The decree:
"The 'establishment of religion' clause of the First Amendment means at least
this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither
can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions or prefer one religion
over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain
away from church against his will or force him to profess a belief or disbelief
in any religion. No person can be punished for entertaining or professing
religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance. No tax
in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities
or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to
teach or practice religion. Neither a state nor the Federal Government can,
openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or
groups and vice versa. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against
establishment of religion by law was intended to erect 'a wall of separation
between Church and State.'" 330 U.S. 1, 15-16.
The First Amendment has erected a wall between
church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could
not approve the slightest breach. [Majority opinion in Emerson v. Board
of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947), last words]
Now
if the reader has read through the state constitutions and the Northwest
Ordinance they come up with quite a different picture than this decree
by the 1947 court. If you haven't nothing said after this will make any
sense to you. First and foremost is the States, their representatives,
Congress and virtually the entire population used the word "religion" to
describe Bible based beliefs. They never considered any of the worlds
religions as anything but false religion. This court does two things
right off the bat (and this is how other courts have interpreted it.) It
implies all the world religions without any differentiating what the
founders might have considered true verses false religion. Secondly
though with an slight of hand it singles out Christianity as the
religion the state must have no part in whatsoever. This seems to be
exactly the case because of the utter hostility exhibited by subsequent
courts and the government in general that is directed at Christianity
but not the rest of the worlds (false) religions. There seems to be a
direct correlation with the growth of hostility towards Bible based
religion that corresponds to the governments acceptance of false
religion in the schools and other area's of government.
Then they build a straw man as if there is some kind of
dangerous propensity in religion (meaning Christianity to them) to force
it upon unwilling people using the government to do so. They say this
because they were planning to remove any vestiges of Christianity or
Bible based instruction from local communities and local schools.
Meaning; if 90% of a local community wants Bible based principles
in their local school districts and 8% don't care and 2% object. That is
"forcing" Christianity on the 2% which according to their decree is the
meaning of the "Congress shall make no law concerning the establishment
of religion." Of course they conveniently left off the second half of
that sentence. Nor prohibit the free exercise thereof. Which they are
doing when they decree that a local community or state cannot educate
their children based on Biblical principles because a handful of parents
spurred on by socialist agitators don't like it. If they did not have an
agenda to rid the government and the next generation of Biblical
principles could they not have sought accommodation for those couple of
objectors like a voucher system? No! They have consistently ruled
against that also. "Your children will be educated according to what
suits us and not according to what you want or the way in which the
nation was founded." These same progressives, (Democrat party activists)
dragged hundreds of homeschoolers to court when it first began to be
popular to stop that new movement that wanted to escape immoral, anti
American and underperforming schools. They said the "state" has a
"compelling interest" in seeing the nations children having conformity
of thought. This is exactly the attitude of the European elite that
brought us fascism\communism and the deaths of millions. Thank God that
battle about homeschooling has been won for now and it should stand as a
shining example at how this insanity brought to our nation by a radical
minority can be defeated.
Now lets look at the outrages lie that the first
amendment says no tax money can be spent on anything that has a
religious component, (again specifically meaning Christianity.) All of
the states raised taxes for public education that was administered
mostly by churches. All the state funded universities were first and
foremost seminaries. All of this continued on more or less until the
decree 1947! The Northwest Ordinance by an act of congress specifically
funded Christian based education in all of the states and is included in
many of the new states constitutions and no one but a few cranks ever
objected. So now history by judicial decree has been officially
re-written so that Biblical principles, Christian thought and ultimately
Christians themselves can be removed from any place in government so
that progressives can rule us. Of course this very mild despotism paves
the way for total despotism which tendencies just seem to dominate the
hearts of so many who lead the Democrat party. Unknown
to most of the population is government recognition of the sexualist
movement and the official policy of government to promote homosexual
marriage and other such lawlessness is a cornerstone strategy for
Government suppression of the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
and Biblical principles in the general public. This is exactly what the
leaders of the movement say and every country that this has been
instituted in does just that. Ultimately it will also seek the removal
of Christians from the military and then government offices.
Finally there is the quote from Jefferson about a wall
of separation between church and state that is used to justify their
decree. However the spirit of that decree and the consequences of it as
evidenced by the course our governments are taking towards immorality,
covetous, reckless spending and debt on the constituencies that will
vote for them plus hostility towards any common sense religious
principle somehow seem to fit the Soviet Unions constitution on the
matter rather than
Jefferson's letter.
The 1936 U.S.S.R. Constitution "ARTICLE 124.- In order
to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the
church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the state, and the school from the
church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of antireligious
propaganda is recognized for all citizens
In practice this article in the USSR
worked like this: (From Wikipedia)
The government of the Soviet Union followed
an unofficial policy of state atheism, aiming to gradually eliminate
religious belief within its borders and replace it with widespread
atheism. While religion was never officially made illegal, the state
nevertheless made great efforts to reduce the prevalence of
religious belief in society. To this end, at various times in its
history it engaged in anti-religious persecutions of varying
intensity and methodology. Believers were never officially attacked
for being believers, but they were officially attacked for real or
perceived political opposition to the state and its policies These
attacks, however, in the broader ideological context were ultimately
meant to serve the ultimate goal of eliminating religion and
replacing it with atheism, and the perceived political opposition
acted as a legal pretext to carry this out. Thus, although the
Soviet Union was officially a secular state and guaranteed freedom
of religion in its constitution, in practice believers suffered
discrimination and were widely attacked for promoting religion.
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