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To: Alex Murphy

Since you posted a link to Thocrocywatch.org I took the opportunity to spend some time over their today where I found the following little gem.

Rev. D. James Kennedy, pastor at the 9,000 member Coral Ridge Presbyterian and founder of the Reclaiming America for Christ movement reaches a viewing and listening audience of about 3.5 million people every Sunday morning. He talks about going beyond the destruction of the Berlin Wall to battering down

"the even more diabolical 'wall of separation' that has led to increasing secularization, godlessness, immorality, and corruption in our country."

At least this theocrat is coherent enough to understand that the founders put in place a wall of separation of church and state when they wrote the Constitution, a fact that is completely lost on most fundamentalists.


93 posted on 07/16/2004 9:12:21 PM PDT by Kerberos (Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies)
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To: Kerberos
the founders put in place a wall of separation of church and state when they wrote the Constitution, a fact that is completely lost on most fundamentalists.

That is a lie. There was no wall of separatation when the constitution was drafted and ratified. Most of the Colonies had already established State Churches that were supported by state taxes (probably not a good idea, but it was not unconsitutional). Additionally churhes were the center of political and social activity until well into the 19th century. There were no rules about churches endorsing candidates (of course there were no income tax laws either).

But if you buy into the myth that the constitution was intended to create a wall of separation between political activity and religious activity, then you don't have any sense of what the consitution is all about.

95 posted on 07/16/2004 9:18:32 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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