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General Comments / Re: GOP nutbag of the week
« on: July 01, 2022, 12:31:17 PM »It is really hard to keep up with all the nutbaggery.QuoteSpeaking at a religious service Sunday in Colorado, she told worshipers: “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it.”
She added: “I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk that’s not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter, and it means nothing like what they say it does.” Her comments were first reported by the Denver Post.
Boebert. Republican embarassment number 329.
Your rebuttal, Mr. Madison, on behalf of the founding fathers?QuoteNothwithstanding the general progress made within the two last centuries in favour of this branch of liberty, & the full establishment of it, in some parts of our Country, there remains in others a strong bias towards the old error, that without some sort of alliance or coalition between Gov' & Religion neither can be duly supported: Such indeed is the tendency to such a coalition, and such its corrupting influence on both the parties, that the danger cannot be too carefully guarded agst.. And in a Gov' of opinion, like ours, the only effectual guard must be found in the soundness and stability of the general opinion on the subject. Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance.
A PERFECT separation.
That quote points out something the religious folks salivating for the changes have been oblivious to.
The danger cuts both ways.
When the pendulum swings,and it will, there will be no protecting your religious institutions from the counter swing because the barriers to do so will have been removed by your own hand.
These cycles are long and I’m not sure I will live to see it but it will come to pass.