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Offline sammyjohn

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Darwin Missed This
« on: April 09, 2012, 10:44:08 PM »
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  • Darwin missed the mark on evolution as well as a few other things.  What Darwin did manage to do however, was touch a nerve.  Depending on how you view Darwin and his work, ‘On the Origin of Species,’ it can and does weigh heavily on many lives, perhaps most importantly, on your death.
    http://www.catholicsontheedge.com/2012/03/14/darwin-missed-this/


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    Darwin Missed This
    « Reply #1 on: April 10, 2012, 09:39:53 AM »
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  • "According to Coulter, “when one school in Georgia put stickers in biology books urging students to study evolution with an open mind,” they were sued by the ACLU.  The ACLU claimed it violated separation of Church and State.  Since when does the truth cause a violation in the constitution or for that matter, an open mind? "

    Where in the Constitution is it written about "Separation of Church and State"?

    I tell you where...........it doesn't.

    And the ACLU should be shut down as a treasonous entity and classified as an enemy of the state and the people of the United States.

    Trust me, someday it will.


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    Darwin Missed This
    « Reply #2 on: April 10, 2012, 08:51:46 PM »
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  • Quote from: alaric
    "According to Coulter, “when one school in Georgia put stickers in biology books urging students to study evolution with an open mind,” they were sued by the ACLU.  The ACLU claimed it violated separation of Church and State.  Since when does the truth cause a violation in the constitution or for that matter, an open mind? "

    Where in the Constitution is it written about "Separation of Church and State"?

    I tell you where...........it doesn't.

    And the ACLU should be shut down as a treasonous entity and classified as an enemy of the state and the people of the United States.

    Trust me, someday it will.


    I'm sorry, but you're quite wrong on this point.  The First Amendment to the Constitution states that there shall be no establishment of religion by the government which is, and was always intended to be, a secular establishment.  One need look no further than the text of the Treaty of Tripoli, ratified a mere ten years after the formal institution of the United States, to see that.  The separation was the culmination of Enlightenment naturalism that informed the descendants of those individuals that founded the colonies.  It was their own brutal experience with the hierarchy of the Anglican heretics, whose very political inroads had allowed it to so thoroughly stamp out the English Church and which later allowed them to persecute and then expel the Puritans, that led them to embrace that "most pernicious error", as says Pope St. Pius X, of the separation of religion from the civil state.  Of course, it is this very separation which leads to the inexorable decline of civilization, for the civil state, which by the nature of authority must govern the actions of men, cannot hope to maintain just law in accordance with Natural Law and Christian doctrine if it acknowledges no authority beyond the will of imperfect humans as the source and author of civil morality.

    The non-establishment clause of that Amendment is worse than outright persecution of the Church, as it suggests by means of its very nature, that all religions enjoy equal protection, and restriction, under the law.  The consequence of this is that it denies the God-given primacy of the Christian religion, resulting in the very Americanist indifferentism that led to the current apostasy.

    The ACLU will never be hindered, to say nothing of shut down altogether, by the naturalist government or those that subscribe to the heretical principles on which the American nation was founded.

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    « Reply #3 on: April 10, 2012, 08:59:28 PM »
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  • Just a side point, but if someone should say that if the Church really had a problem with Darwin's "Origin of the Species" they would have put it on the Index, counter that none of the 16th century Protestant Martin Chemnitz works are on the Index and he's almost as responsible for the Lutheran error as Luther.
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    Darwin Missed This
    « Reply #4 on: April 10, 2012, 09:21:42 PM »
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    Just a side point, but if someone should say that if the Church really had a problem with Darwin's "Origin of the Species" they would have put it on the Index, counter that none of the 16th century Protestant Martin Chemnitz works are on the Index and he's almost as responsible for the Lutheran error as Luther.


    Very true.  I would posit, and I admit that I have no literal or anecdotal evidence to support this supposition, that the work of Darwin was so obscure and seemingly fantastical at its publication that the Holy Office felt it was of no particular threat.  I have to say, though, that I'm disappointed with that article, which is little more than a rehash of the irreducible complexity argument and a pretty gross appeal to ridicule with the whole ACLU aside.  That's not the way to argue for the faith.