Regarding the incessant attacks on Christmas, and God as well, by liberals, the media, and clueless school boards and city councils across the country, let me explain what the Founding Fathers intentions were on the subject.
In the sweltering summer of 1789, our Founding Fathers, led by James Madison, debated the Bill Rights. One of the foremost concerns on their collective minds was how to handle the religion issue.
They were acutely aware of how years before, King Henry VIII was going through wives like some of the period changed socks, and butted heads with the Catholic Church. For whatever reason, he was surprised that the Catholic Church took a very dim view of his habit of not only divorcing, but also beheading wives.
His response was to create his own Church of England, and thus was born a state religion.
This is what the “Pilgrims,” as we know them, fled England to come here for, religious freedom from a state religion.
Madison and most of the other Founding Fathers were deeply religious, and God fearing men, regardless of what today’s media tries to tell us.
Just pull out some good old U.S. currency and you’ll see what the Founders believed: “In God We Trust.” Don’t let some pseudo-intellectual hack college professor (Ward Churchill comes to mind) try and spin that any differently.
So what Madison & the boys came up with, was what all the lawyers call the “Establishment Clause.”
In plain English (ain’t it great?), they said the new government would not establish a state run religion, but nor would they prohibit the “free exercise” of any religion.
Now, here is where our liberal friends twist that amendment, they try to claim there should be no association between the Federal Government and religion.
That God should not be honored in any city building or school, is quite the opposite of what the Founders wanted.
Far and away they were religious men who not only believed in God, but they wanted that belief to be tangible in our founding documents, our currency, and our mortar.
This is not demanding everyone respect a state religion, it’s simply saying this country was founded on Christian principles, and yet allows the expression of all others.
The ACLU demands the 10 Commandments be removed from all government buildings.
Why? Forget the religious connotations, aren’t they really just 10 pieces of good advice for living your life?
In Arvada, Co this week, a girl from Chisholm was killed in a Christian School, and the perpetrator was disabled by a former Mpls police officer working as a security guard.
These killings seem to be on rise, people with no regard for life, their’s or any others and they go on these killing sprees.
This wasn’t happening 20 or 30 years ago, why?
Could it be that the ACLU, and liberals, drive to remove the 10 “items of good advice” has completely backfired?
I mean, even if you are an atheist, aren’t commandments like “Thou Shalt Not Kill” just plain old good advice?
Merry Christmas all!
