In Defense of Secularism

OK, don't tell me Hitler who wanted to revive old European paganism and liked Hindu Swastika was a true Catholic. Genghis Khan was not a budhist. Seems like Dracon has a major problem.

Wow, even in the 1970s, kids were being wrongly indoctrinated. The Constitution did not create a secular government, as the author's teacher wrongly taught, but a governemnt that does not suppress any religion. Our inalianable rights come from our Creator, not our government. The governemnt cannot supress religious speech or expression, as stated in the very first ammendment written in the bill of rights. The notion of 'seperation' is not even a law but a legal idea.

while it is true that the seperation of church and state insures that we do not have to accept any paticular ideology in order live in comparative freedom and saftey, it is also true that faith has come under attack in this country; as though it were something to be discarded because it is no longer needed in the intellectual enlightenment of the 21st century. We,because of this train of thought do not need God because we have become God. Then tragedy strikes,and we find that in our dispair, our search for why, we realize that we are not God...and we seek answers and comfort from the one who is.

I've just received another e-mail from well meaning family and friends who believe America should become a theocracy. Like sheep to slaughter they find solace in like thinking of blind followership that they tout as leadership. They mean well, I tell myself. These are nice people who don't understand their destructive nature, I say. Yet, I look to the future of what they would make; the future of force and destruction in the name of religious mono-thinking. I am scared for who we as Americans are and who we will become if these people succeed. I pray for reasonable minds and secular societies and I am proud of being a patriot.

I think you meant to write that "secular" *doesn't* mean "godless."