The Separation of Church and State
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A
quiet revolution has occurred in America. The foundations of American
government were laid upon the principles of Christianity. Christian
principles in government were common in the Old World at the time of the
Declaration of Independence. But no government had ever been conceived upon
a set of principles intended to reflect both obedience to Old Testament law
and the New Testament principles of equality as taught by Reformation
theologians who attacked the principles underlying the church and state
establishment in the Old World. The statements in the Declaration of
Independence proclaimed, as self-evident truths, that all men are created
equal and are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights, are based on
principles unique to a Christian worldview deeply rooted in New Testament
theology. Not only were these principles understood and accepted by James
Madison, Thomas Jefferson and the remainder of the drafters and signers of
the Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution, and Bill of
Rights, but it was also understood and accepted that the new government was
to be built and made dependent upon these principles. Furthermore, as a
republic built upon principles of government by consent of the people, a
common understanding and acceptance by all of the people of these principles
was a prerequisite to sustaining the American form of government.
This common understanding
and acceptance of these original American principles has been lost. It has
been lost despite the legal requirement set by the founding fathers that our
principles, Constitution and laws must be in writing to be valid, so that
they would be understood by all people. It has been lost despite the
universal understanding that the Declaration of Independence, Constitution
and Bill of Rights incorporated those principles into a binding contract
between representatives of government institutions and the people. This
social contract, as a legal contract, is a unique characteristic of American
law. Modern Americans have no common understanding despite the drafters’
efforts to support, justify, document and memorialize their philosophy and
understanding of constitutional law keeping extensive records, recollections
of the proceedings, deliberations and positions underlying their actions,
during their debates and discussed in later correspondence. It has been lost
so that a new constitution can be inserted in place of the original—a
constitution based on sexual freedom and religious indifference—to justify a
new culture.
In recent times, the
United States Supreme Court, and advocates of an entirely different
philosophy of law rooted in an entirely contrary worldview, have corrupted
the written law by either misinterpreting or misunderstanding the principles
upon which the American government is based. This corruption of the law
depends upon a misinterpretation, or misapplication, of the principles of
the separation of church and state. This corruption has succeeded and is
currently maintained by a lack of a common understanding of the principles
of Christian self-government, from which the term separation of church and
state is derived, by the people for whose benefit the government was
created. Without a correct understanding of the original meaning of the
separation of church and state, the Declaration of Independence cannot be
understood and the Constitution and Bill of Rights are susceptible to
misinterpretation.