tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post8366633498211661290..comments2024-03-24T19:55:32.537-05:00Comments on The View from This Seat: Beware of ConstitutionolatryLKSeathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-68098137574106245672010-10-25T14:49:31.067-05:002010-10-25T14:49:31.067-05:00In looking more for information about Rev. Cousins...In looking more for information about Rev. Cousins, I found that his name was Solon Bolivar Cousins, Jr., (1885-1971), but still no relation that I could discover.LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-6146075971337416552010-10-25T14:36:53.324-05:002010-10-25T14:36:53.324-05:00David, thanks for your comments.
Fred Neiger and ...David, thanks for your comments.<br /><br />Fred Neiger and I are distant relatives. His great-grandfather Neiger and my grandmother Neiger's grandfather were the same person: Melchior Neiger, Sr.<br /><br />I don't know anything about Solomon Cousins, and I couldn't find out anything about him on the Internet, so I doubt that he is a relative.LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-21460905875183315122010-10-25T14:18:43.273-05:002010-10-25T14:18:43.273-05:00I think the true defenders of our Constitution are...I think the true defenders of our Constitution are those who vote. The people for whom it's written are the ones who must continue to ensure its a document in practice, not just theory.<br /><br />It's little wonder that Constitutionalatrists are those who see no separation between Church and State. <br /><br />Thank God we have our Constitution. I like freedom and liberty to much.<br /><br />Leroy, some of the surnames in your linage make me wonder if you're related to Fred Neiger (WJC classes of '39) and to former 2BC pastor Solomon B. Cousins.David M. Fulknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-343242960481285662010-10-25T10:47:10.623-05:002010-10-25T10:47:10.623-05:00Dr. Chris Sizemore, one of my local Thinking Frien...Dr. Chris Sizemore, one of my local Thinking Friends, sent me the following perceptive comments in an e-mail, and I post them here with his permission:<br /><br />"I don't think that it should surprise anyone that many of the 'Constituionolatrists' are also 'Bibliotrists.' I don't know if those are real words, but you get the drift. As you well know, the issue of slavery almost derailed the Constitution and the formation of the United States of America. As for women's rights, women were considered property in those early days."LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-19409299406233399222010-10-25T09:36:22.985-05:002010-10-25T09:36:22.985-05:00Just the compounding descriptors "fair and ba...Just the compounding descriptors "fair and balanced" prove how insufficient language has become in the age of information. The relativity of words has lost all sense of the prescriptive certainty that many of us were taught in school. Even the simplest words have been given multiple meanings by their rhetorical contexts. Those who decry the threats of postmodernism are blind to the reality in which they are enmeshed. They are more postmodern than they would ever realize.Rosanne Osbornehttp://testingtree.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-38446598715981802012010-10-25T09:05:35.504-05:002010-10-25T09:05:35.504-05:00Thanks, Greg, for your comments; they amplified th...Thanks, Greg, for your comments; they amplified the point of my posting well.LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-35973138475932747202010-10-25T08:44:05.785-05:002010-10-25T08:44:05.785-05:00I agree with this. In fact, being one who is only...I agree with this. In fact, being one who is only in the States once or twice a year now, when I come back, I can see changes more vividly than if I were living here all year. When I got here on the first day, I turned on the TV in my room and the channel was set to Fox News. I don't know who the person was that was speaking, but he used the discourse style of a televangelist, and was speaking of the divine inspiration of the Founding Fathers, the Christian roots of the Constitution, and how those who sought to maintain the separation of Church and State were destroying America. I was disturbed on many levels, but I never thought that I would have seen such programming on a channel that positions itself as fair and balanced.Gregory Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09356963573996529946noreply@blogger.com