Glenn Beck and his 912 Project

[pyat]

Speaking of Glenn Beck (who I'd not heard of before today), he sounds more and more like a dork. I refer you to his 912 Project, 9 Principles and 12 Values he says all Americans should live by.

Edit: Many of these are perfectly laudable principles, though some of them contradict each other, and coming from Glenn Beck many of the rest are horribly hypocritical.

Nine Principles
1. America Is Good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.

Don't #5 and #4 sort of conflict with each other? And I'm not sure the agnostic/Deist founding fathers would agree with #2 at all.

Comments

getting a little pedantic:

[lovmelovmycats.livejournal.com]

I think Thomas Jefferson was (famously?) a Deist, but most of the other founding fathers were at least churchgoers (as pillars of communities tended, and still tend, to be), which doesn't exactly guarantee that they were "good" Christians, or believing Christians- just that they were practicing Christians. I don't think ANY of them were remotely close to belief systems similar to today's American Evangelicals, though that type of beliver was around at the time. There were a lot of founding fathers.
I'm just a history buff, but I don't have a stake in whether or not most or all of the "fathers" were believers or atheists/agnostics. Who counts as a founding father, and who doesn't, anyway? Just the politicians in Philly? How about the revolutionaries in Boston?

Re: getting a little pedantic:

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, my note about tha agnostic and deist ones meant THOSE ones, whomever they were. :) I presume a lot of them were also at least nominally Christians.