Check out 'Power, Faith, and Fantasy, America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present' by Michael Oren. The Christian Zionists have been around a long time. They were called restorationists in the nineteenth century. The leaders included the distinguished professor of Hebrew at NYU: George Bush. (Yes, a forbearer and namesake of the contemporary two.)
I had an interesting discussion with an Anglican theologican a few weeks ago. He was talking about the schism of 1054 between the eastern and western Catholic churches. Since that time the Roman Catholics have successfully merged the Catholic, Christian, religion with Rome and Europe, i.e. the west. (The first sacking of Constantanpole was part of that effort.) But in fact what we now consider the eastern Orthodox churches, some of which are older then the Roman church, have a long rich non-European history. But due to the successful efforts of the Roman Catholics, all Christians are regarded as European.
One more article in the long list of the sins of Rome.
"On the one hand he made the correct point that if people have a constitutional right, that is the end of the story. You can’t take it away from them. "
Actually the First Amendment prohibits Government interference with speech. Private interference with speech is covered by criminal and civil law. No one has a 'right' to say whatever they want, when ever and where ever they want. The studio is private property, O'Reilly was there as a guest, he can be told to leave, and if he does not comply, the police will help the property owner remove him. The owners and agents of the network are completely free to not broadcast the show, to edit it for content, and to bleep out what they don't want broadcast. None of these actions involve government suppression of speech, as such, do not invoke any constitutional rights.
Ken,
Check out 'Power, Faith, and Fantasy, America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present' by Michael Oren. The Christian Zionists have been around a long time. They were called restorationists in the nineteenth century. The leaders included the distinguished professor of Hebrew at NYU: George Bush. (Yes, a forbearer and namesake of the contemporary two.)
I had an interesting discussion with an Anglican theologican a few weeks ago. He was talking about the schism of 1054 between the eastern and western Catholic churches. Since that time the Roman Catholics have successfully merged the Catholic, Christian, religion with Rome and Europe, i.e. the west. (The first sacking of Constantanpole was part of that effort.) But in fact what we now consider the eastern Orthodox churches, some of which are older then the Roman church, have a long rich non-European history. But due to the successful efforts of the Roman Catholics, all Christians are regarded as European.
One more article in the long list of the sins of Rome.
"On the one hand he made the correct point that if people have a constitutional right, that is the end of the story. You can’t take it away from them. "
Actually the First Amendment prohibits Government interference with speech. Private interference with speech is covered by criminal and civil law. No one has a 'right' to say whatever they want, when ever and where ever they want. The studio is private property, O'Reilly was there as a guest, he can be told to leave, and if he does not comply, the police will help the property owner remove him. The owners and agents of the network are completely free to not broadcast the show, to edit it for content, and to bleep out what they don't want broadcast. None of these actions involve government suppression of speech, as such, do not invoke any constitutional rights.