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2005 ASLaN
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The
Christmas Theology of
the Constitution
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In
this sad but familiar December ritual, many of these ill-intentioned
zealots
are found frantically unwrapping our Christmas traditions and claiming
that our
Founders would be horrified to learn that nativity scenes were erected
on
"Government" property (though such "property" belongs to
the PEOPLE). These propagandists go ballistic at the thought of mixing
history
– like the nativity of Jesus – with fantasy (their views of
history).
Like
their spiritual forefathers, the crazed and murderous Jacobins in the
French
Revolution, some would even like the calendar changed so that all
references to
Christ are obliterated. I don't know, perhaps they'd like to mark time
Anno
Darwinius? Before Marxus? De Plorable Ignoramus?
Well,
here's a tremendous, inspiring, historical and theological fact to
consider at
this holy and happy time of year: a fact one rarely sees mentioned by
commentators.
It
isn't Santa (He was still St. Nicholas back then anyway).
It
isn't the English transliteration of the Arabic name for God, Allah.
It
isn't, sorry George Harrison, Hare Krishna.
Sorry
Ted Turner, it isn't Ted Turner.
It
isn't even the titles Creator or Supreme Judge: those are in the
Declaration of
Independence.
Dan
Rather is not going to like this (so he'll just censor the news).
Some
of the Harvard faculty and several students at that esteemed mental
institution
are going to be very aggravated. (In case you missed it, Christmas
trees and
cr�ches were called "divisive" and nearly outlawed there this year.)
Drum
rolls please -- O do spread this news to your friends -- Praise God
from Whom
all Blessings flow, one of the greatest names of our birthday boy is in
the
United States Constitution!
I
kid you not. It's near the end, right after article Seven, and it says:
"Done
in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the
Seventeenth
Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
Eighty
seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the
Twelfth."
Don't
you just love it! The official, legal, Constitutional, orthodox
Christian
declaration "Year of our Lord" is at the foundation of our
world-famous system. Praise this "Lord" and pass the Bill of Rights.
Call
Nirvana and tell George Harrison, we don't have to imagine it, that
sweet name
"Lord" is right there in the Constitution (where you will NOT, by the
way, find any such words as "separation of Church and State").
Vladimir
Lenin and friends, take note: our forefathers gave us a lasting
Christmas gift
by using the same word that Isaiah used to describe Jesus. In Latin,
it's
Domini, in Greek, Kyrios, and in Hebrew JHVH, the Holy name of G-D!
Hey,
Harvard Divinity school (where the scourge of Arianism and Unitarianism
is
still the official unbelief), will you look at that! Our very
Constitution
implicitly affirms the Divinity of Jesus and the miraculous veritas of
the
Incarnation!
Quick,
somebody get Gabriel, he has a message for the A.C.L.U. this year – the
explicit, historical United States connection to the nativity is right
there in
the text! What? Are they now going to challenge the constitutionality
of the
Constitution?
Let
a thousand creche scenes bloom! For Christ the "Lord" was born for
us, and this most Founders knew and believed.
Sing
all ye captive children of the public schools – "Yes Jesus was born,
the Constitution tells me so."
So
next time an historically-challenged liberal lectures you about the
everlastingly secular nature of our nation, point out that official
government
four-letter word, Lord. They might get infuriated, but then again, they
might
end up coming to serve Him, just like George Washington and most
everyone who
signed the Constitution did.
Too
bad that in the year of Independence of the United States of America
the Two
Hundred and Fifth various militants are continuing to eradicate the
foundation
of our liberty by increasing their assaults on the God of the Bible,
while the
majority have the forced and unconstitutional paganization of our
public
institutions down our throats.
While
I still have the freedom to write without being told by some court to
stop
bringing up history in public, I'll end this by noting, with joy
(although our
calculations are off by a few years): written in the Year of our Lord,
Anno
Domini, 2005.
Felix
Navidad America!
And
a Happy, New, Year of our Lord Jesus 2006 to all!
Sinter
Knicker is
a poet, essayist, and teacher living in southern Maine.
He also founded
the International ASLaN Society, in Northern China, 1994.