Whenever I hear someone saying or writing about the "separation of church and state," supporting it, that is, I want to scream at the top of my lungs: "that's nonsense; it doesn't exist; re-read the Constitution and show me where it is written that the church -- religion (and morality, for that matter) -- should somehow be separated from the secular affairs of the state!"
Show me! I dare you to find it! You can't, because it doesn't exist!
Yet the phrase in the First Amendment to our Constitution (in the Bill of Rights) has been twisted using verbal gymnastics by those intent on kicking God out of the public sphere. Unfortunately, they have been enormously successful, and the results are there for all who have eyes to see, see.
The devastation that has been wrought by such anti-God sentiments and actions, is heart- and soul-breaking to witness...
The Supreme Court ruling killing prayer in the public-school system is taken from Engel v. Vitale in 1962... Here is an excerpt of that ruling from history.net: "What the justices did was a good bit more limited. Their holding in Engel v. Vitale, as officially summarized, was that “state officials may not compose an official state prayer and require that it be recited in the public schools of the state at the beginning of each school day—even if the prayer is denominationally neutral and pupils who wish to do so may remain silent or be excused from the room.”
Okay, but the secular humanists, anti-Christ miscreants used that ruling as a diabolical tool to silence Christians in the school system across the nation and this still exists to this day. In fact, the liberal (and Marxist) teachers and administrators in the schools act like Gestapo thought police spreading their terror tactics to the point of real bullying anyone who dares to mention God on school property...
Dare a student in a public-school talk or discuss God or religion with a fellow student, and, if overheard, is automatically subject to sanctions and undeserved disciplinary actions. This sort of thing happens almost on a daily basis in our country. And lawsuits abound, and rightly so, because of the denial of our First Amendment rights...
Here is why the Supreme Court was wrong in their short-sided ruling... The First Amendment reads as follows: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
That's it; that's the entire Frist Amendment.
It is important to note, that those overzealous bureaucrats seem to have forgotten the second part of that sentence: or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. I can assure my readers that is not happenstance, but by design...
Let's look at that pertinent part of their 1962 ruling: “state officials may not compose an official state prayer and require..."
And this excerpt from the same article: "Specified school prayers were not uncommon in 1962; in fact, 13 states required daily prayer or Bible reading in public schools. Three days after lawyers argued Engel at the Supreme Court, Maryland’s highest court upheld a Baltimore rule that each school day in that city begin with a Bible passage and The Lord’s Prayer."
Did state officials compose an official state prayer? Did the 13 states compose a prayer? Did the respective state legislatures make a law establishing a particular religion? No, but by their actions, they did acknowledge that every breath we take, every day we are alive, is because God wills it, and we must thank Him for His generosity and mercy; the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away...
The separation of church and state myth is attributed to Thomas Jefferson and a letter he wrote responding to an inquiry concerning that subject. It is nowhere in the Constitution, plain and simple...
Here is what real Catholic popes wrote about the "separation of church and state"...
Some might be surprised to learn that the “separation of Church and State” was doctrinally condemned by Pope Pius IX in 1852 and again by Pope Saint Pius X in 1907.
Please watch the following -- short -- video by Dr. Taylor Marshall for a clarification of the relationship of the (Catholic) Church and the state...
[Catholic Video] Do Catholics Reject Separation of Church and State? Yes - Taylor Marshall.
In conclusion. the separation of church and state is a myth, but the havoc it has wrought is undeniable: No nation can eliminate God -- the Creator of nations -- and still profess to be a moral nation; it is a moral and spiritual impossibility...
Pray for strength and honor!
Viva Cristo Rey! Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...
Gene DeLalla
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