First we have Sam Patti, die-hard Republican asserting that “52 of the 55 signers of the Declaration of Independence were orthodox … Bible carrying Christians. The three others all believed in the Bible as the Divine Truth.”
I’m inclined to suspect he’s full of it since Thomas Jefferson signed the Declaration and he spent a lot of effort editing the Bible (out with miracles and other stuff he felt religion had added to the truth) to create one of his own. So he was hardly orthodox, and hardly accepted the Bible as “divine truth” in the way it’s usually meant today.
Even if so—so what? The Founders of this country wrote a secular Constitution that didn’t mention God except to say there would be no religious tests for office (something seen as scandalously anti-Christian at the time). They may all have been Christians (although much of what I read seems otherwise) but they didn’t create a Christian nation as anyone at the time (or today) would think of it.
Then Patti asserts that “since the 1960s, God has not been welcome in America.” So God was more welcome back in the days of Jim Crow segregation? Back when it was legal to hire and fire based on religion and gender and gays were banned from federal service?
I think Patti’s God and mine have different perspectives.
Then we have Eileen Zunich of Miramar Beach who asserts that Obama’s stance on Fox News is “beyond what any previous administration has done” regarding “controlling all news coverage.”
Yes, criticizing Fox and not giving them interviews is sooo much greater control than say, Bush administration’s record:
•Paying columnists to write favorable pieces
•Ignoring Helen Thomas, a veteran white house reporter, when she kept asking unwanted questions
•The Pentagon’s program for providing the media with military “experts” who had agreed to support the administration’s war plans, while discouraging the use of talking heads who didn’t.
•Staged mock press conferences with FEMA employees pretending to be reporters.
Then, today, we have a letter from Rodger Woltjer of Niceville who’s very upset that because of animal rights groups the circus is no longer “a celebrated event shared by young and old alike” and that by protesting animal cruely they have joined “the ranks of the Anti-Christ crowd.” Because Jesus really loved animal cruelty?

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