Newdow: Courting Disaster
By J. James Estrada (12/05/07)
A note to Michael Newdow, the Sacramento atheist trying to remove the name of "God" from the Pledge of Allegiance and U.S. currency via the courts: When you reject God, you judge yourself unworthy of everlasting life.
Newdow will soon be back before the federal appeals court in San Francisco, where in 2002 he received a favorable ruling. He eventually was turned away on technical grounds by the U.S. Supreme Court in his first foray into taking "the name" out of the Pledge.
Should he succeed this time, and it is likely given the liberal make up of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, this will again end up with the Supreme Court. Once there, Newdow's argument should be roundly dismissed as an affront to legal precedent and historical record.
The mentioning of "God" does not constitute the establishment of religion. And if it does, every monument dedicated to the founding of this country will have to be scrubbed clean. Founding documents will have to redacted. Presidential libraries and U.S. Congressional records will likewise have to be sanitized of the offensive utterances to the Almighty.
Prayers that came from the lips (and recorded for posterity) of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and every other president this country has ever known, will have to be erased and forgotten forever.
The Gemini and Apollo programs, indeed, all of NASA's historical archives will have to retroactively restate its fondness for mentioning "the face of God" during its many leaps into space.
Nature itself speaks to the existence of a Creator. Are we to remove every tree, stop every brook and river, dam every ocean, destroy every wild flower, and bury under every meadow?
Newdow should live in peace knowing he has rejected the very words of God that are written on his heart (as it is with every human being) and did so after growing up in a country that acknowledges at every turn, and rightfully so, its thanks and dependence upon the Author of all Life and Blessings.
J. James Estrada
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