Thomas Jefferson

by | Mar 15, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics

In his first Inaugural Address in 1801, President Thomas Jefferson stated: Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own federal and republican principles…. enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them...

James Madison

by | Mar 15, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics

James Madison, founding father, known as the “chief architect of the Constitution,” on June 20, 1785, wrote in regard to the relationship between religion and civil government. “Religion is the basis and Foundation of Government…. We have staked the...

George Washington

by | Mar 15, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics

In the Church of Virginia on May 10, 1789, Washington stated: If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical...

The Consent of the Governed

by | Mar 15, 2019 | Libertarian Politics, Politics

By: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND 6/5/2010 Tom & Margo, I would be interested in hearing your Christian perspective on the following article. I find that I agree largely with it, and I see a Christian solution being one of principally “self-government”  – government over...

Morality in War

by | Mar 15, 2019 | Christianity in Politics, Politics

By: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND The Medical Consequences of Attacking Iraq: By Helen CaldicottApril 10, 2002 This San Francisco Chronicle editorial was on the subject of using U238 for armament and projectiles.  The article implicated the morality of the Bush...

The Right to Privacy

by | Mar 15, 2019 | Christianity in Politics, Politics

by: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND Right to Privacy – Society has recently elevated the right to privacy to being one of the cardinal social/moral virtues. Select behavior once considered taboo, typically around sexual behaviors or drug use, are now off limits for prosecution...

The Godly Judiciary

by | Mar 15, 2019 | Christianity in Politics, Politics

by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND A Blow to the Rule of Law New York Times: March 22, 2005″If you are in a “persistent vegetative state” and there is a dispute about whether to keep you alive, your case will probably go no further than state court –...

Religion and Tyranny

by | Mar 15, 2019 | Christianity in Politics, Politics

by: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND Thom Hartmann (“progressive” radio talk show host) argues that we are not a Christian Nation and that the Founders would not have supported Judge Roy Moore’s placing of a 10 Commandments monument in a government building....