In South Carolina of all places, a monument to fallen police officers contributed only a few weeks ago by a local ladies club, was taken down because it had a Christian prayer on it.
It was placed in front of the police station. Some residents complained so the Tega Cay City Council removed the word ’Lord’ from the stone memorial. That infuriated more people so they removed it completely.
They will replace it with something.
On the front, the memorial had the Scripture reference Matthew 5:9 from Jesus’ famous Sermon on the Mount, which says, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
And on the back of the stone was a prayer: “Lord, I ask for courage. Courage to face and conquer my own fears, courage to take me where others will not go…Give me Lord, concern for others who trust me and compassion for those who need me. And please Lord, through it all, be at my side.”
Whether these atheists like it or not, this country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and it is those principles that made this country great.
One group behind this is the hateful Freedom from Religion Foundation which goes around removing God from the public square.
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Separating God and state doesn’t mean banishing God.
A lot of this is driven by a minority of hate-filled people who want to control everything.
People really have to start hitting back at these nasty people.
We need a definitive court case to the Supreme Court NOW that shows this is bullsheet. The Founder’s first draft of the Constitution had “respecting an establishment of a Christian religion”. They took out the Christian due to Jews here and maybe because some Roman Catholics didn’t go by the term “Christian” (a million here’s ago when I was in elementary school I knew a girl who was a Catholic and didn’t go by the label “Christian”). IT MAKES ZERO SENSE THAT THE FOUNDERS WHO READ THE BIBLE, PUT BIBLES IN THEIR PORTRAITS, HAD BIBLE VERSES INSCRIBED ON THEIR BUILDINGS, DID BIBLE STUDIES IN CONGRESSIONAL CHAMBERS, AND PRAYED OFTEN AT MEETINGS, WOULD PUT AN AMENDMENT IN THE CONSTITUTION THAT WOULD MAKE THOSE THINGS ILLEGAL!! DUH!!
this is a misinterpretation of the Constitution, and we need it rectified.
No where do the founding fathers want God removed from our society, they left a Europe where the church had infiltrated the government, the two institutions were bound together, and this is where the “religious intolerance” came from, the Founding fathers thinking was not ,…NO RELIGION,….but rather , FREEDOM of religion, free to practice , free to proclaim, …..this is lunacy removing a memorial because it had a prayer on it, and this is exactly the opposite of what the fathers had in mind.They couldn’t even fathom us removing this memorial they are turning in their graves.
SAD
Whenever an out of state organization gets involved in local issues it is usually at the request or to support local citizens. When that is the case it should be required to name the local citizen(s) or the issue dismissed. When an outside organization sticks its nose into local affairs without local citizens involved the should be directed to “butt out” as they have no standing.
They are insidiously insipid midget minded little people…that fail to realize that their anti religion stance IS a religion…embracing the ideology of the “father of lies”….