Monday, December 6, 1999 Editor: Gene Touchet ("Scriptures Should Be Applied as a Balm, Not as a Weapon," Sunday Opinion, December 5, 1999) will not tolerate the beliefs of Bible-believing Christians, and seeks to impose his Secularist values upon us. The Bible commands us to use it as a weapon against those who would destroy the moral fabric of society, repeatedly likening the Word of God to a sword (Hebrews 4:12; Revelation 19:15; Ephesians 6:17; Isaiah 11:4; Matthew 10:34). "Unfortunately," Mr. Touchet moralizes, "words such as wrong and sin" are too often used by Christians, which he says is wrong, if not sinfully contrary to "the Constitution, [which] gives each of us the right to believe or not to believe." But in the Constitutional Convention on Wednesday, August 22, 1787, George Mason, "The Father of the Bill of Rights," urged a constitutional prohibition on slavery, as being among those evils which
On March 23, 1798, President John Adams issued an official proclamation
In the midst of the Civil War, which he believed was one of those "national calamities" spoken of by Col. Mason, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed,
The voices of "tolerance" are those mocked by the Prophet Jeremiah: "They have healed the hurt of My people slightly, saying, 'Peace, peace!' when there is no peace." Sincerely,
Kevin Craig |