"JR" wrote in message
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Dave LaCourse wrote:

The president doesn't make the law, and only the people can add to the
Constitution, so the separation of Church and State clause will remain
throughout your and my lifetimes.

Over the past few days, I've heard three different conservative
evangelical Christians on radio talk shows maintain (in all seriousness,
apparently) that the wording of First Amendment DOES NOT specifically
prescribe a separation of church and state.


They were right. It doesn't. You should read it some time.

Mainstream Protestantism.....in it's multifarious variations....has been the
de facto official religion of the United States since before the Bill of
Rights came into being, and it still is. You ever look at a piece of U.S.
currency?.....the part where it says, "In God We Trust?.......well, you can
bet your ass that ain't Yahweh, Allah, Siva, some born again Virgin, or
Quetzalcoatl.

As a matter of fact, an enterprising scholar could, with a minimum of
effort, find some very interesting material on the treatment meted out to
followers of any of the above at various times in our great nation's
history.

The fact that the current pig in chief has sold out that very mainstream
Protestant consitiuency for the transient votes of the even more easily
manipulated lunatic fringe should be viewed as a probably short term
aberration. He certainly isn't the first to do so.....any more than he is
the first to successfully capitalize on the stupidity of the social,
economic, political, and philosophical lunatic fringes. ****, he isn't even
the first to convince tens of millions that he has some sort of religious
leanings himself. After all, the American public IS easy to fool. Hell,
tens of millions of them......bloodthirsty swine that they are.......have
managed to convince themselves that THEY have some sort of religious
leanings.......no, it's TRUE!

That said, Tom Gibson was right......probably. After all, it can't happen
here, right?

Wolfgang
ya gotta laugh, ainna?