Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Separation of Church from Bullshit.

The next time I hear someone say we can’t do something because of the separation of church and state, I’m going to punch them. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it mention anything about the separation of church and state. If you can find it and link me to the source, I will personally send you $100 dollars. What the constitution says in the 1st Amendment is that “Congress shall make no law establishing a religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”.

Congress shall not establish a religion. Basically there is not to be a Church of the United States. The government cannot prohibit someone from freely exercising their religion of choice. It’s really not that hard to understand. There is no amendment, law or clause that says that church and state have to be separate. Someone holding a prayer in school is not establishing religion. The school board prohibiting it is prohibiting the free exercise of religion, thus unconstitutional. Having a manger scene in a square downtown is not establishing religion. The city council saying that it has to be taken down because it’s offensive to people is prohibiting the free exercise, and again, unconstitutional.

The problem I believe is we have a whole party of control freaks who like to control everything that is God centered in everyone else’s lives. The ACLU doesn’t protect freedom of religion; they protect people from the freedom FROM religion. I’m no constitutional scholar but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t say in the 1st amendment that you can practice religion unless it offends someone, then the government can step in and infringe on someone else’s right to practice that religion.

Separation of church and state is bullshit. Using this as a tool to drive all God centered religion out of public life; the control freak left actually establishes an official state religion. That religion is Atheism.

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