But we are talking about government structure, administration and processes, as well as social products, goods and services, whose transactions have consequences for life, liberty, justice, merci, and prosperity.

For example, if you go to the hospital for complicated surgery like a heart by-pass, you need both faith and thought -- FAITH that the surgeon will not make a mistake and kill you while you are unconscious under anaesthetic narcotics, and FAITH that you will be properly, safely and healthily revived for post-surgical care; and THOUGHT - that the surgeon had a good mind as a medical student, for residency, practice, experience and employment, so as to not only know what he is doing but to do it well, without endangering your life in the process.

Why are you exercising THOUGHT AND FAITH in the surgeon's skills, ability, honesty and integrity by "going under" while he operates on you? Because you are basing your behavior on trust while not being conscious of his own actions -- you have faith and trust you will live afterwards.
You are totally unconscious while he has complete freedom of action upon your person and body.

Thus, you are also hoping that there is a match or correspondence between your mind and his mind (good expectations from medical skills) and between your faith and his faith (your trust that he has confidence, trust and faith in his own capacity to operate on you successfully so that you will continue to live thereafter.)

So it is as explained above that I made this statement which you quoted: "The Universe and the planets - the Earth and all its numerous resources already exist. People, human beings already exist. It is people who make things work. "

Yes, gravity, rotation, revolution, sun-shining etc. . . go on as pre-programmed by our Creator from the beginning. But it takes miners to extract the metal ores from the depth of the earth for additional creative processing by other workers, from which we obtain iron and steel, for example. And, as in the example of the surgeon above, "It is people who make things work."

Thanks for commenting. I appreciate your participation.

By the way, my new book just got published. It's called STAR DEATH -- it is a science-based fiction regarding solar entropy. It is good speculative sci-fi reading. The book is published by WIPFandSTOCK.com publishers and is available immediately at their website. It is also available at Amazon.com and Barnes and Nobles.

Thanks again. God bless you. LEO

It's good speculative sci-fi reading whereby the scientific method is applied in situational events that demand appropriate preparedness and resolution, such as emergency response and space habitation by human beings.

Thanks for commenting. May God bless you.

LEO

STAR DEATH is also at Amazon.com.

Thanks for commenting.

With God's blessings. LEO

An amputee has a disability. This is not a perfect world. We each have "our own cross to carry," for two reasons -- 1) sin is in our members due to Adam/Eve's disobedience of God's will in Eden; and 2) the universe in which we live is entropic. Therefore, both spiritually and biologically, we are afflicted.

This is reality for both faithful believers in God and unbelieving atheists. Atheists cannot reject the laws of thermodynamics---conservation and entropy---so they refer to entropy and sin as "the intractable human nature," or "the human condition," other words conveying the same knowledge that human beings err, that they are not perfect, that they have frailties, imperfections, weaknesses etc . . . But the atheists are cynics who have no solutions at all, except man-based systems of thought that revolve in a circle due to the same imperfections of logic, thought and resolving finality--like a cat chasing its own tail! We are biologically mortal and we have a nature prone to error.

But we are not doomed.

God has already saved us, not only spiritually and morally, but also scientifically. He sent his son Jesus Christ to pardon us and show us the way to inner-peace, lawful liberty and constructive prosperity, while at the same time God imparted to us a portion of his own divine creative intelligence in that we have designed scientific solutions to most of the difficult problems of living, where the law of entropy affects mortal flesh, e.g. air conditioning, heat, planes, medical technology, agricultural production, home building, the free market, the free enterprise system, our representative form of self-government, inalienable individual rights, etc. . .

Jesus Christ himself, when he was on the earth performed many such miracles. God sent Christ to help us face and deal with Sin and the law of entropy. But even Christ, God's own Son, suffered as a man, enduring pain on the Cross, after which he died like a mortal man. In that, Christ fulfilled the laws of heaven and earth -- required punishment for sin is death, and human bodies are mortal due to entropy.

But he rose from the dead for he was also God.

However, in our times, many factors impact upon why individuals are healed or are not healed.

The first place to begin is for the afflicted person to develop a personal relationship with God; then read and understand and know God's Word in the Holy Bible; pray and worship often; and make his/her requests known to God.

And God himself will decide, in Christ Jesus, our resurrected Savior, by his Holy Spirit, on the right resolution for the problems.

Visit a church, talk to a pastor, attend worshipping services and make known to the congregation the desires of your heart to be healed. And let the afflicted persons talk to God personally in letting him know how they would like to deal with the problems and how they would like to see them resolved (Philippians 4:4-9.)

God bless you. Happy Thanksgiving.

And I take this opportunity to help you proclaim it all over America so that the godless leftist closet dictators can all know that we purpose and aim to enjoy the First Amendment's God-given inalienable rights which no mortal man can ever destroy or take away--secured and guaranteed eternal rights of all individuals.

God's gifts are eternal and never subject to revocation -- mortal man has no jurisdiction on this matter.

Thanks again for your forthrightness! Happy Thanksgiving!

The United States jis a big market of about 300 million people, a literate society with advanced technology. There are about 6.3 billion human beings on this planet with interests so rich and diverse that marketing a product becomes one of the most important ingredient in product distribution and sales.

And a business that is diversified, with a good marketing strategy that takes advantage of whole-world dimensions is apt to remain solvent and profitable through its operational life. And this requires a limitless vision of productive possibilities that cover a wide range of activities for which there is a human interest on the earth.

Happy Tanksgiving with God's blessings to you!

It is not a crime, nor is it illegal in America to have faith in God, and to prosper by legal means. The free enterprise system is a good framework for creative productivity, in that individuals can work hard to prosper in the free market of ideas, goods and services.

This individual right to produce and be rewarded for his or her own labor is fundamental to the respect for individual rights in a representative democracy where all have equal access to available legal avenues in their attempts to legally prosper. This nation is big enough for all individuals to attempt to lawfully succeed by the legal activities they choose to engage in.

This is America. Any one can succeed by being steadily persistent at trying to accomplish a good objective for which the free enterprise system, thanks to God, has already provided a constructive solution.

I have been writing for 20 years and continued to send out manuscripts to all sorts of publishers until, by God's grace, one accepted my book proposal.

You tell your writer-friends,-- and what they are doing is not illegal or criminal, -- to persist in their desire to get published and to have faith in God's goodness and his will for them that they should lawfully prosper; and believing this heartily, in faith, they eventually will prosper.

-Book DescriptionStar Death is a science-based fiction book depicting "sun death" as revealed by the Prophets and as depicted by the Apostle Peter in the Holy Bible. It also parallels scientific estimations of solar entropy as forecast by major astrophysicists who have pushed Relativity Theory to its applicable limits.
This book, based on real scientific theorization, is fresh in perspective and presents the laws of thermodynamics in a way never entertained before. The sun, reacting to inputs from the outer reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy, must therefore "negotiate" the "tugs of entropy"; it stretches its electromagnetic curtain to envelop the whole heliosphere into tumultuous radiation eruptions that extend even to the outer periphery of the solar system. Jupiter, Mercury, and the Earth convulse under tremendous pressures that impinge upon their mass and magnetic fields, respectively, to produce turbulence and perturbations uprooting the relative tranquility of the solar system.
On the Earth, there is life, human life. Gravi-metric processes become chaotic and erratic so as to disrupt the daily routine of productive life. With impending "star death" came the imperative necessity to create a permanent, safe, space habitation for the human family. As "sun death" affected the whole human species, countries undertook to cooperate internationally in order to alleviate human suffering in the light of the possible extinction of the family of Man.

Have a great thanksgiving in gratitude to God for all his blessings of health, long life and prosperity.

I would appreciate it if you would join into this great sci-fi interest by reading my book that has just been published.

It's called STAR DEATH and is available at wipfandstock.com. It will also be available at Amazon.com.

Thanks. God bless you! And God bless the United States of America, the greatest nation the world has ever known!

How come Hillary Clinton did not make it as the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party when she had clearly won the popular vote? You would cringe, rant and rave if you heard the real truth from me. You would no longer call it "psychoanalysis." Why did white liberal democrats want a "black president" first, before a white woman president?

Check this out! Were our white liberal students "white haters" because when they protested against the Vietnam War white-Johnson and white-Nixon were president, respectively? This would be illogical nonsense, wouldn't it?
Ridiculous? Were the Blacks who demonstrated in the streets for their civil rights all "white haters" as well?

One day soon a woman will become president--will every American male who criticizes her policies be accused of being "woman haters?"

One day a Hispanic American will be president who will have policies attracting opposition--will you then accuse every dissenting American of being "anti-Hispanic?"

Then an Asian American will be president etc . . .

You might as well "rewind the tape" and save it for those future times! Unless you come to your senses and recognize that public officials are not kings or nobles here -- that they will get criticized regardless of their gender, ethnicity or race.

O! You will accuse dissenters and critics of being "racist" only if these "minority" presidents are liberal leftist "democrats" like you? You would rather have the silence of the cemetary and the pollyannaish adulation of the graveyard in order that your atonement-candidate of choice succeed at all costs?

I don't see you advocate we should return all the lands we stole from the American Indians since 1492; but rather you engage in such hypocritical exercises as to adopt some of their "primitive" (your words) religious beliefs - like "trees have spirits" -- as if this would right all the wrongs they've suffered! Spin management! Yes, the so-called "new age religion" put together Hindu philosophy (cycle of life, reincarnation etc...)and American Indian religion in order to pretend all historical wrongs have been righted by simply engaging in some "window dressing" and "crowd pleasing" gyrations to which all liberals then subscribe. McDonald hamburgers are still pretty good, aren't they?

Political correctness is spiritual terrorism -only spin management while propped-up spinmeisters are making a lot of money by having liberals toe the line with your deceptions -- Al Gore has made 100 million dollars from "global warming" while millions of Americans are unemployed.

Your accusations are so spurious. Mark my words, one of these days you will complain that the White House should change its name to the "Black House," or to some other name in order to become more politically correct! Yes, it's going to happen because leftist liberals push their aberrant political ideology to ad absurdum conclusions that border on the edge on inanity.

It is not right to dehumanize people like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, or people who attended the "tea parties," just because they oppose the administration's policies. That's the American way -- free exercise of inalienable political free speech rights!

It is not right to disparage Fox news because it disagrees with administration policies. The news they broadcast is as real as CNN. Fox News then, is real news.

And CNN and other news organizations are no more real news than Fox News just because they agree with Obama's policies. In that sense, CNN, ABC and NBC might as well move their headquarters to the White House. The only reason administration officials praise CNN, is because CNN reporters don't devote time to critical analysis of their policies to the same extent they assaulted previous republican administrations; but rather, CNN, ABC and NBC spew out benign soporifics intended to sustain an unspoken agreement for adulation of the atonement-candidate-of-choice to which they mentally submit while fantasizing all of the American people should "park their brains" and just "pad themselves on the back" for having elected a "minority", or rather, "their minority" to the White House.

In a representative democracy based upon self-government where the people ELECT their public officials, things work differently in reality. Political criticism demonstrates a vibrant representative government where "government of the people, by the people and for the people" remains responsive to the real needs of We, the People!

Yes, conservatives say the court is "creating a right" because, the judicial power is granted to INTERPRET the Constitution and laws, however, the court has NO ORIGINAL JURISDICTION in declaring what a law is--only Congress does.

And this is in Article I of the Constitution, Section I, stating,

"All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Therefore, it is Congress that is empowered to make law, not the courts. The courts have jurisdiction AFTER the law is passed by Congress.

Even enforcement of a passed legislation is granted only to Congress, to enact more remedial legislation, and not to the Executive department, nor the Judicial branch.

The Executive branch cannot make law either, it can only obey the law, and make sure that the laws are properly administered or executed.

Look, for example, at Section 5 of the XIVth Amendment; it reads,

"The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."

So when one law is insufficient to correct a problem, Congress goes back to work to make another law --- not the courts, not the President.

That's the Constitution of the United States of America.

That means no test of candidates for non-religiosity. "Secular governance" implies the rejection of God, the prohibition of faith, and the abrogation of freedom of worship.

Because during the Founders' times, the king would require that appointed subjects believe in the "divine right of kings," for example; or that they believed as the king did, regarding treatment of the colonies, etc... in order to obtain favor from the crown.

To the contrary, Moat, when the Constitution says, "but no religious test shall ever be required," that is exactly what it means. Your "secular test" is a religious test for godlessness. That's unconstitutional.

The Founders did their utmost best to enumerate as many rights as they could, but since all could not be listed, Amendment IX states that OTHERS ARE RETAINED BY THE PEOPLE. For example, those other rights include the rights of parents to determine the direction of their children's education; the right to freedom of movement to travel with the means of your choice; the right to choose your place of residence or living space within the United States etc...

That's why, even in the Declaration of Independence, it is written, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that AMONG THESE are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness--that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." (Emphasis added).

So, among the many rights that we have, the Declaration listed "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." That means Founders understood we have other rights, too many to list. Now, come Amendment IX to explain other rights not listed are retained by the people of the United States, and Amendment X to state that we also retain powers we do not delegate to the federal government.

Amendment X states that though the Constitution grants enumerated powers to the federal government, other powers not delegated to it by the Constitution, and other powers not prohibited by the Constitution to the States, belong "to the States, respectively, or to the people."

So you see, it is the federal power that is so constricted as to prevent "remote control" tyranny from Washington DC.

If Founders listed all our rights, the Constitution would have been too long. Therefore, Amendments were carefully crafted for ratification to ensure that the federal government is kept within its proper sphere of administration, the Preamble to the Constitution listing the great themes with which the federal government is lawfully engaged, while individual citizens enjoy lawful liberty to pursue their constructive activities.

Result is that individual citizens are equipped with powers granted by the Constitution in both Amendments IX and X to the people and to the States, respectively, to defend, protect and preserve the national constitution, as well the American way of life, from misguided treaties and international encroachment; to secure as well the inviolability of American sovereignty.

Thus, American citizens are in a unique position to be able to "rescue" both the States and the federal government, in that a treaty can be legally prevented from becoming law, or it can be repealed by an act of Congress, with the States and the people enjoying judicial protection from the restrictions imposed upon federal courts as delineated in the XIth Amendment--whereby, for example, a citizen can sue a State for failing to uphold the security of religious rights and civil rights, even in light of a treaty federally approved by the President to which the State was compelled to abide.

Therefore, it is crucial that the treaty approval and ratification process be completely open for public input so that, not only must all the details be on the table, but also that all affected groups of the American people may have their views heard, including parents.

May God's Spirit enlighten your own spirit for self-discovery and liberating truth.

Religious faith is the fulfilment of all human yearnings for all the good they desire in living life as mortal beings.

Were it not for faith, belief and religious practice, there would not have been a United States of America. People are not perfect; as the Holy Bible says, our frame is dust. However, every human being possesses a sense of the transcendent, a need for the good to happen in life, a desire for beneficence, a search for good will. Who in their right minds would want evil for themselves- to be afflicted all their lives with pains, injustices, enslavements, tortures, torments etc...all their lives?

Well,nobody. That's exactly what God understands and why He sent Christ to fulfil these needs once and for all, for all time, and for all peoples. So that by living your life as a real believing Christian, your searches have happily ended - for God in Christ provides all the answers. No more dead-ended human philosophies that revolve in a circle without ever being able to result in the perfection of human flesh - which is not possible because flesh is sinful, weak, error-prone and proud.

But God in His benevolent wisdom and loving merci, provided a way for us to live, though in the flesh, but with akin-to-divine characteristics that make living on the earth a real enjoyable journey from conception, to birth, to growth, to maturity and to old age.

Without these needs fulfilled in the right way, Man is just a wandering soul, never finding a place of rest, never a peaceful contemplation, never a tranquil moment of blessed repose.

Yes, God is good. Seek to know Him. When God is present - you know you are not your circumstances, but that they are external to you, and that you were created to be greater than them, and that you can overcome them with God's help in Christ Jesus.

God bless you and God bless America.

Isn't America a great nation! Founders were motivated by heavenly principles for earthly causes the accomplishment of which would be so great as to touch the very shores of Eternity!

God bless the United States of America!

Your sense of humor intrigues me, especially at 5:13am US Central Time, when I have not slept a wink yet. But inspiration is flowing which is good.

The Constitution of the United States was ratified on September 17, 1787. However, the first ten amendments, Amendments I through X were ratified on December 15, 1791. Amendment XI was ratified on February 7, 1795.

The new nation had to begin operating and be recognized internationally in its own right. George Washington was elected in 1789, as the first American President,while the Amendments were being debated.

At the time of its ratification in 1787, the U.S. Constitution did not yet have a Bill of Rights. Founders were still working on it.

Many "anti-federalists" had objected to joining the Union if the Constitution did not include a Bill of Rights that would protect individuals against the abuses of government. For, fresh in their minds and memories, and on their bodies, were the wounds they received under British rule. Therefore, they desired guaranties that the new government would not follow that path.

And it is during the years 1787-1788 that Madison, Hamilton and Jay published the Federalist Papers under the name "Publius," in New York newspapers, debating the issues which would lead to framing the Amendments in order to preserve the Constitution as well as ensure the individual liberties of citizens.