DEFINITION OF OXYMORON

SlowlySinking

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A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE DEFINITION OF OXYMORON EXAMPLE: <br /><br />"Oxymoron" - Removing the Ten Commandments from the courthouse while making people in court swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you GOD.....While your hand is on the BIBLE! <br /><br />DID YOU KNOW? 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! <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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! <br /><br />DID YOU KNOW? There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C. <br /><br />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." <br /><br />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". <br /><br />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. <br />DID YOU KNOW? Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies. <br /><br />DID YOU KNOW? Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law....an oligarchy...the rule of few over many. <br /><br />DID YOU KNOW? The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said, "Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers." How, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional? <br /> :eek:
 

Boomyal

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Re: DEFINITION OF OXYMORON

SS, you're swimming upstream. I doesn't matter any more. All that you have displayed for us is a figment of someones wild imagination and undoubtedly those inscriptions and practices will soon be gone. Right and wrong? Well there is no such thing as wrong anymore unless you are judging the ones that contend that there is. All those quotes and engravings were just, well, it happened like this:<br /><br />"Creative writers made God.<br />He perpetuates to this day.<br />If nobody had told you about him,<br />you wouldn't know about him. You <br />might have contrived your own version, <br />but you wouldn't know "your" God. His <br />message which seems to help many<br />will get passed down throughout the <br />ages as it has for so long, which seems<br />to help many. <br />Who made God?<br />I would suggest that God and Religion is a <br />figment of your imagination. Make the most<br />of it, and in moderation it can be a very <br />healthy compliment to your life."<br /><br />We are too many generations into this kind of thinking and they are gaining the upper hand. Let's just take hope that as God said to Abraham in Genesis 18, that he would not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah if he could find but five righteous men.
 

Elmer Fudge

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Re: DEFINITION OF OXYMORON

Let's just take hope that as God said to Abraham in Genesis 18, that he would not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah if he could find but five righteous men. <br /> <br /><br />Was that said to Abraham? or was it said to Lot?
 

clanton

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Re: DEFINITION OF OXYMORON

Abraham said suppose 10 should be found there, and the Lord said I will not destroy it for the sake of 10.
 

Boomyal

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Re: DEFINITION OF OXYMORON

EF, Abraham asked it of God. He started out at a higher number and worked it down to 5 with God's aggreement but 5 could not be found. So Poof!
 

nailbender2155

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Re: DEFINITION OF OXYMORON

well,,its right there in front of you if you will only look. where there is an abundance of christianity, there is progress. where there is no christianity or an abundance of other religions, there is no progress. those that try to subvert christianity are only attempting to subvert the human race to barbarism.
 
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