I get the distinct feeling that the author of the meme here completely misses the point about “living in a country our founding fathers fought to escape.” The signatories to the Declaration of Independence and the framers of the Constitution …
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Church and State
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. – James Madison Erecting the ‘wall of separation between church and state’… …
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More on DeSantis and His Pledge to “Destroy Leftism in This Country”
When my wife read my post from the other day on Ron DeSantis’s pledge to destroy leftism, she commented that the presidential candidate was referring to passing laws that would make certain acts illegal, not to changing human thinking and …
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DeSantis Pledges to “Destroy Leftism in This Country”
It probably hasn’t dawned on his followers, but “leftism” is a set of values shared by the majority of Americans. Abortion rights, environmental responsibility, the application of the rule of law to all, equal opportunity, quality education, separation of church …
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Separation of Church and State
Many of those on the far right tell us that the principal reason for our woes as a society is our failure to integrate God into our governmental affairs. All I’ll say about this is that it clearly was not …
In Gay-bashing or Clean Energy, Let Stupidity Run Its Course
A friend sent me this piece on a new Kansas law that enables its citizens to deny service to gay people if such service runs counter to “sincerely held religious beliefs.” He writes: “My perspective on this travesty: “Separation of church …
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Denis Diderot's Ideas Lie At the Base of Modern Western Civilization
Last Friday was the birthday of French philosopher Denis Diderot, who said, “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” Holy cow, that’s some powerful language. It appears to summarize …
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