Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  Our Constitution calls for Church and State to be separate. This is common sense for a variety of reasons, Theology has no place in politics, a specific religion would have to be primary, and just like any group of 3 or more you have disagreements and religious leaders more than most.

  So along comes the 2016 election and all of a sudden we have public money being made available to church schools. What other purpose is money from the tax coffers being redirected to religious organizations?  Does it really matter? No, the point is that either someone in the GOP went to the religious leaders and proposed a deal or they came and asked for one that called for them to support Trump for a price.

  This is the same kind of deal that started with the Vatican and Mussilini and then with HItler and tax money was provided to Christian faiths to support the actions of 2 Fascist leaders. That agreement was never revoked in Germany  and the churches are still getting public funds. The hypocrisy of that action allowed the death of 6 million Jews without major protest. The cost of the war to the christian world was about 20 million lives.

  The hypocrisy of the religious right in this country is that they feel that they are somehow supposed to tell the rest of society how to conduct our lives in all things. This includes who we can marry, racially and gender wise, what we can do with our personal health and who we can allow into this country based on faith. Now that they have their hand in the collective pocket they no longer need fain loyalty to the guy that got them there, which is okay by me. However, they would like to put the stamp of one faith on everything and require adherence to that selection.

  Not being a biblical scholar some of my observations sound pretty much off course, but if Jesus died on the cross to absolve mankind of all sin what is the purpose of going to church and praying? If Adam and Eve are the original humans and they are the parents of only sons, where did the rest of us come from? If Eve was made from Adam’s rib and they had sex is that not a form of incest? Just a few of the questions that never seem to have  satisfactory answers.

  Did the founders desire this nation to have a specific faith to follow? Since the majority of the founders were Masons and they only request that a belief be made, not a particular faith be named, then it leaves it open to the individual. This of course, is to WOKE for the current batch of religious and many of the political leaders to be comfortable with. Personal choice, not let us tell you how to believe, which way to vote, how to sleep with, convince you the Sun rises in the West, we can’t have that sort of nonsense getting in the way of our Bull Shit.