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In reply to the discussion: I had an abortion... [View all]slightlv
(2,915 posts)This is Originalism writ of whole cloth, msfiddlestix! Where do you think separation of church of state came from? And why it was written so deeply about in in the Federalist Papers? The Founders MEANT to keep a wide WALL of separation between the Church and the State. They had already seen what could happen in the countries from which they came.
But the very minute people disembarked from the boats, they set up their own little religious communes and many in those little communes made them very, very tribal. They ran others out for not believing as they did. This country has been involved in religious warfare from the very beginning, IMNSHO. I absolutely abhor most "deeply religious" Christian followers. I have met very few of them who actually try their best to walk Christ's path. But oh, they spew the words with much venom and vehemence!
I swear, may this century see not only the last of the putrid patriarchy die the death it should have died centuries ago, but may the spread of that dominant fundamentalist Christianity die along with it, along with fundamentalist and extremist religion of ALL types and sects all over the world.
To my ever-loving horror as a Pagan, I even have to include one of our own strains in this morass. The Neo-Nazi's have recruited and taken over several of the sacred symbols of the ancient Asatru. To their honor, Asatru groups around the world have yelled loudly they are not associated with these white supremacists and have paid the price at times. They plan to keep fighting to separate their name from the hate-mongers, which is what we all must do, as more and more of who and what we are as good, humane, caring people are appropriated, disfigured, and renamed. The Deism of the majority of the Founders had more in common with the way I belief than anyone on the SCOTUS at the moment - their "originalism" be damned to Hell!