An atheist nation by default?

Why must these United States be made an atheist nation by default?

The Constitution says the federal government will not establish a national religion. OK, I get that part. But then it says the federal government will not prohibit the free exercise of religion, and that restriction includes the actions of the federal courts and the Supreme Court.

It seems to me the courts have been violating the free exercise clause for some fifty years now, and should be ashamed.

I read Thomas Jefferson’s letter to that man where he assured the man that the national government would not impose a religion on everyone. He suggested the constitution makes something like a wall of separation, and it does as I have stated. It says nothing, however, about state, county or local governments. Yet the atheist community has seized on the idea of “separation of church and state” like it is the gospel, and I mean gospel, and with it, they are forcing the majority of Americans to live in an atheist world. Why is this nonsense happening?

As long as it isn’t mandatory—so it doesn’t interfere with a person’s free exercise of a non-praying religion or even no religion at all--is there anything unconstitutional with a local school board instituting prayer before every school day? No. the board is local, not federal.

What is unconstitutional about posting, even referring to the 10 commandments in a local, county or state court? Nothing. Such a posting cannot be construed as the federal government imposing a national religion. Which religion anyway? Judaism, Christianity or Islam?

So what if a church wants to build a nativity scene on a public park at Christmas time. Do church people not have access to public lands just like anyone else? The state of Massachusetts collected taxes to support the Congregational Church in Massachusetts until the 1920s, for crying out loud, and no one ever said that was unconstitutional.

Nor does anyone (yet) claim constitutional violation when the Congress and the Supreme Court itself opens each session with prayer.

Yet, in the last 50 years or so, the federal courts and Supreme Court have systematically shredded the free exercise cause and removed every vestige of religion from public life. Thus, faith is diminished and atheism is empowered. Why have we allowed this?

Something close to the truth: We have ceased to be a democratic republic of one person, one vote and majority rule. We have become a tyranny of the one, where one “offended” person can decide for and control the entire community, state and even nation, trumping the majority.

So how about this: I am offended by the removal of religious expression from all of these areas of life. Maybe I should sue. Maybe I should take it all the way to the Supreme Court.


-Michael
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