My LTTE slamming Christian Theocracy

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Letters to the Editor
Joliet Herald

February 27, 2008

God not in Constitution

Robert Lemke, in his Feb. 10 letter to the editor, cites many founding fathers, a Supreme Court justice and a couple of Supreme Court rulings as proof that some of the men that framed our laws were Christians who actively promoted their religion.
It's my impression that the point of Lemke's letter was to imply that our founding fathers' intention was to endorse and insert Christianity into our government and that our Supreme Court also favors such a theocracy.

It's true that many of our country's founders and jurists were faithful Christians. Some actively promoted their religion.

Some were Christian schooled. Some even felt that Christianity was the basis of our laws.

None of this is in dispute.

Also undisputed is the fact that the majority of the framers/interpreters of our country's ultimate law, the Constitution, were not in favor of making Christianity or any other religion part of our government.

That's why neither God nor Jesus is mentioned in the Constitution.

That's also the reason that nearly every Supreme Court ruling concerning religion in our government, in our courtrooms or in our classrooms falls on the side of separation of church and state rather than on the side of Christians seeking official government endorsement.

This separation of church and state wasn't an accidental oversight on the part of our founders.

It was a deliberate attempt to avoid government-sponsored religious persecution that man has experienced throughout history.

The creators of the Constitution were very smart. They had every opportunity to codify Christianity into our laws. They chose not to.

And now, two centuries later, the personal letters and offhand comments of a few of them are being used to challenge their official stance.

That true stance is the one they took when they wrote and signed the Constitution.

Paul Winkelmann Romeoville

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/opinions/letters/814176,4_4_JO27_LETTERS_S1.article

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1. recommend

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2. Wink, you ROCK

STICK IT TO 'EM

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3. Very factual, tactful and to the point.

I love the way you interject history into your comments. Keith Olberman does this a lot when he's rebutting conservatives and it drives them nuts.

I'll repeat what I posted several weeks ago. I think there's a direct correlation between how conservative you are and how ignorant you are on your history. If a person had any clue about how this country was run when the Republicans are in power for a sustained period of time, they would crawl back in their holes and shut up. Instead, they get more boisterous, because Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity or some other ignorant clown on the radio made some false statement that reinforced their beliefs.

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4. Nice, well reasonsed letter.

I'm kicking this for you, too. In case you missed it, I gleaned some quotes from the founding fathers and posted them here: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/yellerpup