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Originally Posted by W.J. Wilczek
The unsupported statement of Justice Brewer in HolyTrinity Church v. United States to the effect that America is a Christian nation was not in any way pertinent to the court’s ruling or even be considered the ratio decidendi of the court’s opinion in the case; and it is been criticized in subsequent decisions by the court. See e.g., Public Citizen v. Department of Justice, 491 U.S. 440 (1989). Even Justice Antonin Scalia, who is not shy about reconciling his legal opinions with his religious convictions, has criticized the Holy Trinity Church case as an example of legislating from the bench. Nor is Justice Brewer’s statement correct. The founders of our country did not intend to create a theocracy. Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence - George Washington, who presided over the Constitutional Convention - and James Madison, who drafted the Constitution (and the First Amendment) - all declared that our nation was not founded on religion. The separation of church and state is the founding principle in the protection of religious freedom as provided in the First Amendment to the Constitution; and, moreover, the Supreme Court has so interpreted it. Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing TP. et al., 330 U.S. 1 (1947).
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Please explain how any "SCOTUS" decision can do away with actual history. It does not matter what MODERN ideology declares, that ideology can not and does not do away with the fact that this Nation was founded as a Christian Nation and its rule of law was clearly established based upon the principles found in Blackstone's theory of Law. The footprints of this principle can be found in traditional legal procedure, with an oath sworn to God while placing a hand upon the Holy Bible. A persons right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. A persons right to have his accusers face them in court. A persons right to be free with this right coming from the 'transcending' authority of the Creator, just as mentioned in this nation's "Declaration of Independence". A persons right to own personal property. A persons right to protect both life and property.
The very fact that the 1st WAS NOT so interpreted in OPINION ONLY, without referencing Blackstone's Theory as was done by all precedence before the 1920's, to erect an imaginary wall of separation between the church and state for the VERY FIRST TIME in 1947 (almost 200 years after the fact of the amendment being drafted) self professes that US history was ignored in such opinion. If you really want to see Separation of Church and State declared in "actual writing" and not OPINION. Simply look at any constitution that was drafted and used by the USSR, you will have no trouble whatsoever in finding God and religion removed from the government. But if you will notice, The US military still uses men of God and allows its soldiers to be counseled in the ways of God in the fact of the "Chaplin Corps". And the last time I looked these Chaplin's were paid by the US Taxpayer and our US Government in fact did and still does have relations with the ideology of RELIGION. In fact ALL FEDERAL CURRENCY presents the fact that our nation indeed TRUSTS GOD, AND GOD IN TURN FAVORS OUR UNDERTAKINGS "Annuit Copetis" Only the "gullible" fail to actually consider history and blindly accept human secularism and communism without question. Just as another "Air Head" declared.....IT INDEED IS A "NO BRAINER", for that's what you must profess if you believe the secular nonsense, having no brain that is capable of reading and comprehending history actual. BD
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