SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE:

DOES IT SAY THAT?

By Charles N. Spence, Jr.

The first amendment under the United States Constitution says concerning religion, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof." This amendment came because of territorial rule by those who sought to make their religious faith the dominant one, while remaining intolerant of others. The government held that each individual's faith was important enough to protect. Under the Constitution, government would not impose a religion upon the people, nor would it honor any one religion at the expense of another. It guaranteed, under the Constitution, that an individual would not be hindered from worshiping as he pleases.

Today, however, government has ignored the individual's first amendment right to his faith. The humanist agenda has reared its ugly head and tainted the government's comprehension of the first amendment. Somehow, the interpreters of the Constitution have concluded that the amendment implies a "Separation of Church and State." Such a conclusion is non sequitur. The premises do not imply that conclusion. If such a conclusion is allowed to stand, people may find themselves attending padlocked buildings of worship and without faith to exercise. Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address the nature of our government when he said, "This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Since this country is a self-governing body (at least its supposed to be), to imply a separation of Church and State is to imply religion has no business in our society at all. Do you see the humanist's agenda at work? People have been hoodwinked into accepting such jargon without realizing the implications. The humanists do not want prayer in school; they do not want morals and religious values emphasized in society; they do not want you worshiping the one true God at all. Now that their agenda is in place and having employed the American Civil Liberties Union as their catalyst, the humanists are rewriting the Constitution.

Not only has our government prohibited our free exercise of religion, they have created laws respecting an establishment of religion: Secular Humanism. Government has allowed and protected the humanist’s right to teach evolution and sex education in schools, while making prayer and any other "Christian" act or subject unlawful. Government has ruled in favor of the pornographers and abortionists, while sentencing our children to drink from the tainted wells of humanism. Our society has gone back to the days of Rome when Christians were butchered in Roman arenas. Instead of the Coliseums the innocent are being slaughtered in abortion clinics.

Secular Humanism has crept in unawares; now it must be met head on by those of strong religious conviction. If we are still a government of the people, for the people, by the people, let us take control of our government and aid in the restoration of our fundamental constitutional rights. Help rid our society of the religious apathy by ridding our society of the influences of Secular humanism.