Whoopi Goldberg Dumb on Separation of Church and State
By J. Grant Swank Jr. (09/13/08)
On “The View” Whoopi Goldberg continued to press John McCain on whether or not he and Sarah Palin were for “separation of church and state.”
Goldberg does not realize that that phrase means this: no denomination is sanctioned as the “state church” as in England the Anglican Church is same.
Americans have never supported one denomination as the “state church” and they never will.
But Americans do support religion in public life for it has always been that way. Settlers came to America for religious freedom of expression. That religion happened to be Judeo-Christian—not Buddhist or Hindu or Muslim or Satanism or New Age or atheism or agnosticism.
It was the belief in the God of the Bible. Preachers delivered sermons from the Bible. Students were taught biblical morality in classrooms. Communities centered their faith on the power of prayer to the God of the Bible.
Goldberg does not get any of that. For admiring herself as such an intellectual liberal, she is liberal but not intellectual. Goldberg would be so delighted to set in place the secularization of the Republic.
Joy Behar on “The View” applauds Goldberg’s position. The two are given to the cause of wiping out Judeo-Christian heritage from America’s past, present and future. In fact, they are rudely aggressive on this issue.
John McCain responded masterfully. He spoke of America’s forefathers believing in God, His providence, citizens’ desires to live in the divine will and his own personal reliance upon the Christian faith.
John McCain referred to the Judeo-Christian heritage in particular. He spoke of God’s support in his own soul while confined as a prisoner of war. He spoke of his family’s leaning upon divine support.
In all of his response to Goldberg, John McCain set forth a venue in which all Americans can find religious balance.
At the same time, John McCain stated his support for those who have no religion or other religions. But his accent was that this particular nation has a particular heritage—Judeo-Christian—that should be honored and kept intact.
Goldberg was left with her jaw hanging on the floor, a position which she rightfully deserved for asking a worn question to which she should have long ago known the accurate answer to.
Likewise Joy Behar was left mute. Thank God.
FOOTNOTE: THE TRUTH ABOUT ‘SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE’
Liberals have run off with this phrase, prostituting it per usual.
The matter is simple. It’s this: America does not want a state church. England has a state church — the Anglican Church. America does not want one denomination considered The Nation’s Church.
On the other hand, America has a religious heritage. It’s not Muslim. It’s not Hindu. It’s not Shinto. It’s not animism. It’s not New Age. It’s not Paganism. It’s not Voodoo. It’s Judeo-Christian.
America, while not desiring a state church, does desire religion in life. That includes religious expression in everyday exchange. Because Judeo-Christian is America’s heritage, most citizens honor that heritage expressed and honored. Its expression then should not be thwarted. It should not be belittled. It should not be erased in the name of “separation of church and state.”
Unhampered religious expression is promised in the First Amendment.
Further, America, having a Judeo-Christian heritage and the right to present-tense expression, permits freedom of religious expression to other religions. Therefore, there are those of other religious persuasions who practice without fear their religions in America.
What the liberals want to do is redefine the phrase “separation of church and state” to exclude Judeo-Christian religious expression in America. They want not only “separation of church and state” defined on their terms but the exclusion of the Judeo-Christian religion and anything coming close to that particular religious expression—period.
Liberals believe that if they continue harping on the “separation of church and state” phrase, brainwashing the public with their prostituted definition, especially indoctrinating the next generation with their prostituted definition, then they will have won secularism for America’s future.
They, in other words, want not only separation but exclusion of religion — completely so. Note however that the chief religion they want excluded is Judeo-Christian.
They will even tolerate other religions, as they are presently doing with the Muslim infiltration, but it is Judeo-Christian that they want cleansed from America. In other words, it’s a religious cleansing they desire for this nation — the extinguishing specifically of the Judeo-Christian faith.
Therefore, if tolerating another religion such as Islam helps wipe out Judeo-Christianity, then so be it. Islam is far better a tolerance than the American heritage of Judeo-Christian. Therefore, there are school districts hiring Muslims to speak to teachers on how to give Muslim students honor and space. No such invitation, of course, has been extended to Judeo-Christian specialists speaking to public school educators on how to give Judeo-Christian adherents honor and space.
In a nearby high school, a prayer room was set aside for Muslim students. No such prayer room or any other respect has been presented those of the Judeo-Christian heritage.
Liberals, in other words, will do whatever it takes to obliterate America of its rightful Judeo-Christian heritage. This is accented every year particularly during the Christmas season. Any other so-called “religious expression” can come to the fore but the Christian particulars must be silenced at all costs. So we hear throughout the Christmas season, not Christian hymn carols, but “separation of church and state.”
Once again, liberals have taken language to serve their own twisted purposes. They took “homosexual” and made it “gay.” They took “pro-choice” and made it “protecting females.” They take “separation of church and state” and make it “wiping out America’s Judeo-Christian heritage.”
What those of the Judeo-Christian heritage must do — and far more concertedly than they have ever done in the past — is to make clear to the public what “separation of church and state” really means. This must be put in print in magazines and journals. It must be preached from pulpits. It must be taught in religion classes. It must be spelled out in letters to the editor.
Unfortunately, this simply has not been done. The church in particular has permitted the liberals to carry on with their prostitution of the phrase. I have been appalled over the years to note that the church specifically has not risen to expose the liberals’ misuse of that phrase. Therefore, the young have taken quickly to the liberals’ definition while the church has sat, in the main, silent, allowing the enemy to win out.
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