The ACLU on one hand is trying to prevent intelligent design, creationism, and any reference to God from being mentioned in schools as people attempt to point out the flaws in evolution. On the other hand in the Arkansas legislature, a resolution that was presented by Rep. Buddy Blair, D-Fort Smith to affirm the separation of church and state was defeated. It seems that the ACLU and this particular legislator need to have an in depth course in the Constitution because they don’t know whereof they speak. The ACLU speaks from a position that God should be shoved aside and the legislator speaks from … well … ignorance of the issue of the separation of church and state. He is in good company because many, including judges, don’t know the truth.

When the United States Constitution was written, belief in God was the focal point by most of the founders of this nation. The Declaration sets forth belief in God and that carries through into the Constitution, though God isn’t mentioned in it. However, the principles of liberty and the limits on government are an extension of their heavenly belief that God is the giver of all life and things good.

 Those who want to deny God’s influence on the founders say that since the terms of Creator and Nature’s God are in the document, that proves that God isn’t who they were referring to in the Declaration and their other writings. Such terms were routinely used to refer to God by the founders and other believers. A verse in Romans says, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.” Romans 8:22. Creation refers to the whole of the physical realm at times called nature, of which God is the Creator, so Nature’s God is a proper term because nature is subject to God, as are the Law’s of Nature which he has given.

The other word which Buddy Blair doesn’t understand is that the word religion in the minds of the founders was always linked to God, the Creator, spoken of in Genesis. Religion then didn’t mean any type of belief in any other god in addition to our Creator who is God. Rather, the word religion meant a denomination or a body of belief that people used to reach God according to their understanding of the Bible, whether such belief was right or wrong in view of the scriptures. Men could disagree and did, and still do about which denomination was or is correct, but the one thing they didn’t disagree on was God.

The ACLU crowd and Buddy Blair need to answer a question. If we don’t base our laws on the principles of God that have stood the test of time, and if we continue to deny God’s rightful place in our public life, where will we find the enduring principles that make for freedom, liberty, life, and happiness? Surely we won’t find them in the dictums of atheism, those of the ACLU, legislatures, socialism, humanism, the liberal Democrats, wiener Republicans, or horoscopes.  

To continue the insanity of trying to remove God from every vestige of public life logically requires that all laws that have been passed, which have been influenced by Gods’ principles, must be removed since they violate the laughable idea of separation of church and state.

Those members of the Arkansas legislature who voted against the resolution are to be commended because they voted their conscience in the belief that the resolution was wrong. When the day comes that the principles of God are removed completely from our society, only the whims of men will be left to rule us. We are already seeing the results of the denial of God, and Mr. Blair, you now have the dubious distinction of trying to help the ACLU remove God from our public life in Arkansas with your attempt to affirm separation of church and state, which doesn’t exist in the Constitution.

Source  http://www.ardemgaz.com/ShowStoryTemplate.asp?Path=ArDemocrat/2005/02/19&ID=Ar01503  Church-state resolution rejected

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