Separation of Church and State
    and
    The First Amendment


     We have all heard the “separation mantra” echoing off the walls of every public institution until it rings in our ears and imprints our brains. But the phrase is not found anywhere in any of our nation’s founding documents. Yet, it is spoken of as if it were a bedrock principle upon which our nation was founded and is used to remove the Ten Commandments from public buildings, to prohibit children from praying in school or mentioning Christ at graduations, to ban all public expressions of Christmas, and the list goes on and on. 
     Separation of church and state SUPPOSEDLY comes from the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. But that is simply a myth. The first amendment says: 

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
     It doesn’t take a genius to understand that, when a high school valedictorian has her microphone cut of because she wants to give Christ credit for her success, her freedom of freedom of speech is being abridged and the free exercise of religion is being prohibited. Nor does one have to be a scholar with a PhD to do a little reading and understand that the word “religion”,  in the minds of the founding fathers, was talking about different branches of Christianity; it was not a validation of non-Christian religions. Yet, while Christianity is constantly restricted, other religions, such as Islam, are given unbelievable latitude in the name of tolerance. 
     So what does it take to read the First Amendment and get the modern cultural interpretation that we call “separation” that we see everywhere? That is easy: It takes an educated fool.
     The vast majority of the founding fathers were committed Christians and believed the Christian Bible to be the bedrock of freedom and it is time be began to believe it too. Otherwise, we won’t have the freedom to peaceably assemble or petition our government for redress of grievances.

Brad Sherman (Kingdom Kid)
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