FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION ALL WRONG
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
"The weekend before President Bush's second inauguration, 60 humanists, atheists and ethical culturalists gathered at a hotel just off Dupont Circle for an ‘emergency meeting’ organized by the American Humanist Association.
"’The situation is now as bad as we'll ever see it,’ Roy Speckhardt, the group's deputy director, said afterward." So reports Julia Duin of The Washington Times.
The atheist-secularists work night and day to undermine America’s religious heritage. They are as evangelistic in their zeal and methods as any Christian crusade. They are committed to spread their "ungospel."
And they work enthusiastically through judges who are immoral and unethical according to the Judeo-Christian definition. Sometimes, however, they win out by simply threatening with a few words.
"’There is complete scorn on the part of the current administration as to the separation of church and state,’ emphasizes Freedom from Religion Foundation founder Anne Nicol Gaylor.
"Gaylor says in an interview: ‘There has never been any less respect in Washington for church-state separation, even though church-state separation is one of the things that made our country possible in the first place.’"
Interestingly enough, Gaylor, like her colleagues, has no appreciation for the true definition of "separation of church and state." Further, when they do go after religion in public life, it is never the Muslim religion or Buddhism or Hinduism or Shintoism or New Ageism or any other religion but Judeo-Christianity. Not fair.
Nevertheless, that’s their way of combating "religion." It’s Judeo-Christian faith that they are determined to eradicate from the Judeo-Christian American heritage.
Julaine Appling, executive director of the Family Research Institute in Madison, Wisconsin states that most of secularists’ energy is spent challenging Christians. "’When they go after religion, they go after Christianity aggressively,’ she says. ‘I don't see them going after other religions.’"
This is all in the name of "separation of church and state." Yet these enthusiasts for no-belief don’t have a clue as to the historic understanding of that phrase.
Liberals have run off with this phrase, prostituting it per usual.
The matter is simple. It’s this: America does not want a state church. England has a state church — the Anglican Church. America does not want one denomination considered The Nation’s Church.
On the other hand, America has a religious heritage. It’s not Muslim. It’s not Hindu. It’s not Shinto. It’s not animism. It’s not New Age. It’s not Paganism. It’s not Voodoo. It’s Judeo-Christian.
America, while not desiring a state church, does desire religion in life. That includes religious expression in everyday exchange. Because Judeo-Christian is America’s heritage, most citizens honor that heritage expressed and honored. Its expression then should not be thwarted. It should not be belittled. It should not be erased in the name of "separation of church and state."
Unhampered religious expression is promised in the First Amendment.
Further, America, having a Judeo-Christian heritage and the right to present-tense expression, permits freedom of religious expression to other religions. Therefore, there are those of other religious persuasions who practice without fear their religions in America.
What the liberals want to do is redefine the phrase "separation of church and state" to exclude Judeo-Christian religious expression in America. They want not only "separation of church and state" defined on their terms but the exclusion of the Judeo-Christian religion and anything coming close to that particular religious expression—period.
Liberals believe that if they continue harping on the "separation of church and state" phrase, brainwashing the public with their prostituted definition, especially indoctrinating the next generation with their prostituted definition, then they will have won secularism for America’s future.
They, in other words, want not only separation but exclusion of religion — completely so. Note however that the chief religion they want excluded is Judeo-Christian.
They will even tolerate other religions, as they are presently doing with the Muslim infiltration, but it is Judeo-Christian that they want cleansed from America. In other words, it’s a religious cleansing they desire for this nation — the extinguishing specifically of the Judeo-Christian faith.
Therefore, if tolerating another religion such as Islam helps wipe out Judeo-Christianity, then so be it. Islam is far better a tolerance than the American heritage of Judeo-Christian.
Therefore, there are school districts hiring Muslims to speak to teachers on how to give Muslim students honor and space. No such invitation, of course, has been extended to Judeo-Christian specialists speaking to public school educators on how to give Judeo-Christian adherents honor and space.
In a nearby high school, a prayer room was set aside for Muslim students. No such prayer room or any other respect has been presented those of the Judeo-Christian heritage.
Liberals, in other words, will do whatever it takes to obliterate America of its rightful Judeo-Christian heritage. This is accented every year particularly during the Christmas season. Any other so-called "religious expression" can come to the fore but the Christian particulars must be silenced at all costs. So we hear throughout the Christmas season, not Christian hymn carols, but "separation of church and state."
Once again, liberals have taken language to serve their own twisted purposes. They took "homosexual" and made it "gay." They took "pro-choice" and made it "protecting females." They take "separation of church and state" and make it "wiping out America’s Judeo-Christian heritage."
What those of the Judeo-Christian heritage must do — and far more concertedly than they have ever done in the past — is to make clear to the public what "separation of church and state" really means. This must be put in print in magazines and journals. It must be preached from pulpits. It must be taught in religion classes. It must be spelled out in letters to the editor.
Unfortunately, this simply has not been done. The church in particular has permitted the liberals to carry on with their prostitution of the phrase. I have been appalled over the years to note that the church specifically has not risen to expose the liberals’ misuse of that phrase.
Therefore, the young have taken quickly to the liberals’ definition while the church has sat, in the main, silent, allowing the enemy to win out.
For more: http://conservativeposts.us/ <http://conservativeposts.us/>
"The weekend before President Bush's second inauguration, 60 humanists, atheists and ethical culturalists gathered at a hotel just off Dupont Circle for an ‘emergency meeting’ organized by the American Humanist Association.
"’The situation is now as bad as we'll ever see it,’ Roy Speckhardt, the group's deputy director, said afterward." So reports Julia Duin of The Washington Times.
The atheist-secularists work night and day to undermine America’s religious heritage. They are as evangelistic in their zeal and methods as any Christian crusade. They are committed to spread their "ungospel."
And they work enthusiastically through judges who are immoral and unethical according to the Judeo-Christian definition. Sometimes, however, they win out by simply threatening with a few words.
"’There is complete scorn on the part of the current administration as to the separation of church and state,’ emphasizes Freedom from Religion Foundation founder Anne Nicol Gaylor.
"Gaylor says in an interview: ‘There has never been any less respect in Washington for church-state separation, even though church-state separation is one of the things that made our country possible in the first place.’"
Interestingly enough, Gaylor, like her colleagues, has no appreciation for the true definition of "separation of church and state." Further, when they do go after religion in public life, it is never the Muslim religion or Buddhism or Hinduism or Shintoism or New Ageism or any other religion but Judeo-Christianity. Not fair.
Nevertheless, that’s their way of combating "religion." It’s Judeo-Christian faith that they are determined to eradicate from the Judeo-Christian American heritage.
Julaine Appling, executive director of the Family Research Institute in Madison, Wisconsin states that most of secularists’ energy is spent challenging Christians. "’When they go after religion, they go after Christianity aggressively,’ she says. ‘I don't see them going after other religions.’"
This is all in the name of "separation of church and state." Yet these enthusiasts for no-belief don’t have a clue as to the historic understanding of that phrase.
Liberals have run off with this phrase, prostituting it per usual.
The matter is simple. It’s this: America does not want a state church. England has a state church — the Anglican Church. America does not want one denomination considered The Nation’s Church.
On the other hand, America has a religious heritage. It’s not Muslim. It’s not Hindu. It’s not Shinto. It’s not animism. It’s not New Age. It’s not Paganism. It’s not Voodoo. It’s Judeo-Christian.
America, while not desiring a state church, does desire religion in life. That includes religious expression in everyday exchange. Because Judeo-Christian is America’s heritage, most citizens honor that heritage expressed and honored. Its expression then should not be thwarted. It should not be belittled. It should not be erased in the name of "separation of church and state."
Unhampered religious expression is promised in the First Amendment.
Further, America, having a Judeo-Christian heritage and the right to present-tense expression, permits freedom of religious expression to other religions. Therefore, there are those of other religious persuasions who practice without fear their religions in America.
What the liberals want to do is redefine the phrase "separation of church and state" to exclude Judeo-Christian religious expression in America. They want not only "separation of church and state" defined on their terms but the exclusion of the Judeo-Christian religion and anything coming close to that particular religious expression—period.
Liberals believe that if they continue harping on the "separation of church and state" phrase, brainwashing the public with their prostituted definition, especially indoctrinating the next generation with their prostituted definition, then they will have won secularism for America’s future.
They, in other words, want not only separation but exclusion of religion — completely so. Note however that the chief religion they want excluded is Judeo-Christian.
They will even tolerate other religions, as they are presently doing with the Muslim infiltration, but it is Judeo-Christian that they want cleansed from America. In other words, it’s a religious cleansing they desire for this nation — the extinguishing specifically of the Judeo-Christian faith.
Therefore, if tolerating another religion such as Islam helps wipe out Judeo-Christianity, then so be it. Islam is far better a tolerance than the American heritage of Judeo-Christian.
Therefore, there are school districts hiring Muslims to speak to teachers on how to give Muslim students honor and space. No such invitation, of course, has been extended to Judeo-Christian specialists speaking to public school educators on how to give Judeo-Christian adherents honor and space.
In a nearby high school, a prayer room was set aside for Muslim students. No such prayer room or any other respect has been presented those of the Judeo-Christian heritage.
Liberals, in other words, will do whatever it takes to obliterate America of its rightful Judeo-Christian heritage. This is accented every year particularly during the Christmas season. Any other so-called "religious expression" can come to the fore but the Christian particulars must be silenced at all costs. So we hear throughout the Christmas season, not Christian hymn carols, but "separation of church and state."
Once again, liberals have taken language to serve their own twisted purposes. They took "homosexual" and made it "gay." They took "pro-choice" and made it "protecting females." They take "separation of church and state" and make it "wiping out America’s Judeo-Christian heritage."
What those of the Judeo-Christian heritage must do — and far more concertedly than they have ever done in the past — is to make clear to the public what "separation of church and state" really means. This must be put in print in magazines and journals. It must be preached from pulpits. It must be taught in religion classes. It must be spelled out in letters to the editor.
Unfortunately, this simply has not been done. The church in particular has permitted the liberals to carry on with their prostitution of the phrase. I have been appalled over the years to note that the church specifically has not risen to expose the liberals’ misuse of that phrase.
Therefore, the young have taken quickly to the liberals’ definition while the church has sat, in the main, silent, allowing the enemy to win out.
For more: http://conservativeposts.us/ <http://conservativeposts.us/>
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