Tom Gregg
Tom Gregg
Nov 4 · 1 min read

No, it wouldn’t be achievable, because the only way to get a government that has nothing to do with Jesus would be to exclude all observant Christians from government. The constitutional principle of separation of church and state is not and cannot be a positive doctrine, for religion could be positively excluded from government only by excluding actual religious believers, or by insisting that they separate their political beliefs from their religious beliefs: either measure being not only a violation of their rights but a practical impossibility. The establishment clause, to give the constitutional church/state provision its proper name, is on the contrary negative: (1) no government interference in religion, whether by recognizing an official national church or by favoring one religion over another, and (2) no political role for organized religion as such, e.g. official representation within government or any kind of religious veto over government decisions. More than that the First Amendment cannot do.

We’ve seen that the attempt to banish religion entirely from the public square has led to division and disaffection—in my view quite unnecessarily. Done supposedly in the name of inclusion and sensitivity, it merely makes people dislike one another more. My own attitude toward atheists has evolved from indifference to annoyance thanks to their constant whining and crying and time-wasting lawsuits over crosses in public parks and manger scenes on public property, etc. and so forth. They say they don’t believe in God, but they act as if they Do and bear Him a grudge.

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