The belief that God is an entitative being; that is to say, something existing in and of itself, while at the same time permeating all else that exists, including the soul of man, is a paradoxical and difficult concept to grasp. However it is useful, and dare I say, essential to the development of a conscience strong enough to resist the temptation to rationalize ones bad behavior. Whether God is an entitative being, or merely a fictional entity created by the mind of man, is irrelevant as to it's effectiveness in this regard; because even though morality can be argued for on a purely rational level, the threat, or even the remote possibility of a "judgement day" can be a very sobering thought indeed.

That might be fine for you, and you are right, no one can see into your head. Unfortunately, for the vast majority of mankind, that opens a Pandora's box of all sorts of unintended consequences coming from unchecked egos, that fear no judgement day.

That of coarse, is why skirting the Constitution and it's Bill of Rights is so dangerous.

If there are any Reagan Dems out there, they may want to heed this modification of the poem by Martin Niemöller: First they came for the conservatives, and I didn't speak out, because I wasn't a conservative. Then they came for the religious, and I didn't speak out, because I wasn't religious. Then they came for the independents, and I didn't speak out, because I wasn't an independent. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.

The only "masterminds" that came close to getting it right, were the Founders, and even they underestimated the duplicity of man. "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."

The records would expose Obama for the drug addled Marxist punk that he was; explaining his actions today! I say that with all due respect, of coarse.

Only about a third of the people that made up the population of the colonies actively supported the revolution, and far less actually fought in it. However, the entire population, and eventually even the slaves, benefited from the liberated society that resulted from the sacrifices of the few. I see no difference today, except that we have in the Constitution, a lawful and largely peaceful solution to effect a political revolution. Unfortunately, today we have the opposite phenomena of a counter-revolution by the left wing solcialists, that is effectively reversing the original revolution. The so called non-political citizens had better wake up and support freedom and responsibility before it is too late!

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structured feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpets or set our stereos so loud the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling conventions. We weren't indifferent, or careless, or insecure. We were alienated." -- Barack Hussein Obama

"We are the ones that we have been waiting for!" Barack Hussein Obama The man told us what he was going to do, and most of the voters swallowed it, hook line and sinker!

Spirit wrote: We are not "overrun with illegal aliens". What would you call 11 million illegals? (and that is a conservative estimate) You must not live in a border state. Further more, if you possessed any reading comprehension, you would realize that I meant in the context of the times, then and now. My point regarding the 14th Amendment was that it was passed to prevent the southern states from disenfranchising the freed slaves. It's vague wording left a loophole for the supreme court to rule that anyone other than the children of foreign diplomats born in the U.S. were citizens. So keep your insults to yourself, my friend.