What Would Happen if Christians Took Over a State and Tried to Create a State Church?
by So I got to thinking the other day… Since after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution there were multiple states that still had established churches …
Category: Church and State
Fundamentalist Atheists—America’s Taliban
There are many Atheists that are content to live peaceably with their neighbors. They live and work within this country, and seek no ill will– …
How is it that a Person Praying at Commencement is an Establishment of Religion?
One of the things that always baffles me every year is around commencement time. How have we gotten to the point where we accept that …
Is The United States a Christian Nation?
In a recent post explaining my acceptance of some libertarian ideas, I made the passing reference to the fact that America is, and has been …
Faith and Freedom
We’ve been talking– or writing– a lot about the founding of our nation, both here and in comments on other blogs. What I’ve struggled the …
Is There a Benefit to Equality in Education?
A few weeks ago we talked about Morality in education using as a springboard the whole topic of homosexuality in the public school system. Core …
James Madison
Any in depth look into the Freedom of Religion in the U.S. Constitution must, at some point, take up the subject of James Madison. He …