Posted by John Gray Wallace on 12/22/2007, 10:59 am, in reply to "Re: My how times have changed at Wilson High!"
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I am not advocating the institution of a Christian policy here----only that the same standard be applied evenly in every case, AND that the standard applied conform to already established Constitutional Law. Sophistries, no matter how clever or deliberately confusing, are unable to change what is really at stake in this matter. As for the comment "no doubt in a true Christian nation, this young girl would have been burned or stoned for her perversions", this is clearly untrue & a mere clumsy attempt to obscure the real issue; Christ Himself established the Christian model in such instances when he interceded to save the life of a woman who was about to be stoned for her behavior. Mr. Jordan has taken a number of misdeeds perpetrated by Christians over the years to justify the world's current treatment of Christians, without regard for whether or not those misdeeds represent true Christianity. One can do the same with Secular Humanism, and even the "Sacred" field of Science. Science once also held to the "Geocentric" rather than the "Heliocentric" theory of the earth's orbit around the Sun. Science once also held to the notion that the earth is flat. As far as the earth "having...audacity", that cannot be; people can be audacious, take calculated risks, etc. but the planet itself is NOT a reasoning entity and cannot therefore do so. Much of Mr. Jordan's argument is emotional rather than logical, designed to persuade rather than to discover the truth of an issue---a type of argument (sophistry)most commonly associated with barristers and which dates back to the sophists in ancient Greece. Note that I never advocated "teaching" any religion in the schools---just NOT the abolition of the Christian Faith or the Bible FROM schools---but Mr. Jordan has chosen to turn this, and much else, around; a typically "sophisticated" tactic. It is the fact that this once was a predominantly Christian nation which compelled our forefathers to march against Hitler to stop the genocide of millions in Europe, and to march against Imperial Japan in the wake of Pearl Harbor and "The Rape of Nanking". Yes, every group, Christianity included, is guilty of some excess at times throughout history---yet this should never be taken to justify a deliberate campaign of extermination towards them. It is when a group, such as the Nazis, or the REAL Taliban, exhibits a consistently pure pattern of excess when action to bring them to heel may reasonably be contemplated. As per the Taliban---the advances of women in the culture of the United States could never have occurred under the Taliban; no greater refutation of Mr. Jordan's equation of the Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell groups TO the Taliban is required. History teaches that the Founding Fathers were, for the most part, Deists, Theists and/or Judaeo-Christians. Most agreed and most publically proclaimed that Faith was the basis for the American Experiment. Divorced from its Faith, the great "American Experiment" will fail.
