Actually it only prohibits Congress from passing any law establishing a religion. As a result the individual states by virtue of the 10th Amendment are left with that ability. Originally Posted by The2DogsWhat?
Just because your cheap, double-bagger, whoring-sister has a clit more sizable than your dick, you racist, dumb-fuck Yankee jackass, gives you no excuse to call your cheap, double-bagger, whoring-sister a "tranny". Originally Posted by I B HankeringOoooh, a "your sister" joke. Even lamer than a "your mama" joke.
That is about as stupid a comment as I've seen here. The Constitution is not a religious document. Strict adherence to the Constitution results in individual freedom and personal responsibility. Exactly the opposite of most religions.I don't really pay much attention to who's who on here, blah blah republican blah blah democrat. I'm sure away from the keyboard and face to face most everybody here is okay. But I've learned to take great pride in COG calling one of my posts stupid, so at this time I'm beaming.
Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
A definition:Exactly, when a book/document is considered "sacred" and one interpretation such as "originalism" is adopted with no dissent allowed and a self appointed group of folks only to promote and explain that interpretation, even the Constitution begins to look very much like a religion. Originalism is the Constution's fundamentalism. Anybody that says they know what the founders intended (collectively or individually and if individually who gets to pick the Founder whose view prevails on each issue?) and that changing conditions in the world should have no impact is a complete dunce or is hiding an agenda (and we know Scalia isn't a dunce).
Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence.
A preamble:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I wasn't originally suggesting the constitution was a religious document, though I can see an argument for it. Originally Posted by JohnnyCap
Glad I could make you smile, JohnnyCrap. Now you've doubled down on stupid, so I'm sure you'll be even prouder.Anything, not just the Fair Tax, can be discussed with reason and civility.
first we have mere sarcasm and insults
However, while religious dogma does not allow for change, the Constitution does.
The Framers simply wanted to make sure there was a supermajority of sentiment before implementing a change.
Ok, no problems here, nor relevance.
They wanted to avoid simple majority rule democracy, which leads only to tyranny.
Major leap. That's all they wanted to avoid? Only tyranny? Not mob rule, or anarchy? Still not relevant to the original concept.
They tried, and wrote a damn good document.
No issues, no relevance.
Too bad it didn't work. I would have liked my grandchildren to grow up in a free country.
Abundant sarcasm, to the tune of a weak-minded, defeatist quitter.
Thanks to you, and others, that won't happen.
Yikes, what have I done? Suggest a concept? By suggesting a thought, I have brought down the constitution. Maybe it wasn't such a damn good document. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
I would rather be at the alter of the pussy than the alter of the dick that you worship at. Thanks for coming out IB gay Hankering. Originally Posted by i'va biggenBut you've already posted and made it quite clear that you have personal issues with Homo sapiens pussy, Ekim the Inbred Chimp; so, what kind of pussy do you fuck, Ekim the Inbred Chimp?
Ooooh, a "your sister" joke. Even lamer than a "your mama" joke.You're the "joke", you racist, dumb-fuck Yankee jackass, because your cheap, double-bagger, whoring-sister has always made you feel sexually inadequate, you racist, dumb-fuck Yankee jackass, but that is still no reason to call your cheap, double-bagger, whoring-sister a "tranny".
Useless tranny fuckee. Watch out for that butt poison, homo. Originally Posted by ExNYer
I already said that they were careless ....reread that part.So,1-800-JCM-DATO: the lying, hypocritical, racist, cum-gobbling golem fucktard, HDDB, DEM's soiled breechclout, somebody that purposefully -- with 100% certainty -- injects poison into their system is merely "careless" in your book? Coots took an unreasonable risk, 1-800-JCM-DATO: the lying, hypocritical, racist, cum-gobbling golem fucktard, HDDB, DEM's soiled breechclout, but quite unlike those other two scenarios, there was no absolute certainty that the snake was going to successfully bite him and inject poison into his system: there was a high risk, but there was no certainty.
where is the link that ties religion to their deaths?
Coots was just a nut. Originally Posted by JCM800
There's a scene in "Tombstone" portraying Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) lying in a bed in Glenwood Springs, Colorado staring at his bare feet. An amused Holiday is purported to have remarked, "Damn, this is funny," and then he died. IMO, that's an apt ending for a full life. Originally Posted by I B Hankering
What about attention whore thrill seekers.Look, if you die doing what ya love, there is something to be said for that. No matter what it is.
Like base jumpers, and idiot sport bike riders who ride on the highway
like it is a racetrack.
They don't believe in anything miraculous, just that the laws of physics
somehow don't really apply to them. Originally Posted by bojulay