Comments for Diggers Up in Arms. Again. http://thatdamblog.com/cms Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:43:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://thatdamblog.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content"&"task=view"&"id=32"&"Itemid=9#pc_4 Well, nor does the Constitution mention God. The preamble of the Constitution invokes the people of the United States. It does not invoke any sort of God. Also, the Constitution forbids any religious test to hold office. A godless person is just as eligible as a godly one. (Article 6, Paragraph 3) The Founders were well aware of the threats posed by religion/state entanglement; it's what gave the world Kings with "divine right." The exact phrase was first used in Thomas Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists, explaining the decision to seperate state and religion: "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for is faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and 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 and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties." James Madison, principal author of the constitution: "The civil Government, though bereft of everything like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success, whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State." (1819). Please do some research. Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:42:45 +0100 http://thatdamblog.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content"&"task=view"&"id=32"&"Itemid=9#pc_5 I dont have to do research. This is a Blog! Just ask the Obama Mania Bloggers out there. We need to be glad to have what we have because with Barak "I'm a Marxist" Obama. Our days of FREE SPEECH are numbered! I also think you need to read the REST of the Federalist Papers. http://patriotpost.us/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:45:54 +0100