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The ignorance of Americans on their own history and constitution has never been clearer, than on the issue of separation of church and state. The phrase originally cited in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danberry Connecticut Baptists, soon after Jefferson had become president on March 4th 1801. Many Americans believe that this nation was founded a strictly secular state. Many actually believe they are patriotically upholding the founder's vision by making sure religion is completely removed from all public life. Groups such as the ACLU and Americans United for The Separation of Church and State routinely file suits in court to intimidate and silence any religious voice in American public life. Cases are promoted to prevent nativity scenes, the Ten Commandments, Crosses from being displayed in public areas. Other cases promote denying the Boy Scouts use of government facilities, removal of ("In God We Trust") on currency, censoring of school graduation and athletic event prayers, firing schoolteachers for leaving bibles on their desk. At the same time, these groups turn a blind eye to the promotion of other religions, such as providing prayer rooms for Muslim students in public schools or school sponsored field trips to mosques, soliciting students to participate in Muslim religious rites as an educational experience. Public schools also promote new age religious ideas and forms of witchcraft as enlightened ideas, while Christianity is presented as part of our past ignorance, intolerance and bigotry. Many who use the term "Separation of Church and State" would be surprised to discover that it's nowhere to be found in the Constitution. The phrase was taken from a political letter written by Jefferson to the Connecticut Baptists assuring them of their concerns about religious liberty. The Baptists in Connecticut had long been a minority in an area dominated by Federalist Congregationalists, and Jefferson wanted to assure them that the federal government would not interfere in showing preference to any Christian denomination above another. England and most of Europe had oppressed Christian minorities for hundreds of years, by mandating a single state Christian denomination. In England the Anglican Church was the state mandated church, all other Christian sects or denominations were prohibited. Years after writing the Letter to the Danbury Baptists, Jefferson himself regularly attended worship services conducted in the Capital building with government paid chaplains. He also arranged for similar services to be conducted in the War Office and Treasury building both belonging to the executive branch of government. In 1803 Jefferson used federal funds to erect churches and promote Christianity among the Indians and provided government support for Christian schools. The evidence for the Christian foundation for America's society and government is so overwhelming that it's difficult to comprehend how this could be misunderstood by so many. George Washington, in his Farewell address to the nation said this "It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." Thomas Jefferson said this, "The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He (God) has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses." James Madison, the 4th US president, father of the bill of rights, said this "I have sometimes thought there could not be a stronger testimony in favor of religion or against temporal enjoyments, even the most rational and manly, than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and [who] are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent advocates in the cause of Christ; and I wish you may give in your evidence in this way." John Jay America's first chief justice of the Supreme Court said this in 1797, two years after serving his term, "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." Jefferson's Wall of separation of church and state only placed limits on the power of the federal government to interfere in matters of religion. The wall was intended to separate the institutions of church and state at the federal level not to separate religion from the civil government. Matters of religion were to rest with individual State and local governments and the people. During the time period of the ratification of the first amendment, all state constitutions with the exception of Rhode Island, had a state sponsored religion. The states would never ratified the first amendment if they believed it would override the states right to sponsor their own Christian denomination. The First Amendment was only proposed to place limitations on the government and not on religion. The freedom of the press, guaranteed in the first amendment, only places restrictions of the government to control the media not to protect the government from the press. In this way the press would be free and independent of the government. The same was purposed for the freedom of religion, government was never to be protected from religious influence, churches and individuals were to be protected from the federal governments imposition of a national Christian denomination. Jefferson affirmed on many occasions that the federal government had no power over religious rights or the free exercise of religion. Jefferson said this at his second inaugural address in 1805,"In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general (federal) government." So where did this distorted idea of separating religion from public originate? In the 1830's and 40's a new influx of Catholic immigrants caused much concern to the established Protestant majority. Groups such as the Know Nothings and later the Ku Klux Klan advocated separatism to prevent Catholic influence in public life. In the late 1940's and beyond many felt Catholic parochial schools posed a threat to public schools, protestant majorities and democratic principles says Professor Daniel L.Dreisbach in his Article "The Mythical Wall of Separation: How a Misused Metaphor Changed Church-State Law, Policy, and Discourse". Dreisbach further stated, that the ACLU, anti-Catholics elites such as Hugo Black, Protestants and others for the separation of church and state, prevailed upon the courts to secularize the state. The 1947 case of Everson v. Board of Education extended the exclusion of aid to religion to federal and state governments. No previous court had interpreted Jefferson's phrase to imply that the state was to be free any religious influence. In the 1930's Hitler recognized that the only institution that stood in the way his plans was the church. So Hitler promoted his propaganda with slogans such as "Politics do not belong in the Church." And "The Church must be separate from the State", says Bryan Fischer in his article "Separation of Church and State: Straight from the Mind of Hitler" quoting Professor John Conway's book "The Nazi persecution of the Churches 1933-45". The former Soviet Union also enforced a strict separation of church and state only allowing the influence of the church to remain within its four walls. These phrases are virtually identical to those promoted by the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. In December 1934, Hitler said this in a campaign speech, "But we will ensure the purging from our public life of all those priests who have mistaken their profession and who ought to have been politicians and not pastors", noted Bryan Fischer in his above mentioned article. Hitler's objectives here are virtually identical with those of the ACLU. The idea of separating religion from all civil government would have alarmed Jefferson and the founding fathers that clearly understood that the general principles of Christianity must have the encouragement and support of the state. They knew that without a Christian foundation and people, their republic would not survive. They understood that the source of our inalienable rights and freedom came Jesus himself and that Christianity was at the foundation of our American government and society. |
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