In this article, I address another of the Constitution’s more serious “camels”—which Christians should be choking on instead of swallowing. Article 2’s Atheistic, Polytheistic, and Impotent Oath of Office In addition to fearing and serving Yahweh1, Deuteronomy 6:13 commands us to swear by His name. There are at least three reasons for this command: 1) […]
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Swallowing Camels… Pt. 5
Posted: 31st May 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Amendment 1, Article 2, constitution, First Amendment, George Washington, imprectation, oaths, polytheism, presidential oath, self-malidictory oaths, swearing by God's name, swearing on a Bible, We the People
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Swallowing Camels… Pt. 1
Posted: 3rd May 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Baal, constitution, Constitutional Christians, constitutional framers, Constitutional Republic, First Commandment, humanists, idolatry, Preamble, theocracy, We the People
In the previous series, “Straining at Gnats…,” I addressed what is regrettably an all too common malady among people who call themselves Constitutional Christians—that is, the propensity to try to read the Bible into the Constitution or, at least, into the minds of its framers. The extent that some people go in their attempt to […]
Straining at Gnats… Pt. 7
Posted: 26th April 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Article 6, Bill Fortenberry, Christian Constitututionalists, Christian tests, constitution, constitutional framers, Hidden Facts of the Founding Era, straining at gnats, supreme law of the land, traditions of men, We the People
In this article, I complete my examination of Mr. Fortenberry’s “Hidden Facts of the Founding Era,” in which he proposes forty-eight points that allegedly prove the Constitution was based upon the Bible. Point #45 “Article 6 – ‘All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against […]
Right, Left, and Center: Who Gets to Decide?
Posted: 8th March 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Article 1, ethics, good and evil, lawful versus legal, lawgiver, politicians, politics, Preamble, triune law, unlawful versus illegal, We the People
In politics, everything revolves around the positioning of right, left, and center. You’re either rightwing, leftwing, or a centrist. Politicians and non-politicians alike employ all three terms as if there’s a consensus on the parameters for those designations. Even if this were true, who gets to determine what’s right, left, and center, and how are […]
American Exceptionalism
Posted: 1st February 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: American exceptionalism, Colonial America, constitution, liberty, Preamble, We the People
American exceptionalism is the proposition that the United States is different from other countries in that it has a specific world mission to spread liberty and democracy. It is not a notion that the United States is quantitatively better than other countries or that it has a superior culture, but rather that it is “qualitatively […]