Separation of Church and State

With America heralding it self as the topmost religious, mainly Christian oriented, industrialized nation on the Earth, one might think it is strange to see the large amount of attention being lavished on secular voting events such as “Rock the Vote” while such a small amount of attention is given to faith based events such as “Redeem the Vote.” However when you consider the amount of commercialism and money that is tied up between the networks and the stars appearing in the secular events you can start to see the reasons for the overwhelming coverage. With that being said we could leave it at that, attributing the over coverage to money and marketing fueling the media agenda, but if we followed that line of thought we would be wrong. The real reason behind the extensive coverage is fear, fear of not holding to the P.C. ~ politically correct agenda. You, the religious reader, are fed this agenda, or maybe the correct term is mantra, every day. It is because this learning repetition that you feel the fear rise up in your throat every time your faith is brought up or nearly discovered in public. This is the reason you’ll blast a secular radio station and if a faith based commercial is aired or you scan to a religious sermon by mistake you quickly lower the volume and look around to see if anyone heard and are now looking at you like you are a religious nut, because it is now the common thought for all religious people to considered strange and not modern. The core of this growing subconscious ideology is being founded and pressed by non-Christians, misinformed-Christians, and atheists that have found deep foot holds in the Constitution through the twisting of the 1st Amendment “The Separation of Church and State.”

“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.”

They, the ultra-secularists, are using their dry interpretation of founding document of our nation to push the belief that all public space and activities in the public eye should be secular and free from religion, thus because public space and public forums are protected and mandated by the government they are subject to enforcement of their version of the 1st Amendment. The answer to this type of thinking is very straight forward and must be brought to the forefront of our minds to stop the purging of faith from our nation. The Separation of Church and State is not Separation of God and State, Freedom of Religion is not, nor was ever meant to be reflected as Freedom from Religion as a nation free of religion. The framers of the Constitution were faith based people who understood the need for both religion and religious tolerance, to write and sign a document that stripped their country of religion would have been blasphemy to them and would have negated their core definition and understanding of life and death. From religion come the pillars of morality that guide and hold up the ethics system of our country. America is a common idea that is held together by our commonality in historically faith based ideology and morals taken from Christianity. To erase public religion and replace it with personal religion is to erase our commonality and erode the moral underpinning of our nation to the point where we no longer recognize each other as a people.