A happy thanksgiving to everybody along with these seminal words from the commander of the Continental Army, traditional father of our nation and first president of 2 terms. Good thing the ACLU wasn’t around then.
I did my best with the formatting though the alignment may still flip out a bit on lower screen resolutions.
http://gregnmary.gotdns.com:8080/index.php/topic,108.msg547.html#msg547
Happy Thanksgiving to you!
Beautiful speech. I can only imagine what it would be like giving thanks in 1789.
Silly dig about the ACLU. Mentioning God like that in a speech doesn’t violate anybody’s rights, I think. It was commonplace then; today it would be inflammatory; but that’s just a matter of changing culture. Civic religion is civic, which means that it works best when it represents citizens generally, and today such a speech wouldn’t work well at uniting citizens. Those of us who are believers (and maybe some who aren’t) can still find it moving.
There is no such thing as a silly dig against the ACLU. They would be all over this with it’s mention of God as much as it does. Awesome speech, you can see the difference between presidents then and now.
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
<<< today such a speech wouldn’t work well at uniting citizens. >>>[/quote]
Which is precisely why this decaying country is in the shape it’s in.
A quaint piece. Well spoken and eloquent. In substance a product of the times.
Thank heavens we’ve progressed since then. Washington would be proud of the promotion, knowledge and practice of [quote]“true religion and virtue”[/quote] so majestically exemplified in our society today.
I’m still laughing at the site you posted it on. I’m sorry, I never thought I would see your name on a site about gardening and especially with a place decorated like Easter and a sub-forum about kiddie projects. And do they know what your Alias means over there?
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
I’m still laughing at the site you posted it on. I’m sorry, I never thought I would see your name on a site about gardening and especially with a place decorated like Easter and a sub-forum about kiddie projects. And do they know what your Alias means over there?[/quote]
That site was built by me for my wife (kinda, more like an educational toy) and is running on a computer that is sitting at my feet right now. I use it to link stuff from because I have complete control over it and it gets me some free testing at the same time =]
Heck, I don’t know what Tiribulus means over here.
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
Heck, I don’t know what Tiribulus means over here.[/quote]
I guess all this time I never saw the first i and just thought it said Tribulus. I guess I don’t know what Tiribulus means either.
LOL! This came up a couple years ago when people were explaining what their online handles meant. T i r i b u l u s was the name of a ferocious untamable man eating lion in one of the Hanna Barbera Bible story cartoons my daughter used to like when she was little.
I adopted it like 10 years ago for online gaming When Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 were both new PC games. It became somewhat known throughout the enthusiast performance PC community at the time and I kept it for everything else. It has nothing whatever to do with the supplement though it’s understandable how that assumption could be made.