at my school is a five hundered page book of the documentation of america's roots in God. The founding fatherd didn't want a bill of rights because they considered it redundant, it would codify rights given by God. Washington's inauguration speech: "this country owes more to the invisible hand [God] than any other on earth" terrible paraprase, but...
let me ask you. What are the battle cries of the revolution. Have you ever heard them. I'd be supprised if you did, they're pretty politically incorrect: "No king but King Jesus!" Modern historians try to claim that the founding fathers were deists. This doesn't work. Jefferson and Franklin were, and coincidentially they are focused on more than any others. That deist concept doesn't work because the prayer journal of Washington is considered to be one of the better christian prodistant devotional works. Go back further. The first governing city on this continent was the massachusets colony, who saught to become a "shining city on a hill" the same language used in matthew five to describe the followers of christ. The fact is that if the colonists weren't fighting for their God they wouldn't have revolted knowing what would happen to them. Most of the signers of the decleration of independance had bad happen to them in the war. Five were executed as traitors.Twelve had their homes raized to the ground. Two had sons killed in the war, two more had sons captured in the war, nine died in the war! What can make men do this. Liberty that they will never taste. What makes iraqis blow themselves up in the streets for a hopeless cause. Colonial america is much to england as iraq is to us as far as military power (it's not imperialism, don't get any ideas).
Now to the government itself. Why do we have a senate. That's roman. Why do we have two houses? That's the form of government used by the jews sometime after the decline of their monarchial powers. It's strongly religious. It was fed with many religious things. That's why the marriage amendment is so debated. Marriage is religious. The church essentially owns marriage, and the conservative church wants it back the way they gave it to them. Religion loaned somthing to the government. The responsibility of the government is to take care of what we have given to them as we want it taken care of. The reason there's so much controversy is because the church is as happy with getting back a different form of marriage as you'd be if while I was houssitting for you, I burnt your house down because I claimed it as mine. Now I know that's a touchy subject but it's the best practical example of lending somthing to the government. PLEASE take it as such and not a point to debate. I don't want to start a terrible tangent.
