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Date: 2022-10-31
The United States is the most ‘churched’ nation in human history. Religion has never been so free and diverse. This is attributable to one thing and one thing only… that magnificent wall the founders erected between religion and government.
Each American who values his or her religious liberty should do everything to keep that wall strong and secure.
But some Americans couldn’t wreck that wall fast enough. They are the ‘bottom feeders’ of faithful Americans, turning the concept of small government into smallminded government.
They are the religious right.
They demolished the collegiality, compromise, civility, and patriotism that made America’s political system the greatest the world had ever seen. They are the pseudo-pious posers who supported a moral train wreck, sexual predator, tax evader and pathological liar like Donald Trump.
Yet in 1981, on the Senate floor, Barry Goldwater, the nation’s last authentic conservative, predicted with unnerving accuracy the coming of religious creeps infecting government. (Sorry Reaganoids, but Ronnie was an unprincipled poser, giving rise to today’s fascists who call themselves “conservative.”)
That same year, even Billy Graham saw what was happening and feared it.
But one thing is certain - That “wall of separation” Thomas Jefferson wrote of is the best thing any government ever did for religion.
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