God: Please Go Away.

I worked and worked to find a way to begin this blog post that would entice readers in, while parrying and feigning away, and towards, the topic that I'm going to be discussing tonight.  But in the end, the only way to do this is, really, just to say it.

Keep your religion out of my government.

There are really no words to describe just how horrified I've been recently over the increasing amount of people crawling out of the woodwork demanding American values to be synonymous with Christian values.  Abortion, healthcare, homosexual marriage, the ten commandments, and don't even get me started on this fantasy-world "War on Christmas."

Let's be very clear about one thing right now: I do not mind religions.  What I DO mind is that, even with the establishment clause of the First Amendment, somehow people have gotten it into their heads that since this nation is, I will concede, mostly Christian, our government should mirror those Christian values.

We, as American people, should not stand for this.  There is a reason for the establishment clause, and it is valid and important.

As our government moves more and more towards the world of secularism, we start to be more accepting, as people.  The First Amendment guarantees that a person of ANY religion can be considered an American.  And America should never try to make anyone feel LESS American because they praise Allah, or Kali, or Zeus, or whichever Deity they choose.

I will say it once, just as many people have said before me: America is NOT a Christian nation, nor have we ever been, nor should we aspire to be.  We all know what happens when the government and religion of a country are one.  If that happens...

We have Rome, during the 1300s (give or take), when scientists were trying to make huge discoveries, but were silenced by the Catholic Church.

We have Spain, during the 14 and 1500s, murdering and causing mass terror in the name of the Church.

We have the Ottomans of the 1400s, conquering, murdering, pillaging, declaring jihads in the name of Islam.

There's a reason for the separation of church and state, and it should never be removed.  Because then, America looks a lot less like the home of the free, and begins to look like this:

Picture from Occupythegame.com