The Glade 4.0

Don't forget Queen Latifah!

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Those are ministers and priests. The question is not whether the clergy can hold office. Can the deity itself hold office? Could Odin be president? Could Shiva be president?

Put aside, for a moment, that humans could not actually stop such a being from ruling the country. Does the first amendment prohibition against passing laws respecting an establishment of religion also prevent a deity from serving as president, considering every bill signed would be a divine decree?

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I think its clear that neither Odin nor Shiva are natural born citizens.

A law wouldn't establish religion just because it was a divine decree. If Odin decreed that littering were punished by a $50 fine, that would not somehow become establishment of religion just because it was Odin. Odin also wouldn't be a natural-born citizen.

The First Amendment does not serve that purpose; its purpose is to prevent the Congress from passing laws that establish religion, not ones that happen to be favored for religious reasons (or for that matter, that are signed by divine presidential entities).

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I think they were both born in Hawaii before the long form birth certificate was used.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

As is Parson, for that matter.


I forgot which Messiah thread I was in.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades