Oh, and please tell me where in the Constitution is the word “education” or is it mentioned as a federal responsibility or under jurisdiction of the Federal Courts?
You totally missed the critical purpose of the statement...
Not at all.
At #31 you made the 'critical' point:
But since we are all properly obeying * the modern interpretation * of the First Amendment... Good or bad isn't the question. Good, bad, right, wrong, evil, moral: all of these are purely religious. Morality and all of its associated concepts are based on the belief that some higher power is defining the correctness of human behavior.
* The First Amendment says that Government must exorcise all traces of religion and theism from itself. * (The "modern interpretation.")
Then the counterpoint was made:
" --- The First Amendment says that Congress shall make no law respecting the [differing & divisive] establishments of religions.
The religion clauses were designed in significant part to try to temper religious disputes: -- The social dissension that grows out of the fact that people have different religions.
Thus, it is not necessary for governments to 'exorcise all traces', but to just avoid backing specific beliefs, -- those beliefs that divide us.
The Constitution actually says neither of those things.
No one said it did; -- those two comments were counterpoints to your comments.
It does say "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
That means no law whatsoever, nor does it mean the Supreme Court can make laws.
The counter was made that -- "it is not necessary for governments to 'exorcise all traces' [of god], but to just avoid backing specific beliefs, -- those beliefs that divide us."
-- in other words, "In God We Trust" is a perfectly fine motto for our coins, etc.
Oh, and please tell me where in the Constitution is the word "education" or is it mentioned as a federal responsibility or under jurisdiction of the Federal Courts?
Have I mentioned education? That's an odd shift, in particular because I favor private education.