On this Day in 1935...
David Weigel | August 20, 2007, 2:39pm
...
Ronald Ernest Paul was born in Greentree, Pennsylvania.
I don't see anything about it on the official
Paul campaign site (UPDATE: Nothing on the front page,
although there is an e-card), but you could while away many an hour with
reason's articles on the congressman and his presidential races.
- On August 13,
I reported from the ground as Paul's army crashed the Ames Straw Poll.
- On July 27,
Brian Doherty felt the pain of libertarians who worried about Paul making them look bad.
- On July 16,
Jesse Walker assessed what the Paul campaign meant for libertarians who were and weren't personally getting involved with it.
- On June 15,
Brian Doherty wondered whether Paul could appeal to angry Democrats.
- On May 25,
I speculated that Paul's controversial views would come into the foreground if he really started making waves.
- On May 21,
Cathy Young asked why Republicans were trying to keep Paul out of those scintillating presidential debates.
- On January 22
Brian Doherty had the first interview with Rep. Paul after word leaked about his possible '08 run.
Dig into the
reason archives and you'll find much more about the pre-campaign Paul. It's striking how much his profile has changed since just 2004 or so--the lonesome intellectual congressman who would get a few hat-tips here and on libertarian blogs is now drawing thousands of people to rallies.
Scott Allen | August 21, 2007, 7:58am | #
"I lost a lot of my faith in Ron Paul"
"Why? I am an evangelical atheist. The way I read it, the effect of Paul's Christmas argument isn't to impose religion, but to prevent the suppression of self-expression (religious and otherwise) in public places. Pete Stark isn't running, and I wouldn't vote for him if he did."
It is Ron Paul's view that "The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity." This sounds like utter paranoia. As an atheist, I wish someone had clued me in, to who these anti-religious elites are. I'd like to get on their mailing list.
Ron Paul states: "The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers."
Not true. Wikipedia states:"The phrase separation of church and state is generally traced to a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists, in which he referred to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution as creating a "wall of separation" between church and state."
Ron Paul goes on to say: "Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government’s hostility to religion." Really? How many times does the word "God" show up in the Constitution? I only count the word once in the Declaration of Independence. Our founders were mostly deists.
How can Ron Paul, who is probably the only Congressman to have read the Constitution, have gotten this so terribly wrong? And as President, what would he do to Christianize our nation?
