In this concluding article, I address another of the Constitution’s more serious “camels”—which Christians should be choking on instead of swallowing. Amendment 8’s Denunciation of Cruel and Unusual Punishments Amendment 8 prohibits cruel and unusual punishments. But what did the framers mean by “cruel and unusual”? No one knows because the framers never defined this […]
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Swallowing Camels… Pt. 10
Posted: 5th July 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Amendment 8, Bible's civil judgments, capital punishment, constitution, cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty, humanism, living document, righteous judgments, stoining, Supreme Court
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10 “Radical” Recommendations
Posted: 11th January 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Amendment 1, Amendment 2, Amendment 21, Amendment 8, Amendment 9, Article 1, Article 2, Article 6, Christian Constitutionalism, Christian tests, commandments statutes and judgments, constitution, cruel and unusual punishment, elections, firearms, First Amendment, First Commandment, freedom of religion, monotheism, of by and for Yahweh, polytheism, polytheistic, religious tests, rights, Second Amendment, supreme law of the land
Today’s blog was inspired by Allan Erickson’s post “Some Radical New Year Suggestions for Our Esteemed Leaders…” In it, he offered some excellent suggestions, but I propose that the following ten “radical” recommendations are far superior. #1: I propose the humanistic government of, by, and for the people be replaced with a government of, by, […]