Worse than the banning of any reference to a supreme being from our schools is the secularization of our entire country where "In God We Trust" is on all our money and God and Creator permeate our founding documents. Our 50th world-ranked education system glosses over this. The founding fathers tried to protect us from an official state religion like they had in the countries we fled to form the USA not religion all together. Maybe they don't teach about God in school because there is no time between "Heather has two Mommies" and "25 ways to put a condom on a banana".
I actually started this tirade because the playing field is not level and Christians are not blameless. We have allowed the commercialized Santa and the Easter Bunny to bury the true significance of these sacred holidays. You never heard of the Ramadan Camel who brings falafel to all the good little girls and boys, have you? Or the Hanukah Horse that rides from house to house delivering latkes? No, I did not think you had, those religions would not stand for it. But Christians are perfectly content to have secular America abscond with the holiest of holy days and morph them into play dates for kids and paydays for merchants. Christians could learn a lot from our partners in the Judao-Christian tradition upon which America was founded. American Christians might also consider the American Islamic community's strong defense of their religious principles and resistance to secularization.
Lastly, the Sarasota Herald Tribune, our local newspaper, had articles about Easter on page 2. The feature article on page one was about the SUPER tourist season we have had. Along side it was an article about the legislative session in Tallahassee. Merchants and politicians win again.
Great comment and it is even greater that someone now in the land of false political correctness dares to raise the voice on these issues, values and principles, over which the country was founded.
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