In Case Anyone Missed This ...

... the federal courts ruled that "In God We Trust" doesn't violate the First Amendment "imagined" separation of "church and state." It is a decision that Carol terms as "ceremonial deism." I agree.

This shows just how far the courts have fallen--to declare that "In God We Trust" has become so secularized that it carries no danger to First Amendment rights--in the failure to recognize what that term really means to America. As Thomas Jefferson opined in the Declaration of Independence:

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We derived our strength from God when this nation was formed. Forget the revisionists that want to bring up this or that about the Founding Fathers. They came here to worship freely, and to exercise the laws that God laid down for them. A new nation, free of oppression; one war fought to free itself from the "motherland," and another to "re-unify" the nation, as a whole. We have shed our blood for the notion that through the hand of providence we have stayed around for 230 years, living in relative peace and prosperity.

I'm appalled that the court would n't recognize that, but is willing to basically say: Hey, it's OK; No one does 'God' anymore, and any time that the government gets it's hands on it that it's a 'secular' statement now. It isn't a 'divine' statement.

And the Left would have us believe that the courts are OK. Uh huh. Tell me another one.

Publius II