Amendment Abolishing Slavery Missing from Trump's Bible
Trump's endorsed God Bless the USA Bible omits other key constitutional provisions
Sometimes, I just don’t know, honestly, and reading Pascal doesn’t help. Nor other more modern French theorists.
The God Bless the USA Bible that Trump endorsed and began selling for $59.99 a pop during Holy Week, packages the King James Version Bible along with the lyrics to God Bless the USA, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Pledge of Allegiance. As it turns out, Trump's Bible is missing some key pieces important to voters.
Multiple video reviews analyzed by MeidasTouch revealed that notably missing from the Constitution in Trump’s Bible are the amendments following the Bill of Rights which make up the Constitution's first 10 amendments. Trump's Bible jumps from the original Constitution to the Bill of Rights and then to the Pledge of Allegiance, skipping constitutional amendments 11-27.
Okay we ignore the damn French. Then you go to the Dutch.
In Religion as Make-Believe, Neil Van Leeuwen argues that factual beliefs (for example, that there’s beer in the fridge) differ greatly from “religious credences” (for example, that God is a trinity). Although people commonly say they “believe” the central doctrines of their religion, their attitudes are often closer to pretense. Hence, religion as “make-believe”.
According to Van Leeuwen, if you factually believe that there is beer in the fridge, your attitude normally has four functional features:
(1) It is involuntary. You can’t help but believe that there’s beer in the fridge upon looking there and seeing beer.
(2) It is vulnerable to evidence. If you later look in the fridge and discover no beer, your belief will vanish.
(3) It guides actions across the board. If the question of whether beer is in the fridge becomes relevant, you will tend to act in light of that belief.
(4) It provides the informational background governing other attitudes. For example, if you imagine a beer-loving guest opening the fridge, you will imagine them noticing the beer.
Religious credences, as Van Leeuwen characterizes them, have none of these features. If you “religiously creed” that God is a trinity, that attitude is:
(1) Voluntary. In some sense, you choose to have this religious credence.
(2) Invulnerable to evidence. Factual evidence, for example, scientific evidence concerning the origin of the universe, will not normally cause the credence to disappear.
(3) Guides actions only in limited contexts. Outside of specifically religious contexts, the credence has little influence on behavior.
(4) Doesn’t reliably govern other attitudes. You will not, for example, alter your understanding of logic in light of the trinity paradox.
Although some people may factually believe some religious doctrines, Van Leeuwen holds that commonly what religious people say they believe they instead religiously creed.
Donald Trump's "God Bless The USA Bible, which sells for $59.99 is missing constitutional amendments 11-27
Amendments 11 through 27 cover a range of rights as well as limitations:
Amendment 11 establishes judicial limits.
Amendment 12 outlines the process for electing the President and Vice President.
Amendment 13 abolishes slavery.
Amendment 14 describes the privileges of citizenship.
Amendment 15 states that the right to vote shall not be denied on account of race.
Amendment 16 gives Congress the power to collect income taxes.
Amendment 17 establishes the election of Senators by popular vote.
Amendment 18 prohibited the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors.
Amendment 19 states that the right to vote shall not be denied on account of sex.
Amendment 20 sets the beginning of congressional and presidential terms of office.
Amendment 21 repeals the eighteenth amendment.
Amendment 22 defines presidential term limits.
Amendment 23 gives presidential voting rights to the District of Columbia.
Amendment 24 states that the right to vote shall not be denied on account of any poll tax.
Amendment 25 delineates presidential succession.
Amendment 26 establishes the right to vote at age eighteen years or older.
Amendment 27 limits congressional pay increases.
Rama P. Coomaraswamy
Now the idea that it is a good thing to think for oneself is another modern superstition. To put the matter into clearer focus, I would ask you to imagine a class- room of mathematical students telling the teacher that they dis- agreed with his answers because they were doing mathematics “for themselves.” No, thinking for oneself is not a healthy thing to do. What we must do is learn, not to think for ourselves, but to think correctly. It is the function of the Ancient Teachings to help us do just that, but it takes both work and discipline. We do of course have the freedom to think for ourselves—we can think any way we want. But we do not have a right to do so, for error never has rights. Like murder: we are free to murder anyone we want, but we certainly do not have a right to do so.
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