Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on
the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below
invites readers to write.
"Civic" refers
to citizens who collaborate for responsible freedom more than for the city,
state, nation, or other institution.
A personal paraphrase of
the June 21, 1788 preamble, the USA Constitution’s most neglected legal
statement: Willing citizens of nine
of the thirteen United States commit-to and trust-in the purpose and goals
stated herein --- integrity, justice, collaboration, defense, prosperity,
liberty, and the children --- and to cultivate limited USA services to us and
our states. I want to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase,
yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.
Today’s thought
May 26 (1 Samuel
3:9 CJB)
“So ‘Eli said to Sh’mu’el, “Go, and lie
down. If you are called again, say, ‘Speak, Adonai; your servant is
listening.’ Sh’mu’el went and lay down in his place. Adonai came and
stood, then spoke as at the other times: “Sh’mu’el! Sh’mu’el!” Then Sh’mu’el
said, “Speak; your servant is listening.” Adonai said to Sh’mu’el,
“Look! I am going to do something in Isra’el that will make both ears of
everyone who hears about it tingle.”
Christopher Simon used that passage
to express his opinion, but I doubt it’s wise to tell the Lord to speak: better
to simply listen.
Columns
Leave it to a
desperate writer to come up with “make America virtuous again” (Richard Cohen)
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/for-democrats-2020-should-be-about-one-thing/2018/05/28/ba263962-628c-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html?utm_term=.43ce82376b85)
“None of the [17 talked about Democratic] candidates . . .
vowed simply to make America virtuous again.” (Is that writer's hubris
or common folly?)
“Trump’s real damage is simply existential — he exists [and]
the Democratic field lacks a giant-killer.”
With 229 years of factional-Christian-political-partnerships
(Chapter XI Machiavellianism now practiced as American Judeo-Christianity),
America has been neither great nor virtuous.
We the People of the United States may demand a political
regime that aborted rationalism, religion, and American racism in favor of
widespread integrity. A majority civic citizens may practice the integrity to
discover and utilize the-objective-truth in civic morality (human justice).
When dissident, un-civic citizens experience laws based on the-objective-truth
rather than dominant opinion, America will become great at last.
Posted online through facebook.
When someone
proposes revival in Baton Rouge, they cannot be proposing civic morality (Terry
Robinson for Devin O’Neal) (http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/faith/article_24358eee-5edb-11e8-a73d-43f049a2c631.html)
"The
body of Christ . . . is the only one that has the power to even have a moral
effect."
For
4,000 years tribes have been claiming they were the chosen group. The Church,
1700 years ago, canonized the Holy Bible, with claims that the chosen tribe
must join Christianity. However, the era when the gross errors of the
canonization can be hidden from the public are over. The-objective-truth exists
and humankind works to discover it then acquire the evidence to show how to
best use the discovery.
For
example, gathering to pray for protection from germs is not prudent; https://www.biblestudytools.com/cjb/james/5-14.html.
Let both Robinson and O’Neal find a place to practice Bible advice to slaves: https://www.biblestudytools.com/cjb/ephesians/6-5.html,
but I’ll have no part in their folly. And let them practice the family hate in https://www.biblestudytools.com/cjb/ephesians/6-5.html
or accuse non-Christians of hate in https://www.bible.com/bible/111/JHN.15.18-23.niv,
especially v 23.
I
encourage Baton Rouge citizens and all people to consider some revolutionary
thinking that emerged from five years collaborative work by about sixty people
in EBRP library meetings.
First,
every human is so amazing that it takes about three decades to acquire the
basic understanding and intent to live a full human lifetime. Each newborn has
the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority
(IPEA) to develop integrity to his or her person. Integrity is living that full
human life but with increasing understanding. If so, he or she may accept: Fidelity to the-objective-truth is prudent and
extends to fidelity to other people. If so, he or she manages the lesser
powers, energies, and authorities: appetites (banality), societies such as
religion (coercion), and government (force). Only the last, force, can occupy the
person’s body and test the mind, but even government cannot overthrow the
person’s authority.
Second,
human justice comes only from the people who accept IPEA and use it to develop
integrity. In other words, some people use their IPEA to develop infidelity.
Therefore, there must be statutory justice, which is based on
the-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion such as O’Neal would like to
control through his “body of Christ.” Statutory justice is essential to
convince individuals who employ their IPEA for crime and worse to reform: Their
IPEA is equally capable of defeating dominant opinion as citizens who use their
IPEA to develop integrity.
We
do not live 300 years ago, when traditional writers such as Adam Smith, John
Locke, James Madison, and so many others developed the integrity-excluding theory
that human justice comes from either religion or reason. Nowadays, we have theologians
like Cornel West who preach African-American Christianity, whatever he means by
it. Four-hundred years of exclusion of integrity is wrong: Human morality comes
from the people who accept their IPEA and choose to develop integrity.
It
is time to put Christian hate-revivals in the trash bin of obsolete ideas, at
least in Baton Rouge, where a better idea abounds.
News
Indoctrination in
racism (Staff reports) (http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_8f44d788-65e5-11e8-b5b0-e3718a3fa4d0.html)
Maxine Crump was my YWCA-assigned indoctrinator. I recall one of my
comments: The LSU student could have looked around and thought, “I am a person
and LSU student,” rather than “I am the only black in the class.” Crump
"corrected" my comments throughout the “dialogues.” I walked out at
the end of the six-week course rather than attend a celebration with the class
and her. Descendants of plantation owners may feel white-privilege guilt, but I
do not.
My mom and dad were East Tennessee Southern Baptists, Dad a
Mason and Mom an Eastern Star. They did not teach racism, but subscribed to something
worse, in my opinion.
As a boy, I had a neighborhood route for throwing newspapers. My
first daily delivery was at a home on Rose Avenue owned by the only black
family on my route. When I quit for a better job, Mr. Thomas said, “I hate to
see this event; you’ve been the best on the block,” I recall in apolitical
appreciation. During my career, when a boss criticized me, Thomas flash-back
motivated me to respond. My most memorable comeback was, “What you call “too
sensitive,” I count as “acutely aware.” The boss changed his mind and the
written evaluation. Thank you, Mr. Thomas.
Racist organizations are into the “check cashing” portion of MLK,
Jr’s “dream speech.” It seems Crump’s group seeks $1 billiion; https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/01/16/__trashed-2/?utm_term=.6a5bcefb1f0c.
Racism is not unlike religion. I dropped out of mom and dad’s
religion, because its erroneous Great Commission urges believers to approach
people and express this psychological violence: You have a soul, and since you are not a
disciple of Christ your soul is eternally damned.
In the same way dialogues on racism makes a similar, erroneous,
psychological attack: You are guilty of privilege.
To these kinds of impositions, Billy Joel gives us the lyrics:
“I don't care what you say anymore
this is my life
Go ahead with your own life leave me alone
Go ahead with your own life leave me alone
I never said you had to offer me
a second chance
I never said I was a victim of circumstance
I still belong
Don't get me wrong
And you can speak your mind
But not on my time.”
I never said I was a victim of circumstance
I still belong
Don't get me wrong
And you can speak your mind
But not on my time.”
I work and hope for most citizens to turn to the civic agreement
that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA. It is a civic,
legal contract: We the People of the
United States changed the 13-state confederation into the 9-state USA on June
21, 1788. The USA began operations on March 4, 1789, with 10 states, 3 states
still free and independent and dissident to the USA.
The preamble is neutral to responsible social associations such
as religions and does not discriminate on racial characteristics such as skin
color. The preamble divides citizens into two factions: people who are willing
to collaborate for human justice and dissidents.
Crump, like every human being, has the individual power, the
individual energy and the individual authority (IPEA) to establish integrity
rather than conflict for dominant opinion. It seems to me her non-profit is
un-civic as well as dissident to human justice as well as to the agreement
offered in the preamble. I collaborate to oppose racism and other forms of
psychological violence. A civic people authorize the police to uphold the law
rather than appease dissidents against human justice.
Baton Rouge citizens may use IPEA to establish a majority
collaboration for civic morality founded on integrity rather than racism,
religion, or reason. Integrity begins with the work to discover
the-objective-truth, gather the evidence for how to benefit from the discovery,
and behave accordingly.
Mayor Broome
promotes an un-American social community (Lea Skene) (http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_d0150294-6458-11e8-a63f-03d216c00d40.html
perhaps moved to https://www.facebook.com/theadvocatebr/posts/10158151762412524)
It is not at all difficult to explain my preamble-stupidity: It is not easy to overcome indoctrination by
political regimes. Only in the last couple weeks have I realized that the
preamble to the constitution for the USA is its first legal statement. Bear
with me to understand my point.
This country was first invaded perhaps 15,000 years ago, explored
in the NE by Leif Erikson a thousand years ago, discovered by Western Europe
500 years ago, and colonized 400 years ago.
In 1763 (255 years ago), British colonists realized the eastern
seaboard was tyrannized by England, and in 1774, farmers in Massachusetts
liberated Worcester, literally removing the British from their offices and
homes---kicking them out. Delegates from the colonies met, changed their titles
to states in a confederation, and wrote state constitutions. France, already at
war with England, joined the American Revolutionary War, and in 1884, thirteen
free and independent states signed the 1783 Treaty of Paris. They tried to
continue operating as a confederation of states under adaptations of
Blackstone, British Common law, but could not. Therefore, they created a
nation, predicated on management by the people in their states rather than the
states. For the first time in the world, a nation would serve the people in
their states!!!
As a result, citizenship in the USA offers an agreement, which I
paraphrase: We the People of the United States, wanting the civic contract
stated herein, hereby establish and maintain a limited nation called the USA.
The preamble accomplishes three legal acts. First, it replaces the
confederation of states with a nation. Second, it specifies the purpose and
aims of willing citizens, leaving the unwilling and rebels as dissidents.
Third, it terminates Blackstone to develop American law. Some political regimes
resist terminating Blackstone. Civic citizens trust-in and commit-to the
preamble, maintain its statutory laws and institutions, and encourage dissidents
and rebels to reform.
Civic citizens recognize dissidents by consequences of their
behaviors. Civic citizens continually improve statutory law so as to encourage
dissidents to reform before ruin occurs. I like a 1965 statement by W. F.
Buckley, Jr. that the allies fought the evil of Nazi Germany for Germans as
well as for the rest of the world. In the same way, Baton Rouge civic citizens
provide and support police to constrain the evil of Mayor Broome’s vigilante community
for the citizens there.
Every human has the individual power, the individual energy, and
the individual authority (IPEA) to develop integrity. I doubt Mayor Broome
accepts IPEA, let alone chooses integrity. I doubt she understands the
preamble. I hope she reforms for the sake of her community and Baton Rouge.
Integrity is not a customary goal. I was indoctrinated to think
I could count on my personal god to keep government virtuous; (faith would
constrain reason). But in these parts, gods and political factions partner,
ruining the individual’s chance to live a human life. I want to change that, by
encouraging people to accept their IPEA and choose to develop integrity, a
practice that leads to comprehensive fidelity to the-objective-truth.
It is awful for the mayor to turn her back on a vigilante
community in order to punish the police.
To Michael Justice: I read my post,
note that the facts can be easily confirmed, and guess you wondered what I
meant by "integrity."
Neither Google’s social-democracy definition of “integrity”
nor Mirriam-Webster’s collective usages touches the practice of integrity. The
elements I include today are:
1. Do the work to comprehend the-objective-truth. Is the
concern an actual reality or a mirage?
2. Then do the work to understand how to benefit from
the-objective-truth. With no evidence, admit to
your person, “I don’t know.”
3. Behave so as to benefit rather than to nourish bad
habits: Practice fidelity.
4. Publically express the understanding.
5. Listen to public response so as to increase
understanding---perhaps your own.
6. Remain open minded to future discovery that changes
understanding.
Honesty may omit understanding and thus fail integrity.
The-objective-truth exists and can only be discovered.
I hope this helps you, Mayor Broome, and her vigilante
community. That's the community that polices itself until they need someone to
rush in, cleanup the spent bullet casings and other consequences often
including bodies, and listen to "no one knows what happened and who caused
it."
Un-American
social democrat (Elizabeth Crisp) (http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/multimedia/photos/collection_0fb960ae-6100-11e8-a80a-73cf8a74f27f.html)
To Scuddy
LeBlanc:
In addition, Edwards caters to Together Baton Rouge, that proud
"part of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), the nation’s oldest and
largest broad-based organizing network" founded by Chicago's Saul Alinsky,
perhaps Christianity's premier radical in the 1960's; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Areas_Foundation.
We’ll see how African-American
Christianity, whatever that means to believers (https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-kings-radical-biblical-vision-1522970778),
fares in England.
Prodigy legacy (Emma
Discher) (http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/multimedia/photos/collection_0fb960ae-6100-11e8-a80a-73cf8a74f27f.html)
To Chad
Brunswick:
Elijah Precciely’s book is worthy
of educators’ attention: coach children that they can do great things and that
they are appreciated. And his parents’ thoughts are worthy: help the child find
genius and nurture it. I hope K-12 educators will explore these two ideas if
they have not.
It is alright to interpret, but not wise to misquote
Einstein, who wrote, "Science without religion is lame, religion without
science is blind." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/may/12/peopleinscience.religion
. Perhaps someone fears the god, whatever it is, but Elijah Precciely will
discover the actual reality about Albert Einstein. If anyone has misled him, he
will not like it. Childhood trust is destroyed as infidelities unfold.
“Theory without practice is lame. Practice without theory is
blind,” may have come from Kant, but I couldn’t confirm it. John Shipman
claimed it; http://johnwshipman.blogspot.com/2012/11/.
Science is a study; physics and its branches is the object
of the study. The product of science is first discovery of the actual reality
and second understanding how to benefit.
Theory is a system of mutual accommodation of discoveries
within a branch of physics, for example, mathematics or biology. Theory can be
developed from discoveries but cannot be constructed by human intellect.
Following a human construct often results in the blind leading the blind.
Wandering from Einstein’s quote, even following Kant, seems erroneous.
Every human has the individual power, the individual energy,
and the individual authority to develop integrity. Few do so, but those who do
may develop fidelity to the-objective-truth and appreciate people.
I don’t know the-objective-truth, so comments would be
welcomed.
Power of love
sermon (Episcopalian Michael Curry) (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/20/612798691/bishop-michael-currys-royal-wedding-sermon-full-text-of-the-power-of-love)
Every human has
the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority
(IPEA) to develop integrity.
As a basis for
civic morality, appreciation is far more effective than love. In civic
connections and transactions love is often overboard, even unwanted. In a civic
culture---which includes some dissidents, from the ignorant to the criminal to
the evil---most individuals choose to collaborate for private liberty with
civic morality; for mutual, comprehensive safety and security; for justice; for
individual happiness rather than someone else’s intentions. Some individuals
take the IPEA opportunity to develop integrity to the-objective-truth. The
opportunity is for the people living here and now rather than for the people at
the end of eternity. Religion has no public, only private, standing in a civic
culture; religion is an adult, private practice.
Integrity
requires the work to understand the-objective truth, to understand how to
benefit, to continuously behave that way, to publicly express the
understanding, and to remain open minded to new discovery that would require
amending the understanding of the-objective-truth. Thus, integrity far exceeds
honesty. Honesty is often akin to pretense.
The person who
pursues integrity begins to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth, and when
asked about what he or she does not know, answers, “I do not know.” For
example, if asked, which does God prefer: love or appreciation? A human could
answer “I do not know.” On the other hand, a person may honestly say,
“Christian scripture claims that God is love,” obfuscating controversy such as
preference for appreciation. For an individual, new or ancient, to pretend to
define God is arrogance, and reference to that arrogance is folly; perhaps the
god rejects the individual’s definition.
Quoting others
as self-expression has a purpose. The practice leaves two degrees of doubt. Why
did the speaker reference the quote, and what did the quote’s author intend to
express? To represent Jesus, a speaker could choose “hate” passages like Luke
14:26 (hate toward family and self) or John 15:18-23 (hate toward non-Christians).
I do not pretend to know the correct interpretations of those passages. Such
passages never seem appropriate in civic settings, much less for a royal
wedding in a Canterbury-Protestant nation. Perhaps England’s is the oldest
continuous culture on earth, arguably 3600 years old, and its church-state
partnership is at least 800 years old. But some passages just need to be kept
private.
I leave it to
Curry to correct me, but what I read in his sermon is African-American
Christianity. According to Jeremiah Wright, white church is responsible for
this divisive phrase, but I never imagined his argument would extend to the
world. I thought he, like Barack Obama, held that slavery was America’s
original sin rather than Catholicism’s and Protestantism’s sin. Reference to
fire reminded me of James Baldwin, who pitied the white man. Quoting Martin
Luther King, Jr. reminds me of check-cashing. Africa is not the only continent
that practiced slavery: everyone may choose to move past that grim history.
In an era when
both the pope and the archbishop are troubled by systematic sexual abuse by the
clergy, it is a bit much to imagine global resolution of Christianity’s
internal conflicts through African-American Christianity. And don’t overlook
Ireland’s 2/3 vote for civic morality regarding a woman’s decision not to
remain pregnant.
In scholarly
debates about civic morality---based on reason or based on faith---inclusion of
integrity might help.
Other fora
Andrea Petersen, “The
Overprotected American Child,” WSJ, June 2-3, 2018; https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-overprotected-american-child-1527865038
The age range 9-10
seems indicated as typical for the autonomy to venture into the community
responsibly alone; that is, well informed for self-escorting.
Promotion is at https://letgrow.org/
and the older www.freerangekids.com/.
Also, see https://www.aap.org/en-us/Pages/Default.aspx
and https://www.familyeducation.com/.
I like https://www.rosemond.com/columns.html.
I promote
a legal statement that has been repressed since June 21, 1788 and oppose
erroneous claims from before 1700 years ago. Education, as debated in this
post, has the wrong interests: “the development of human capital and
signaling,” for employers, rather than serving the human individual.
The preamble to the 1787 constitution legally asserts that “We the People of the United States” manage the USA, and the people of nine states effected the change from a confederation of states on June 21, 1788.
Also, Abraham Lincoln refuted all imaginary controls of human justice in his first inaugural address: “Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.” In other words, military power rules human disputes. I blame Lincoln for not clarifying his expectation that the military power of the North’s then 27 states would defeat the weakness of the then 7 states of the CSA.
Christian ministers in both the North and the South prayed with confidence that their factional god would reward their interpretations of the Holy Bible, with its 1700 year old approval of slave-master relationships. But the greater harm of the Holy Bible is its assertion that human individuals are evil and will suffer the consequences unless they submit a constructed uncertainty of their afterdeath to a mysterious, personal god. Neither a just government nor a civic people would encourage speculative doctrine of human evil: Children should know their nation appreciates them and believes they may develop integrity.
The military might of the North, whose people had agreed with Frederick Douglass that slavery was alright for everyone but the individual human, illustrates that personal gods do not follow human demands. The consequences of trusting the mystery of god to influence individual human powers is observable, again, in 2018 with both the pope and the archbishop of Canterbury struggling with sexual abuse by the clergy, bishops, cardinals, and beyond.
The preamble to the constitution for the USA offers overt division of citizens between those who adopt the goals stated therein and both dissidents and rebels. The preamble is a civic rather than secular agreement: It leaves pursuit of any comforts and hopes the believers perceive in a religion to the adult individual rather than the civic culture. Religious institutions seem required to maintain fidelity to statutory law, but in the USA, law enforcement in religious offenses is doubtful, as in priestly pedophilia.
The durations of both racial slavery and sexual slavery invite the articulation I share: Every human has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (IPEA) to develop integrity. I call it an articulation, because Phil Beaver does not know the-objective-truth.
With this articulation, the purpose of We the People of the United States may be to develop a way of living that does not repress the individual’s pursuit of (IPEA) and the possibility to use it to develop integrity. If the person makes that choice, he or she will be encouraged by actual reality to behave with comprehensive fidelity. It begins with fidelity to the-objective-truth, which exists and may be discovered.
Some individuals choose dissidence, rebellion, crime, evil, and worse rather than integrity and fidelity. Yet those individuals have their IPEA. Therefore, statutory law and law enforcement must develop integrity. In other words, dissident individuals are too smart to accept opinion, such as Christianity, as the basis of law: The-objective-truth is required.
Likewise, the education system must develop integrity rather than “schools and colleges to train our workers,” quoting President Obama’s second inaugural speech.
The USA can have a civic culture by publicly promoting the preamble, the first legal statement in the constitution for the USA and keeping interpretations of the Holy Bible as adult, private interests. The nation’s education system may serve the student’s possibility of both discovering IPEA and, moreover, using it to develop integrity rather than either dissidence or rebellion against human justice.
To
Kevin Hardwick: I
especially appreciate the introduction to McCloskey who has described herself
as a “literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive
Episcopalian, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man. Not
‘conservative’! I’m a Christian libertarian”;
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirdre_McCloskey.
I write and work to create an education system
that appreciates the individual and encourages him or her to accept the
individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (IPEA) to
develop integrity from the moment of personal autonomy until their body, mind,
and individual stop functioning. The education culture serves the citizen
rather than the business community, and the economy thrives on human integrity
rather than capitalism, empathy or any other emotionalism.
It seems to me Locke, Winthrop, Jefferson,
Madison, Lincoln, and Coolidge wanted citizens to conform to a society. I want
a government to offer mutual, comprehensive safety and security so that willing
citizens may responsibly pursue the happiness they perceive rather than the
dictates of a someone’s god or political theory. Dissidents to human justice
may be encouraged, by example, to join the civic culture.
Educated people who disagree with me abound. Many scholars
write about establishing the moral life and debate whether the basis is reason
or religion. I respond that neither reason nor religion conforms to integrity.
Humans pursue integrity by discovering
the-objective-truth, learning how to benefit from the discovery, behaving so as
to benefit, publicly sharing the practice so as to listen to civic
collaboration, and remaining open to new discovery that would change the
behavior.
I think the silence is strategic. Some people want
to apply IPEA for civil power rather than integrity.
A
couple decades ago, I told my friend Doug Johnson that I’d rather be self
reliant than to join a society, or something like that. He said, “That makes
you a small fish in a big pond.” I responded, “I want to be a minnow in the
oceans.” I have the date and details of that conversation written somewhere
that is accessible.
Now, I
am collaborating to improve the statement: Each human has the individual power,
the individual energy, and the individual authority (IPEA) to develop
integrity.
I could
not have written that articulation (I don’t know if it is the-objective-truth)
as a big fish in a small pond and am certain I could not have written it I did
not listen to MWW (my wonderful wife). She uses her IPEA to develop integrity.
Science is a study wherein the researcher has the intent to
discover. Work without intent is lame, intent without work is blind.
Abraham (Rami) Levin commented on your answer
"Unfortunately, American law protects religion, an institution, rather
than integrity, a human opp...":
I'm failing to understand what you
are complaining about. Why is hiring ministers unconstitutional? They are not
demanding anyone follow a particular religion. It's just merely a service that
the majority of them would like provided.
Phil’s
reply: It’s a claim more than complaint, and I sincerely want the First
Amendment amended to promote integrity (an individual human opportunity) rather
than religion (business institutions).
We the
People of the United States did not hire ministers. The First Congress, seated
on March 4, 1789, hired factional Protestant ministers by May, 1789, for
legislator’s benefit: appearance of divinity; to mimic England. Even today, a
fraction of Parliament represents Canterbury or the seat of the English Church.
The US
Supreme Court, in Greece vs Galloway (2014), says Phil Beaver is niggling to
complain about legislative prayer. Those nine oppressors say they allow me to
remain silent or leave the room during legislative prayer! I started writing to
change this tyranny in a 1999 letter to the editor, “Let’s Revise the First
Amendment.”
The
legislators have not the integrity to face their pretense. I hope I answered
your question to me.
However,
I am interested in your statement “It's just merely a service that the majority
of them would like provided.” Whom is being served and who is “them”?
Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which
can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it
obviously does not work. Phil is agent for A Civic People of the United States,
a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com,
and consider essays from the latest and going back as far as you like.
