With the Fourth of July only days away, Americans soon will be looking to the past – to the country’s founding – for words of wisdom and inspiration. But as is often the case, what we hear on TV and ...
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The Amazing Origins Of Church-State Separation
What the First Amendment separated was the Church as an institution from the State as an institution. —Gary DeMar, God and Government (1997) To admit that the church is separate from the state is not the same as saying that ...
Read More »Wreck-It Ralph And Eminent Domain
They showed a piece of paper saying “eminent domain.” —Buckner and Garcia, Wreck It, Wreck-It Ralph (2012) Think about it: What the Court said was that the government can take your property from you and give it to someone else ...
Read More »The Deadly Mixture Of Church and State
Not the Church becoming State, but the State becoming Church, mark that well. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880) I am King and Priest. —Leo III, emperor of Byzantium (8th Century) When Sacrifice Is Sin The enemy had assembled his ...
Read More »How High is the Wall of Separation?
Few issues are as volatile as the debate over the separation of church and state. Over the years there have been many interpretations of the founding father’s views on religious freedom and church-state relations. As anyone who has read the ...
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