What the Church and State Battle Is Really About
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21NVNeddGod91207.html
[excerpt]
by Bishop Council Nedd II (bio)
What would happen if a presidential candidate stood up and declared
the primary role of our federal government is to preserve the rights
given to man by God?
Presumably, they would be ridiculed by late-night talk show hosts
while left-wing bloggers would classify the statement as a hate crime
and demand that the candidate face prosecution.
Yet that is exactly what the Declaration of Independence proclaims:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
Notice the word "Creator." It is spelled with a capital C. The signers
of the Declaration weren't proclaiming that our rights came from some
unknown entity, that they mystically developed because of a giant
explosion eons ago or that they are handed down to us by very educated
justices confirmed with the behest of Ted Kennedy and his cohorts on
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Founding Fathers declared that our rights come from THE Creator.
To them, government is merely a mechanism for man to preserve those
rights.
That's why it is so alarming that an organization that dares call
itself the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been waging a war
against a county courthouse in Slidell, Louisiana, because a judge
posted a picture of Jesus holding the New Testament with the words "To
know peace, obey these laws" displayed under it. Judge James Lamz hung
the Eastern Orthodox religious icon almost ten years ago and has never
heard a complaint about it, but the ACLU believes it is against the law.
If our laws are designed to protect our rights and our rights are
given to us by God, what's so bad about a picture of Jesus and the
suggestion that people obey the law?
For most ordinary Americans, there's nothing wrong with that. In
southern Louisiana, there is no nefarious plot being hatched to impose
a national religion and turn the United States of America into a
theocracy. But the ACLU would surely like us to think otherwise.
The debate over the separation of church and state is actually an
attempt to scare Americans. The ACLU's apparent thinking that a child
who is allowed to say a prayer at school today may tomorrow be forced
by the FBI to say the rosary is ridiculous, and they surely know it.
But promoting a totally irrational fear is the only way for them to
have their way.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation
of Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Historical Reality SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is
why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v.
Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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