Do you think the Constitution was "divinely inspired" as Arizona Speaker of the House, Rusty Bower d

[riversedge]

I do think his faith led Rusty to keep his oath of office. IMHO.




Do you think the Constitution was “divinely inspired” as Arizona Speaker of the House, Rusty Bower does.

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The Founders went to pains *not* to invoke any devine source for the right & ability to govern ourselves. The source was & is “We the People” without the grace or guidance of a diety. This point is covered very well in The Founding Myth by Andrew Seidel @AndrewLSeidel

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Deism and the Elightenment explains a lot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism

[AntiFascist]

29. I agree, in this sense it could be interpreted as divinely inspired...

but it is also a living document that required amendments, so the original document was certainly not perfect from the start. We are hopefully evolving toward a more perfect union without going backwards.

[Caliman73]

2. No. Written by intelligent but flawed men.

To claim it was "divinely inspired" you would first have to prove that something divine exists, then that the divine force chose to actively intervene.

The Constitution was novel in its idea of a representative Democracy in the age of absolute monarchy. It still suffered from the very human concepts of racism and sexism.

[MOMFUDSKI]

19. And there is that little thing called

SLAVERY. Divine my ass.

[Jerry2144]

3. No. It wasn't divinely inspired

There is no such thing as Devine anything (other than the lovely and talented Bette Midler). God is a creation of man.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

4. I'm glad that AZ Speaker Rusty Bowers did the right thing.

If he felt led to do the right thing by the religious faith that he's free to hold as a citizen of the United States, I have no problem with that.

Anti-religious bigotry flowing when a person has taken the right stand--and one that in this case went against his own political interests--is not a good look.

[inthewind21]

15. Anti religious bigotry?

Hysteria is not a good look.

[gratuitous]

16. I agree

One badly overlooked aspect of faith - by believers and non-believers alike - is that faith is supposed to make a person uncomfortable, it's supposed to challenge a person's preconceived notions.

[Thomas Hurt]

23. For a christian who thinks the Constitution is divinely inspired document...

He sure took a long time to come around and get a clue that Trump was up to no good.

Bowers' line that he wouldn't cross is all fine and good, but he knew there was corruption and amorality, pathological lying and deceit littered everywhere behind that line.

[rurallib]

5. methinks yon Rusty is about a bubble off plumb

[murielm99]

6. No. I don't believe that.

And I am a Christian.

The authority of the Constitution derives from the consent of the governed.

[Bucky]

7. Kinda like the way people say "Thank God I had my seatbelt on" after a wreck

There's some people see God's hand in all good turns of fortune. The worst is when folks say "God will not give any problems here not strong enough to handle" and out of politeness I don't respond "How do you translate that into Ethiopian?" because I'm not a complete asshole

[MerryBlooms]

8. No.

[H2O Man]

9. I suppose that depends

upon how one defines "divinely inspired." I would not agree in the conservative christian definition.

[Enoki33]

10. Defies all logic to believe it was divinely inspired.

[Torchlight]

11. I tend to believe it was inspired by Enlightenment thinking

by the Magna Carta, by the Virginia Declaration or Rights, by the English Bill of Rights and so on. The sharpest tip of that influencing spear being John Locke.

[VWolf]

21. Exactly. It was the culmination of centuries of the philosophy of governance,

combined with the diligent work of our founding fathers.

John Locke was the "social contract" guy, right?

[wryter2000]

12. If it was

God didn't love black people or women.

[NewHendoLib]

13. Hell no!

[Samrob]

14. I do not believe the framers thought that. Thus "No" nt

[Vinca]

17. I've always thought this was one of the dumbest ideas of the batshit insane.

Not only do they think the Constitution is divinely inspired, they believe Trump was sent by God to carry it out. Heaven forbid (my one Biblical reference) they should read about the founding of the country and the writing of the documents.

[Lars39]

18. I think his testimony was needed.

His biblical worldview was brought out in part because A., evangelicals of any stripe just can’t help but testify for their god, and B., he may have been trying to show the MAGATS that he was a man of god like them so that they would stop harassing him.

And no, the Constitution was not divinely inspired. These were men that rejected rule of a divinely chosen king.

[niyad]

20. Actually, our Constitution, and basic governing principles, were inspired, in part,

by the guiding principles of thr Haudenosaunee, the Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy.

[Midnight Writer]

22. Everything is divinely inspired.

[FreeState]

24. No but Mormons worship it like its the Book of Mormon

They are taught it is divinely inspired.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1992/02/the-divinely-inspired-constitution?lang=eng

[maxsolomon]

25. If so, Jehovah is pretty dumb.

Electoral College
3/5 Compromise
2nd Amendment
2 Senators/State

[asiliveandbreathe]

26. Ya sure, Rusty Bowers was divinely inspired to support a thrice married pos...cheater..

Grab em by the p.....y kinda guy...pompous and pitiful display of hypocracy....he even said, 20,000 illegal immigra ts..5000 dead...Rep. Adam Schiff came back with, so did they ever produce the evidence 20,000 illegal people..or 5000 dead people voted..? (People)..

As Jay Johnson explained, Bowers is all in with voter supression..I just can't stand hypocracy....

[Deep State Witch]

27. Depends on Which Deity

One basis for the U.S. Constitution was the democracy in ancient Athens, Greece. That was claimed to be divinely inspired by the Goddess Athena.

However, they are conflating the American "civil religion" with their own religion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. No

I do not share this belief.

[Higherarky]

30. In a word,

NO.