The most intolerant, close minded and judgemental people in the world are the very moonbats who can be heard wailing and gnashing their teeth anytime a christian openly practices their faith. After accusing christians of intolerance, close mindedness and being judgemental. As annoying as some christians can be, their greatest detractors are some of the most disgusting and repulsive psuedo-intellectual parasites on earth. We can only pray that liberals abort themselves out of existence in a generation.
Amen.
Let me guess. You're not of a mind to be exchanging Christmas cards with any ardent anti-religion liberals this year, eh? (please not the humor in this)
The thing that gets all messed up in this is the simple fact that the phrase, "separation of church and state" appears nowhere in either the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. It does not exist. So why do we constantly see and hear it? How did it come about when it does not exist in out supreme law of the land founding documents? For the same reason that the "takings" clause of the Fifth Amendment has been twisted and perverted. It serves an interest or agenda that what is not there, be there, or what is there is not.
The phrase, "separation of church and state" is a shortening of some text which appeared in a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Baptist Association of Danbury. This phraseology adoption was the product of Justice Hugo Black. Jefferson's intent was that of restriction of the federal government's potential desire to sanction any sort of state religion. The Founders, being excellent and highly knowledgeable students of history, knew well the dangers of mixing a state run religion with government and this was their reasoning behind the "establishment" clause portion of the First Amendment. There is nothing in this segment which restricts and controls what schools or firehouses or court houses or anything of the sort can and cannot do in regards to religious practices. Quite the contrary;
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"
It clearly and concisely states that "Congress shall make no law..." and guess what? In 224 years, congress never has made no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. How was it that for 175 years this worked as designed until the Warren Court thought different? The second phrase somehow gets lost in the rush to interpret the first phrase. It states, "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". So a student who wishes to say a prayer at graduation ceremonies is well within his rights under the First Amendment to do so.
The Bill of Rights has clarity which at times, makes those who believe otherwise cringe in their boots. Purveyors of anti-gun dogma are going to try their damnedest to ignore part of the Second Amendment in an attempt to prove their position that only a militia (read that as the National Guard), the police, and the military can keep and bear arms. This serves their purpose. We see this same thrust in all ten of the articles in the Bill of Rights. What we miss is the fact that words have meaning and understanding the original intent, instead of ignoring or twisting it, is the key to understanding and following this most hallowed document.
Yes, by all means, let those with such horrid believes be the ones with the least amount of offspring.
