[Vision2020] Which God?

[Ralph Nielsen]

DEISM The belief in a God who created the universe and then abandoned  
it, assuming no control over life, exerting no influence on natural  
phenomena, and giving no supernatural revelation. The American  
Heritage Dictionary.

The God of deism is definitely not the Abrahamic God.

The only right in the US Constitution that can be traced to the Magna  
Carta of 1215 is the right to a fair trial. The only other articles  
still in force pertain to the Church of England and the City of London.

I visited the isle of Runnymede, in the middle of the Thames River,  
in the summer of 2005. I was most surprised that the monument there  
was erected by the American Bar Association, in 1957.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ABA2Runnymede.jpg

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


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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