Interesting...

My aunt sent this email to me with "America is great!" and as a precursor. For some odd reason I am the black sheep of the family as i am not patriotic (although i do have much pride about many American ideals...over the years my pessimism took over my optimism). Anyhow, as hubby calls it, i'm really the white sheep not the black sheep. I'm okay with all the jabbing i get during family visits, the making fun of my religion, my rituals etc. Just today i got a call from Mom that left me bummed out most of the day. I don't get them and they don't get me. But the emails and phone calls from family members just remind me more and more of why i am the way i am and how my mind got opened up instead of locked in one way of thinking and how glad i am for having the open mind i do and how merciful Allah has been to me for it. Anyhow, enough of my families closeted skeletons... here is the email:

DID YOU KNOW ALL THIS? I SURELY DIDN'T.

As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view ... it is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments!

DID YOU KNOW?

As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.

DID YOU KNOW?

As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!

DID YOU KNOW?

There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.

DID YOU KNOW?

James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our Constitution" made the following statement:

"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."

DID YOU KNOW?

Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said:

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".

DID YOU KNOW?

Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.

DID YOU KNOW?

Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies.

DID YOU KNOW?

Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law.

anoligarchy - the rule of few over many.

DID YOU KNOW?

The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said:

"Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers."

Tomorrow i will post another interesting piece...about the crusades...something i've really become interested in as of late since to me the US has been crusading for the sake of Christianity for centuries and still is. Isn't the desire to put McDonalds all over Europe, the invasion of Iraq and others, the constant demand of our government for all other countries to use our model of democracy and freedom as their model? The crusades never ended, they just became subliminal mind control using media and technology to control and shut up the masses. Anyhow...until then...i'm gonna go and try and get rid of this nasty spring cold i have caught. Not fun.