There is a lie floating around the country, and it is killing our freedom each and every day. It has created decay in our schools, and public centers. This lie is that the separation of church and state is constitutional. This lie was taken from a letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802. They were concerned that Thomas Jefferson may harm their religious freedoms because they were a minority in their state. Jefferson stated that, “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.” Jefferson believed that the government had no right to keep anyone from practicing their religion, and would not interfere with their religious practices.
We can trace this countries downfalls to a date in my opinion, and a ruling by the supreme court. McCollum v. Board of Education Dist. 71, 333 U.S. 203 (1948)
Court finds religious instruction in public schools a violation of the establishment clause and therefore unconstitutional.
This one ruling began the movement of no prayer in schools, and no religion in public places. This one ruling opened the door for liberals to step in and take over our education system. They replaced Bible classes with classes that teach evolution and other such theories. If we want to win our freedom back, we must educate our children in true American history. They need to study the founders in their own words. They need to learn about the infusion of liberal policies into our schools, and as they learn this, we need to be fighting back the influx of liberal thought. Thomas Jefferson once stated “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
I think that quote gives us our charge to keep. We must educate ourselves first, and then those around us in order to be free.
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