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Silent H
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Message 13 of 14 (221097)
07-01-2005 5:23 AM
Reply to: Message 12 by crashfrog
06-30-2005 7:12 PM


I don't like the equivocation of "President" and "King." It's not even technically accurate. A king is not an executive; he's a legislator. His marshalls and sheriffs are executives.
That is exactly the problem I had when reading it, and usually have when the fundies start talking about how we are a Xian nation and that democracy is some gift from God we are spreading.
Democracy is that antithesis of everything in the Bible. It is about Kings and Kings of Kings, and the end result (they have the end goal right there in the Bible) is a Kingdom on earth, headed by someone who is not chosen (well, I guess he might be by those that aren't slaughtered beforehand).
President and King are not synonymous and the more they are joined in meaning, from any direction, there is danger.

holmes
"...what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.."(D. Bros)

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