J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Liberals have run off with this phrase, prostituting it per usual.
The
matter is simple. It’s this: America does not want a state church.
England has a state church — the Anglican Church. America does not want
one denomination considered The Nation’s Church.
On
the other hand, America has a religious heritage. It’s not Muslim. It’s
not Hindu. It’s not Shinto. It’s not animism. It’s not New Age. It’s
not Paganism. It’s not Voodoo. It’s Judeo-Christian.
America,
while not desiring a state church, does desire religion in life. That
includes religious expression in everyday exchange. Because
Judeo-Christian is America’s heritage, most citizens honor that
heritage expressed and honored. Its expression then should not be
thwarted. It should not be belittled. It should not be erased in the
name of “separation of church and state.”
Unhampered religious expression is promised in the First Amendment.
Further,
America, having a Judeo-Christian heritage and the right to
present-tense expression, permits freedom of religious expression to
other religions. Therefore, there are those of other religious
persuasions who practice without fear their religions in America.
What
the liberals want to do is redefine the phrase “separation of church
and state” to exclude Judeo-Christian religious expression in America.
They want not only “separation of church and state” defined on their
terms but the exclusion of the Judeo-Christian religion and anything
coming close to that particular religious expression—period.
Liberals
believe that if they continue harping on the “separation of church and
state” phrase, brainwashing the public with their prostituted
definition, especially indoctrinating the next generation with their
prostituted definition, then they will have won secularism for
America’s future.
They,
in other words, want not only separation but exclusion of religion —
completely so. Note however that the chief religion they want excluded
is Judeo-Christian.
They will even tolerate other religions,
as they are presently doing with the Muslim infiltration, but it is
Judeo-Christian that they want cleansed from America. In other words,
it’s a religious cleansing they desire for this nation — the
extinguishing specifically of the Judeo-Christian faith.
Therefore,
if tolerating another religion such as Islam helps wipe out
Judeo-Christianity, then so be it. Islam is far better a tolerance than
the American heritage
of Judeo-Christian. Therefore, there are school districts hiring
Muslims to speak to teachers on how to give Muslim students honor and
space. No such invitation, of course, has been extended to
Judeo-Christian specialists speaking to public school educators on how to give Judeo-Christian adherents honor and space.
In
a nearby high school, a prayer room was set aside for Muslim students.
No such prayer room or any other respect has been presented those of
the Judeo-Christian heritage.
Liberals, in other words, will
do whatever it takes to obliterate America of its rightful
Judeo-Christian heritage. This is accented every year particularly
during the Christmas season.
Any other so-called “religious expression” can come to the fore but the
Christian particulars must be silenced at all costs. So we hear
throughout the Christmas season, not Christian hymn carols, but
“separation of church and state.”
Once again, liberals have
taken language to serve their own twisted purposes. They took
“homosexual” and made it “gay.” They took “pro-choice” and made it
“protecting females.” They take “separation of church and state” and
make it “wiping out America’s Judeo-Christian heritage.”
What those
of the Judeo-Christian heritage must do — and far more concertedly than
they have ever done in the past — is to make clear to the public what
“separation of church and state” really means. This must be put in
print in magazines and journals. It must be preached from pulpits. It
must be taught in religion classes. It must be spelled out in letters
to the editor.
Unfortunately, this simply has not been done. The
church in particular has permitted the liberals to carry on with their
prostitution of the phrase. I have been appalled over the years to note
that the church specifically has not risen to expose the liberals’
misuse of that phrase. Therefore, the young have taken quickly to the
liberals’ definition while the church has sat, in the main, silent,
allowing the enemy to win out.