George Soros spent millions of dollars to bring about the defeat of George Bush, denying the fact that his money couldn’t buy an election.  James Earl Carter, a former President said that if the Revolutionary War wouldn’t have been necessary if the English had been more amenable to reason. Ted Kennedy continues to advocate more welfare, more taxes, and more government. Bill Clinton said he would like to give more money back to tax payers if he was sure that they would spend it right. Politicians, atheists, and other God haters continue to use Thomas Jefferson’s separation of church and state phrase used in the letter to the Danbury Baptists as proof that the Constitution teaches that idea.

There is something about truth, freedom, and liberty that seem to bring out the worst in people who are in positions of responsibility and power. Soros was sure that President Bush was only promoting the United States in the war in Iraq. While it is known that isn’t true, it isn’t known what doctrine Soros was following to make some of his pronouncements.  James Earl Carter can’t get it through his head that there are those who aren’t given to acting reasonably and never will be unless forced.  Without casting any aspersions on his faith in God, one can’t help but wonder how much of the Bible he truly understands given some of the things he says. Truthfully, he should stick with building houses or go back to the peanut business.

Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton are two peas in a pod. Neither one thinks that the average citizen is capable of handling his or her own income. Kennedy thinks government is highly qualified to do it (read it that Kennedy thinks that he is qualified to do it since he is one who can help pass the laws that affect us all). Bill Clinton doesn’t trust anyone to spend properly. People spending their own money might buy things the politicians think they don’t need; things such as big cars, boats, houses, and other forbidden politically incorrect items. 

When Thomas Jefferson wrote that letter, he wasn’t entertaining any notion that people couldn’t use God in their daily public lives if they were involved in government. He was writing about government not being able to stifle religious belief and its practice just as the First Amendment says. And given that the free speech clause follows, the only way one can truly have free speech is to be able to speak of God and related religious and spiritual matters. 

The definitions for religion found in Webster’s 1828 dictionary should leave no doubt that the founders believed in God. Religion was also used  to mean the practice of belief through some system of faith such as Methodist, Baptist, etc., thus when we read Article VI, Clause 3 “but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States,” it must be understood that no denominational test shall be required, not that God would have to be left out of the lives of those who would hold office. Webster also wrote, “Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.” The founders undeniably knew that truth for good living comes from God’s moral teachings.

 All the things that are mentioned above involve freedom, truth, and liberty which the founders knew were only possible when government is limited and when God is honored.  Yet those listed above hold positions that are opposite of the ideals spoken by the founders. For those above to admit that the founders and the Constitution are right and that they are wrong, exposes that their agenda and the rulings against God in public life aren’t the truth. To admit that God is truth would destroy their hold on the people, their power, and self assumed importance. That they can’t allow and that is the truth.

01-28-2005 DEC