Robert Berger
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- Apr 12, 2012
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Right-wingers in America a re always saying that there is no se[paration odf church and state in the U.S. constitution. But it IS there. "Congress hsall make no law regarding the establishment of a religion" .
Don't they get it ? America is a "Christian nation" only in the sense that the majority of Americans happen to be Christian . The founding fathers were adamantly opposed to the establishment of a
theocracy in America. But too many right-wing religious jerks in America are convinced that they wanted U.S. law to be based on the Bible . WRONG !!!!!!!!!!!!
While they were for th e most part Christians, some being deists, including Jefferson, they did not have the same religious views as fundamentalist and evangelical Christians today , who use all sorts
of sophistry to try to justify turning America into an evangelical Christian theocracy, or at least a
country which is rather close to one .
So they take all manner of quotes by the founding fathers out of contex or even cite completely fabricated ones to make it look as though Jefferson, Franklin,Washinton,Madison et al were
pious evangelical Christians of th e nmodern kind .
The pseudo historian David Barton is probably the worst culprit in these theological shenanagans .
Barton is just an evangelical Christian right-wing extremist moron who does not even have a degree
in history from any university or college who claims to be an authority in U.S. history .
And this arrogant little clown has a huge following among the religious right, and is the darling of
Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and other right-wing doofuses .
For examle, he claims that the majority of the founding fathers and other early U.S. politicians has "seminary degrees", and were devout evangelicla Christians of his kind . Baloney !
In th epast, a seminary degree was simply a degree from any college or university, not a religious
school . And so on .
Remember - whenever there is no separation of church and state theocracy is inevitable.
Just look at Iran and Saudi Arabia, where there is absolutely no separation of mosque and state .
Don't they get it ? America is a "Christian nation" only in the sense that the majority of Americans happen to be Christian . The founding fathers were adamantly opposed to the establishment of a
theocracy in America. But too many right-wing religious jerks in America are convinced that they wanted U.S. law to be based on the Bible . WRONG !!!!!!!!!!!!
While they were for th e most part Christians, some being deists, including Jefferson, they did not have the same religious views as fundamentalist and evangelical Christians today , who use all sorts
of sophistry to try to justify turning America into an evangelical Christian theocracy, or at least a
country which is rather close to one .
So they take all manner of quotes by the founding fathers out of contex or even cite completely fabricated ones to make it look as though Jefferson, Franklin,Washinton,Madison et al were
pious evangelical Christians of th e nmodern kind .
The pseudo historian David Barton is probably the worst culprit in these theological shenanagans .
Barton is just an evangelical Christian right-wing extremist moron who does not even have a degree
in history from any university or college who claims to be an authority in U.S. history .
And this arrogant little clown has a huge following among the religious right, and is the darling of
Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and other right-wing doofuses .
For examle, he claims that the majority of the founding fathers and other early U.S. politicians has "seminary degrees", and were devout evangelicla Christians of his kind . Baloney !
In th epast, a seminary degree was simply a degree from any college or university, not a religious
school . And so on .
Remember - whenever there is no separation of church and state theocracy is inevitable.
Just look at Iran and Saudi Arabia, where there is absolutely no separation of mosque and state .
