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let's talk about the constitution i've have been really thinking about this for
all of this time that we've seen the constitution become the object of
basically fetishes
that it has become an object of dogmatic religion i mean but let's think about
the things about the comparison
and v
compare and contrast and like you and see how they are similar
the bible
and the constitution both are constantly misrepresented and misquoted
accidentally
and deliberately
to serve specific
political or moral agendas
both were written anytime
of slavery but signified nothing condemning slavery as we have pointed
out many many times conservatives now have made a habit of holding up the
constitution as some kind of final and ultimate arbiter of life and lost to a
level that really exceeds rationality which is something similar between the
constitution
and between in religious conservatives and the bible
in one of the country
is there's so much obsession
with a document
written hundreds of years ago
when any type of law is discussed having the time to are you aware of any similar
failed fetishes and that is taking place with an equivalent to a constitution
anywhere else
there is also a little bol diya justices scalia and thomas adhere to textual ism
an original is a man the waiting through the constitution
and that sort of like un analog of young earth creationism and taking
the scripture in this case the constitution literally
in terms of it being a completely absurd a way of interpreting at the pics what
they would criticize as the living constitution theory in quotes
is what i would refer to as an analog of people who e-mail catholics and jews and
all sorts of people who look at the gut the bible and they say oh boy you know
when it says the earth was created in seven days it's a metaphor it's not
literal and maybe we should reinterpreted based on what science has
now shown
and i think it's the same type of absurdity
lewis
i would not be surprised to hear to actually i mean i i understand the
constitution has become kind of a defacto religion
but and this may even exist and i'm sorry if i'm not aware of it an actual
religion based on the constitution
well that would involve uh... dat of some sort of right
by definition any father c_i_a_ backlit
uh...
that would be a scary thing because then you know we you will have uh... like he
said even more
misinterpretation
no question that i thought oh one thing out there is a term for this in academia
told the american civil religion as people look it up
uh... there's a wikipedia article about it's the idea that
in other words it gives the name toward describing the idea that there is some
kind of nine official civil religion using the constitution as as the
scripture
and the founding fathers as the d_a_'s if there had to be
a modern-day
had of that religion who would it be
would it be like sculley uh... wayne lapierre would it be wayne lapierre from
the n_r_a_ yahoo would it be
well here's where we should do we need to get on the ball here and we need to
form his religion ourselves as a non profit so that it is our interpretation
of
of the constitution that is attached to this religion