Reply #5: Okay "teacher", help me understand...

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How:

"the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven" can possibly be misinterpreted to avoid understanding the reference "our Lord" is to Jesus Christ.

I know this sounds like something from a fundie but without fundamentals, you wouldn't be able to post messages on this site via a computer designed and manufactured by engineers whose grasp of math fundamentals is essential. Fundamentals are the foundation of everything built upon them, be they about God or man.


Perhaps this is the same question but how could:

"the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven" mean anything other than 1787 anno Domini? (One definition of anno Domini I understand is stated: "In a specified year of the Christian era"...this, and more detail, including the latin root is at dictionary.com, not to mention less fundamentally based sites)


No comment regarding the leap of faith required to believe the writers of the Constitution "put the country itself on equal footing with some people's "Lord" at least in the measurement of time" for though I'm a student, I want to encourage faith. I feel obliged to caution about what one puts their faith in however for it is possible to put faith in lies and that, by definition, is the wrong path.


"The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man." - G.K. Chesterton; Chapter 19, What I Saw In America, 1922