Deconstructing the Coliseum promotes civil government school system abolition.
I took a lot of heat last week when I said via Godtube that the U.S. Constitution is just a piece of paper. One emailer called me ignorant.
Let me kindly refute that I am ignorant. Sir, at the end of the day every human being puts his or her faith into words. There’s no way around that. Whether the words are written on paper is irrelevant. Scripture is God-breathed and intangible, but God commanded others to write the words on paper.
Now, when I look to the U.S. Constitution, my big assertion is that it is not the source of my rights. If that were true then I could just shred the U.S. Constitution, eliminating everybody’s rights. The Framers agree with me that the U.S. Constitution is not the source of our rights. First, they said just as much in the Declaration of Independence – “unalienable rights”. Our rights can’t be taken away; this is because they come from Jehovah. If “rights” come from man then man has no rights. Second, Amendment Nine implies that the U.S. Constitution is not the source of rights: that Amendment asserts the previous eight Amendments are not an exhaustive list of rights. Third, the U.S. Constitution can’t be the source of our rights because the Framers referenced something else when writing the thing! That is, the Framers put the pieces of paper they wrote on right on top of the Bible. So, when subsequent generations viewed the U.S. Constitution they did so through the lens of Christianity.
I am not anti-U.S. Constitution. As a function of the Christian worldview it has done its job in restraining evil – just exactly what the civil government is supposed to do. But I enjoy telling conservatives that the U.S. Constitution is just a piece of paper because I want them to understand that rights come from God. In that regard, we would know our rights just fine without a U.S. Constitution. But at the same time I want my conservative friends to know that if someone is viewing the U.S. Constitution through a humanistic lens – like all nine Supreme Court Justices do – then my rights still exist. They still exist because they are God-breathed. There’s nothing you as a humanist can do to stop that.
(By the way, you’ll never learn this in the civil government school system.)