Indeed. The scenarios I have listed are the logical consequence of the interpretation of Separation as forbidding the government from endorsing a particular religious viewpoint. It does no such thing but in fact only forbids the government from establishing a certain denomination as the state church.
The government can direct prayers in school just as they can in Congress and on Thanksgiving. It can display the Ten Commandments, just as it can have crosses on public-owned graveyards, and it can proclaim the supremacy of God just as it does on the one dollar bill.
You argue, much as does the ACLU, that if America can't be an establishment of Christianity, then vestiges of our Christian culture must be expunged.
No I don't. You have falsely ascribed this position to me. That is why I asked you not to speak for me.
America is not an "establishment" of a religion, Christian or otherwise. The form of government of this Christian Nation is one based on biblical Christian principles as enshrined in British Common Law.
Christian and other religious symbols, even when displayed by themselves, need not be considered exclusive promotion of one religion or another.
They are Christian symbols and it is an absurd legal fiction to say that they are not, but this contradiction is necessary if the judicial tyrants are to claim that they don't violate the separation of God from government.
The enemies of the Churches and the State are working on the pledge right now. If they can ban Lincoln's Under God from the pledge then surely the money is next. The ACLU commies have to boil the frog slowly if they are going to ever deprive Christians of their freedom.
People such as yourself facilitate this.
If you think we can solve the problems described above by declaring America to be legally Christian, you're sadly mistaken.
I don't have to, because it already is.
If you only get your news from the 700 Club or NewsMax, then every challenge to Judeo-Christian symbolism could appear to be an affront to your beliefs. But they have an agenda, and it's to gain political power for themselves, as well as access to your wallet. I'd hazard a guess that they're well into yours.
I have to say, your view point seems like it was filtered through atheist sites like infidels.org and marxists.org.
But the backlash against a zealotry to establish a Christian nation by law only makes it harder for us to have a balanced view of our culture.
What you describe as zealotry is in fact a backlash against the federal judicial tyranny, who through a specious interpretation of the law made the government the enemy of religion exactly as the Founders feared. We are not trying to alter this nation into something it never was, we are only trying to take back the rights that dirty liberal Democrat scum took away from us and we will get them back.
You are well aware of the unconstitutional religious tests that are sometimes applied to our public officials.
When Pro-death penalty judges start whining that Republican are putting a religious test on them by keeping them off the bench, I will have no sympathy for them.
There wouldn't be any widespread support for such tests if the public weren't worried about the occasional demagogue who stands for a "Re-Christianizing" of America by law, either in secret or in the open.
Exactly. You make the ACLU agenda possible. Only by believing the propaganda of the ACLU could someone come to have such an irrational fear of Christians and their role in this Nation under God. I will return to you the favor you did me when you gave me the benefit of the doubt that I was deceived by the wicked running-dog Kapitalist televangelists. You are an ACLU dupe.
These ideas are much older than the ACLU. Just because the ACLU abuses them, doesn't make your abuse of the Constitution any better.