Email of the Day
15 May 2006 04:37 pm
A reader writes:
I just finished a biography of James Madison - the father of the Constitution. He was a weighty advocate for the separation of Church and State. For example, he didn't want religious education at the University of Virginia. As for the current debate regarding prayer by military chaplins, Madison was against having chaplains in the military at all. Now, the Christianists are not only ignoring that stricture, but they want a Christian prayer whenever there is prayer. Madison is turning over in his grave.
One thing you cannot repeat enough: The founding fathers were the opposite of Christianists. In fact, their constitution is designed to protect us from Christianism. And, by and large, it does. But in the Christianists' attempt to stack the courts and in undermining critical secular institutions like the military, they still represent a threat to limited government and religious freedom. And that threat needs to be exposed and resisted.
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