The United States Constitutional Republic was built on the concept of immutable rights. Nearly all Americans have bought into this idea, believing individual rights are the path to freedom and prosperity. However, “immutable rights” is but another bill of goods that has further enslaved us, both physically and spiritually. Rights vs. Responsibilities The Bill of […]
Archive for December, 2012
Rights, Rights, Everyone Wants Their Rights
Posted: 29th December 2012 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: age of enlightenment, Bill of Rights, constitution, immutable rights, liberty, natural rights, Ninth Amendment, Puritans, responsibilities, rights, unalienable rights
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Newtown’s Massacre, Today’s Cultural Abyss, and Gun-Free Zones
Posted: 21st December 2012 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: American culture, Christian foundations, constitution, constitutional framers, gun control, gun debate, gun-free zones, Newtown shooting, righteous judgments, rights, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Second Amendment, world view
The December 14, 2012, Newtown, Connecticut, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has impacted all Americans—but not necessarily in the same way. Nor should we expect it would. Regardless which side of the gun debate we find ourselves on, all of us grieve for the families of those whose loved ones were killed. However, beyond our […]
Today’s Mount Carmel Christians
Posted: 14th December 2012 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Christian Constitututionalists, constitution, constitutional framers, Marbury v. Madison, supreme law of the land, vox populi vox dei
Humanity’s eminent question is never that of god or no god, but which god: Yahweh or Baal (1 Kings 18:21), God or Caesar (Matthew 22:21), or God or mammon (Matthew 6:24)? “How long halt ye between two opinions? If Yahweh be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.” (1 Kings 18:21) This was […]
First Commandment Violators: Framers and Bloggers Alike
Posted: 8th December 2012 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Amendment 1, Benjamin Franklin, constitution, constitutional framers, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Free Excercise Clause, freedom of religion, humanism, monotheism, pluralism, polytheism, polytheistic, relativism, statism
Christian bloggers beware! Could you be guilty of the same First Commandment violation as were the constitutional framers? You are if you allow commenters on your blog to promote or justify non-Christian religions (such as Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism), including atheism and cults (such as Catholicism, Mormonism, and the Jehovah Witnesses). For many deceivers are […]