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The separation of Church and state is at the heart of this no doubt.  It appears many fail to discern between God and Church, between the Creator and religion, between natural revelation and supernatural revelation, between philosophy and faith.  Proof of this is the fact that the mere mention of a Creator, or God in any public setting is met with cries of “seperation of church and state”. 

It seems to me the prevelence of naturalism has left many ignorant of the observation and reason underlying the conclusions of natural philosophy.  Once understood, a clear line of distinction between the Creator as an inference drawn from nature and religion as faith drawn from supernatural revelation, e.g., the bible, exists. 

This lack of discernment is taking its toll on our application of “make no law establishing a religion” to “make all law ignore natural philosophy” and inevitabely “natural law” both of which are woven throughout the fabric of our constitution and fundamentally essential thereto.  Besides this, ignoring the conclusion of natural philosophy in law is to both imply the truth of and in many cases establish, a competing philosophical premise, in this case, naturalism or materialism. Bottom line, philosophy is not religion and the conflation of the two is creating unnecessary and very regretable divisions.

They keep ignoring the second clause of the First Amendment, which reads: “...nor prohibit the free exercise thereof."(of religion).  The phrase “separation of Church and State” was coined by a Supreme Court justice who was a member of the Klan, and who hated Catholics.

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

They keep ignoring the second clause of the First Amendment, which reads: “...nor prohibit the free exercise thereof."(of religion).

Good point.  All who acknowledge nature’s Creator are being forced by the ignorance of the minority to behave and speak as if no Creator can be inferred from nature without religion… in effect, we all by our actions and words must imply no God exists… in all public settings. 

hmm, if all property was public, like the socialist want, I guess pretty much freedom of reigious expression would be out.

Robert108...Great point! BUT ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. We need to keep reminded of that.

Great point! BUT ignoring it doesn’t make it go away.

Yes, it won’t go away but that doesn’t mean one has to accept it.  Laws and actions prohibiting Christianity did not stop the early apostles and discipiles from preaching the ‘Good News’.  Christ spoke to that many times predicting violence and stress between members of a society i.e. ‘They will be divided, father against son and son against father’ and praising those that went forward despite the opposition. i.e. ‘Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven’

You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

ZZ: That was the purpose of my comment, to point out that the Constitution spells it out, no matter what the lefties try to sell us.

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

Robert108...I understood that. I probably should have said we need to remind people of that… I am glad you spoke up just to remind people!