@EricinAmericaX@MAGAVoice I hope to get a degree in teaching history one day so I can pass this exact type of wisdom, to young and hungry minds. This post has been a fresh reminder as to why history has the best books to read from. Our founding fathers, wouldn't want this.
Let's go ahead and nip this in the bud with a two part history lesson that addresses this revisionist horsesh-t
Our nation was not "founded on Christianity" but enlightenment era principles that turned away from the religious authority of the church, away from the divine right of kings, away from a national religion, and towards reason, rationality and democratic ideals.
The framers organized these principles together to write our founding documents. They challenged and feared the merging of religion and government. They rejected the Church of England and rebuked the idea of a national religion or church.
There is substantial evidence and documentation that points to these facts:
The Bible even reveals how Jesus Christ believed in what can be interpreted in modern times as the separation between church and state:
Mark 12:17, "Jesus said to them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
That said, it is widely agreed upon *fact* that the founders were deeply opposed to the union of religion and government.
Some were even self proclaimed deists who refuted the idea that a divine hand is meddling in our affairs. Instead, they emphasized the importance of rationality, intellect and observation in understanding nature and how society should be governed.
Thomas Jefferson is often credited with coining the phrase "a wall of separation between church and state" in his letter to the Danbury Baptist association.
Jefferson's metaphor became part of constitutional jurisprudence. He was later quoted by Chief Justice Morrison in Reynolds v. United States in 1878, and was famously referenced in the Supreme Court Case, Everson v. Board of Education, which interpreted the First amendment's establishment clause as intending to erect that "wall of separation."
Jefferson's writings have been referenced in a series of important legal cases and public debates throughout our history.
His famous words are invoked to stress the importance of how this separation protects the rights of the people, and how it preserves the functionality of government and the virtue of religious practice. This includes protecting Americans from a repressive, governing religious authority, and guarding one's religious practice from government intervention.
Roger Williams, an early puritan minister, founder of the state of Rhode Island and the first Baptist Church in America, was the first public official to call for "a wall or hedge of separation" between "the wilderness of the world" and "the garden of the church."
Williams was an early American statesman *and* minister who acknowledged the need for this separation.
James Madison interpreted Martin Luther's "Doctrine of Two Kingdoms" as a conception of the separation of church and state.
During a debate in the House, Madison said, "Because if Religion be exempt from the authority of the Society at large, still less can it be subject to that of the Legislative Body."
In his writings years later he documented his support for the "total separation of the church from the state."
"Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion & Govt in the Constitution of the United States," Madison wrote, and he said, "practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government is essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution."
John Locke also supported this idea. In his, "A Letter Concerning Toleration," Locke argued that, "ecclesiastical authority must be separated from the authority of the state, or 'the magistrate.'"
George Washington wrote to a group of clergy who protested in 1789 against a lack of mention of Jesus Christ in the Constitution; stating, “You will permit me to observe that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.”
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@kobewldvplayed@isthisamovie@MAGAVoice One nation under god, of which god is not specified. Not even how many. That language does not give a de jure standing, but a de facto one. No American has to pray to a god, but we will remain a nation watched under it for that is the foundation the nation was built on.
@GanjaDon541@BobRuzek@JeffDye I think they should have just fined him and let him go, the doc essentially notes that he went in during a riot on a Capitol building, which made him at least guilty of trespassing fa sho
@GanjaDon541@BobRuzek@JeffDye So its saying here that Steve was arrested for entering the capital at a time it was apparent there was a police effort to keep people out, therefore making it "private" and so it would be trespassing to go inside.
Personally, he ain't do too much.
https://t.co/LRpEx1MOFQ
@BelovedWargod@Northsiders1985@jhpodesta@HardPass4 No it does not, Jews during Nazi germany, black people in America, anyone who has faced wrongful prosecution despite not doing anything legally wrong beyond being hated on for their race, religion or sex. No hate its just thats what the poems point is.
@TheBigNolife@joshautry@elonmusk What type of wild parties do you think the world's biggest modern sex trafficker (and convicted SO) throws? Come on dude be serious now. Why would you wanna party with that anyways?
@LindaMorioka@joshautry@elonmusk The Ai makes it easier, but if ya wanna do the reading, take 5 seconds to Google it. Its a court case on the notorious sex predator bro its not that hard to find https://t.co/KVzuXowZKR
@jessicankids143@PatriciaEguino@elonmusk Well until they are verified, im going to assume one of the most rich and powerful people on the planet hung out with the most rich and powerful sex trafficker in modern history because that was kind of his whole thing. Y'know, hanging with billionaires, gee I wonder what musk is
@SpotFestRadio@ABtheRT@PatriciaEguino@elonmusk You think one of the most rich and powerful people was going to hang out with the biggest sex trafficker in modern history, someone who is known for helping the most rich and powerful commit the most heinous crimes...
But Elon was an undercover cop. Yeah, right, dude, get real