Janice Rogers Brown joins the "Waaaah, we're soooo persecuted" crowd

[ck4829]

Attacks leveled at those of faith represent a great threat against America, a federal appeals court judge said at Harding University.

Judge Janice Rogers Brown, a member of the Silver Spring, Md., church, spoke on “Faith and Freedom” as part of Harding’s American Studies Institute lecture series.

“In my view, Christianity at its best is the foundation of reason and liberty,” said Brown, a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. “The true American religious tradition, the one that disciplines power, subjugating it to reason, truth and, ultimately, an all-powerful God, is not a threat to liberty but its best defender.”

Brown said those who attack the religious right “essentially argue (that) the true American religion demands acceptance of, indeed submission to, a common political vision — their vision.”

http://www.christianchronicle.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=653

"Waaah, waaah, we can't force people to convert and worship Bush! We can't put those sodomites in Guantanamo Bay! We are so persecuted! Waah Waaah!"

[formercia]

1. Law cannot be based on Faith.

Faith means different things to different people. It goes against the idea of religious freedom and tolerance.

[Bombtrack]

2. I'd like to hear Artie lange saying saying your last line

[Solly Mack]

3. Oh piffle

She's just another deranged Bushie

[LiberalFighter]

4. She should study the history of the United States

George Washington
"The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy."

"Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others."

John Adams
"The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity."

"Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects."

"As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?"

". . . Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind."

"History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose."

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."

"Religions are all alike, founded on fables and mythologies."

James Madison
"Democracy does not need the church, or the clergy."

"A just government, instituted to perpetuate liberty, does not need the clergy."

Benjamin Franklin
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."

Thomas Paine
"All national institutions of churches appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."

"Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! this is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!"

"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."

[orwell]

6. JRB...

...the definition of activist judge with her abrogation of Constitutional law.

Oh, that's right, she's a "conservative."

[DCKit]

5. One of us, one of us, gooble gobble, gooble gobble

If you ain't with us, you agin' us

[depakid]

7. Nice of the Dems to cave in and confirm her

I most appreciate the DINO's who gave us the likes of this woman for life....

[Lance_Boyle]

8. Christinsanity is the foundation of reason???

"True" American Christinsanity subjugates power to reason? WTF is this harpie smoking?

[Jack Rabbit]

9. Can you say projection?

Brown said those who attack the religious right “essentially argue (that) the true American religion demands acceptance of, indeed submission to, a common political vision — their vision.”