Ron Paul For President in 2008

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Ron Paul's OWN WORDS:

"The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government’s hostility to religion. The establishment clause of the First Amendment was simply intended to forbid the creation of an official state church like the Church of England, not to drive religion out of public life.

"The Founding Fathers envisioned a robustly Christian yet religiously tolerant America, with churches serving as vital institutions that would eclipse the state in importance. Throughout our nation’s history, churches have done what no government can ever do, namely teach morality and civility. Moral and civil individuals are largely governed by their own sense of right and wrong, and hence have little need for external government. This is the real reason the collectivist Left hates religion: Churches as institutions compete with the state for the people’s allegiance, and many devout people put their faith in God before their faith in the state. Knowing this, the secularists wage an ongoing war against religion, chipping away bit by bit at our nation’s Christian heritage. Christmas itself may soon be a casualty of that war."

So, CHURCHES THAT ECLIPSE THE STATE IN IMPORTANCE on the earthly plane. How is that not theocracy?

By the way: "Moral and civil individuals are largely governed by their own sense of right and wrong, and hence have little need for external government." Yeah, except for the IMMORAL and UNCIVIL ones we have to be protected against.

Ron Paul: "The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers."

Thomas Jefferson: "thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." HE INVENTED THE PHRASE.

"Knowing this, the secularists wage an ongoing war against religion, chipping away bit by bit at our nation’s Christian heritage. Christmas itself may soon be a casualty of that war." Yes, that's exactly the kind of man I trust not to try to break down the secular nature of our government.

There's a lot more that I object to in those two paragraphs, but I have to work twelve hours tomorrow -- make that today.