abrahamic tradition. And then there is the God of some of the Founding
> Fathers, the deistic God, who created the universe, wound it up, and left it
> to run by itself, just like a giant clock. So he was NOT involved in writing
> the Constitution, it was written by human beings, the Founding Fathers.
>
> Ralph
>
> Keely wrote:
> The meeting of prominent businessmen that serves as the context for
> Rammell's comments featured suggestions that the U.S. Constitution is
> somehow "divinely inspired," which is what Christians and Jews and Muslims
> say of their Scriptures.  Presumably Rammell identifies with Christianity;
> if so, he ought to be ashamed at the thought that God can be co-opted to
> author a nation's founding documents.
>
> I will be ranting about this later on the blog, but I think the point needs
> to be made now.
>
> Keely
> www.keely-prevailingwinds.com
>
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