Crazier by the minute
Katherine Harris, she gets crazier by the minute. Here's what the Florida Baptist Witness quotes her as saying,
[A hat tip to Raw Story]
We have to have the faithful in government and over time, that lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers.Let's just hope all her potential voters believe that and don't turn out to vote because God will do it for them.
[A hat tip to Raw Story]
posted by walldon | 5:02 PM
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Hmm. The serious issue in here is that the "separation of church and state" is not the same thing as assuming one's faith and one's politics are not connected. At the time of the writing of the Constitution, the Thirty Years War was not yet forgotten (though it is now-- wonder if Ms. Harris has heard of it?), and the 13 states had, as colonies, reflected a rather diverse set of (Christian) faiths that in Europe had each made claims to being a state religion (excepting William Penn's Quakerism).
Of course, further in the original article, Harris says,
if people aren’t involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we’re going to have a nation of secular laws. That’s not what our founding fathers intended and that’s certainly isn’t what God intended.
Well, I am pretty sure that the founding fathers did intend for us to be a nation of secular laws. That's why Religion can not be "Established".
And, as I recall, Baptists were the most disenfranchised religion in the 17th & 18th centuries: they valued separation of church and state, as a condition of their legal existence! As a "free church," individual conscience was a supreme value in Baptist circles.
Ironically many Baptists (such as, it seems, the FBW) have forgotten all about this aspect of their own history and identity.
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