Faith

Have faith!  That is what they say.  We are told that Faith is the key to success and salvation.  All the self-help books in the world will tell you to visualize what you want.  See it in your mind’s eye and believe in it and it will happen.  I think these are intuitive instructions.  Most of us understand the relationship between a positive outlook and good feelings and it stands to reason that the more we work on those principles of positive thinking the better they work.  We experience it every day in our personal lives.  Sometimes it’s difficult to maintain a positive outlook but we try.

Most of us would agree that faith and self-confidence are basically the same thing.  If that is true then we are left with the assumption that we can gain the most faith if we are asked to believe in things that make sense to our God given ability to reason.

Belief in Biblical events would be more easily achieved if the scriptures were not encumbered with improbabilities.  I’m sure the tales of “Noah’s Ark” have some historical significance but in the context of a literal interpretation it doesn’t make common sense!  I feel the same way about Jonah and the Whale, it just doesn’t make sense!  Virgin births?  Maybe in some asexual life forms like bacteria, fungi, and some starfish, but not with humans.  It doesn’t make sense

All these things that don’t make sense undermine the credibility of all the scriptures and make it nearly impossible to develop biblical faith!  God made us and we are his reservoirs of faith, not a book that has been transcribed, interpreted, and mishandled by devious men for centuries.  Look within and have faith that God has given you the sensibilities to sort things out.  In the end, the Bible will also make more sense to you.

Weak Leaders

There is not a perfect Constitution.  All of them, including ours, are dependent on honest and trustworthy men and women if they are to survive, over time, the trials of men of devious character.  Our Constitution is not an entirely original document.  Much of its brilliance was handed down to our "Founding Fathers" who, with much thought and debate, shaped it into the extraordinary document that it is. 

Being a justice of “The Supreme Court” is a responsibility that should only be entrusted to those who can separate their personal philosophy from the duties of interpreting the Constitution of the United States.  Regarding the recent "Hobby Lobby" decision, the dissenting arguments by the female justices and the one male justice whose blood supply seems to contain more estrogen than testosterone, is proof that the ladies are not up to that responsibility.

Thomas Jefferson

 Thomas Jefferson said:  “On every question of construction [let us] carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted [and] recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was  passed.”

Kagan

Ginsburg

Sotomayor

Breyer

It is a noteworthy fact that three of the four dissenting opinions were from the only women on the bench!  I would like to remind Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Breyer that their task is not to interpret the Constitution to make it fit their own personal leanings, but to interpret it in the spirit of the original designers: the founding fathers.