tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419523342218712818.post1359050896718992412..comments2024-03-15T02:04:18.672-05:00Comments on My Pants: When will it END? STOP House Resolution 888!bullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12649812197402491992noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419523342218712818.post-15156535634870040402008-01-13T15:32:00.000-06:002008-01-13T15:32:00.000-06:00Yep, I sent my letter. It went like this...Dear R...Yep, I sent my letter. It went like this...<BR/><BR/>Dear Representative Maloney,<BR/><BR/>While I am certain my meager message is a drop in a veritable ocean of commentary, I was very much hoping a single letter might still stir your busy agenda to even more action.<BR/><BR/>I write to ask that you vehemently oppose House Resolution 888, sponsored by Representative James Forbes of Virginia, a resolution seeking the establishment of an American Religious History Week.<BR/><BR/>I am not so dim as to disacknowledge the importance and the near ever-presence of religious dogma, mores, and guidance in our nation's history despite the simultaneous championing of a supposed separation between church and state. Rather, I strongly feel much of the verbiage in the resolution undermines the very importance that a sometimes faith-driven government wishes to strengthen. That's to say that, yes, our government's originators and historical figures used guidance taught them through faith-based organization, but that if these historical examples somehow failed to instill everlasting reverence for almighty higher power, then those acts of women and men were clearly too small or too narrow to measure up to anything remotely omnipotent. We'd be pompous to think we might do better modern day.<BR/><BR/>True higher power, whatever shape that power might take, and therefore the faith in it, needs no acknowledgement from the government, no strengthening by humankind. If said power did need such acknowledgement or such strengthening, if it somehow would require or even smile upon a blatant trinket like an American Religious History Week, well then it would not be omnipotent at all and therefore undeserving of our faith.<BR/><BR/>I have to agree with secularists on this issue. To desire our government to constantly push for, fight for, and revamp religious presence anew in national institutions is an act that shows our personal faith to be weak, needing, and altogether unreal. I ask that you simply see and show this resolution for what it is.<BR/><BR/>Sincerely,<BR/>Pockets (only I used my real name)Pocketshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15848521756656735185noreply@blogger.com