Originally posted by Psychoblues
This is not comedy central. Are you telling me that you are not familiar with the "separation of church and state" premise upon which this country is founded and upon which we still stand today? Given the beliefs of a few of our founding fathers we'd all be quakers. A few more and we'd all be atheists. Are you familiar at all with those most important individual's beliefs and writings? I certainly don't intend to go back to History and American Politics 101 with you.
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Clipped for your reading pleasure!
By Sue Ella Deadwyler
David Barton authored a book we all need to read and keep as a reference. The title is Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion, first published in 1996. By 2002 it was in the second printing of the third edition. As the title indicates, it reveals the original intent of the U.S. Constitution and emphasizes that the Founding Fathers never intended for Christianity to be purged from public, political or private life. In fact, they explicitly warned that the form of government outlined in the Constitution could be maintained only in a society based on moral absolutes of the Scriptures.
The First Amendment says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." That's as clear as a bell. It simply prohibits Congress from intruding into our public or private religious freedom. It does not allow for its current application and misinterpretation that Christian expression and practice should be banished from the public.
The false notion of a "wall of separation of church and state" has been force-fed the public so long, that it's been accepted as truth. If this were Russia, it would be the truth, because that concept was in the constitution of the U.S.S.R. But, the United States has no constitutional prohibition against religious expression. However, since 1947, courts have misinterpreted the First Amendment and consistently pushed Christianity out of the public forum. Religious freedom had been legal for 150 years until the 1947 Emerson v. Board of Education Court decision stated, "The First Amendment has erected a wall of separation between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable." That wrong interpretation 56 years ago was the granddaddy of future court decisions that, until this day, continue the attack on Christianity, especially in schools and the work place.
