We all know what happened from there. The religious authorities took great offense at being questioned. They sent people out to quiz Jesus on the rules they made from scripture, and Jesus tossed revealing questions back at them. They could not answer him effectively because their hypocrisy in i...
As for Jesus, he is the crown prince of the demonic realm. That’s why the demons said, “Have you come here to torment us before the appointed time?” when he commanded them into the pigs. The demonic realm has a “timed” plan (whether it is real or imagined), and the demons k...
they have full access to whatever “news” they want to consume, and they have full access to the town square in various forms of social media. (And, no, for the purposes of this discussion, I’m not going anywhere near the debate about the First Amendment, or political or racial ...
Edmund Burke is a name that conservatives enjoy utilizing. Very few have read what he actually believed — why he supported the American War for Independence and viscerally opposed the French Revolution. The answer is rather simple: Americans were defending their natural born rights; the French wer...
The question before the Court was whether a township in New Jersey could, without violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, [tippy title=”192″ header=”off”]U.S. Const. amend. 1.[/tippy] tax its citizens for the costs of transporting children to church schools. [tippy...
I’ve given the whole thing here because it gives a bit more context. If you believe that Jesus was real and that the gospels are the story of his brief 33 years on earth (he really did pack a lot into those last 3 years), then the first quote from John above he said this as ...
It is usually interpreted as a limit on federal government power, rather than as an individual right, despite textual similarities with the United States of America’s first amendment (Adelaide Company of Jehovah’s Witness v Commonwealth 1943). Section 116 states: The Commonwealth shall not ...
law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws (14th Amendment, Sec. 1...
religious. However, the Second, Seventh, and Ninth United States courts have ruled that compelling inmates, parolees, and probationers to attend A.A. is unconstitutionally coercive and a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution (United States Ninth ...