The Myth of Separation

What the Supreme court decided is absolutely unconstitutional! Read this book.

I have read David Barton's book and found it very informative and well written. He carefully documents what he has written. He shows what the founding fathers said not what some said they said. Mr. Barton has show beyond a reasonable doubt that the current interpretation by the Supreme Court is not a reasonable interpreation of the constitution which they are sworn to uphold, but a cleaverly disguised attempt by the Court to establish a state religion which congress is prohibited from doing. By removing Christianity from the social and political life of the nation the Supreme court has established Humanism and it's origins doctrine of Evolution as the state religion. This is not the religion of the people but the religion of the Supreme Court. David Bartion shows the historical context and intent of the founders regarding there attitude about religion. (When the founding fathers used the term religion they meant Christianity because all else was false religion.) The intent was to keep the government from establishing any sect of Christianity from being made the state religion and from compelling anyone to worship as the state dictated. The First Amendment is to prohibit congress from establishing a state religion and to keep them from telling you and me how we can worship. The constitution does not say anything about prohibiting you or me from worshiping or practicing our religion as we please. The Supreme Court has over stepped it's boundaries by making law where none exists. (If congress can make no law on this issue then no law can exist on this issue.)Anyone who would review this book and not understand the true history it reveals must have prejudice and bias against God and Christianity which is beyond reasoning with.

Barton's first attempt to clarify Jefferson's true meaning behind the statesman's call to maintain "a wall of separation between church and state" and the twisted interpretation of his phrase (nowhere to be found in the Constitution by the way) by twentieth century courts is admirable, if a bit hastily put together. Finally, someone willing to show us how WE can determine the truth about Americas foundational principles and the liberal attempts to take advantage of our freedoms, and seek their own political ends. Barton gives all American's the keys they are denied by public education, and shows how these keys, found by researching original documents, are available to all American's to research for themselves and make their own determination about the Original Intent our forefathers died to preserve. Jefferson himself, according to Barton, and according to Jefferson's voluminous writings, would take a bullet to protect American's freedom to practice any religion, any way they wish. His desire was to separate the Anglican church and her huge financial power from influence over the government of Great Britain. That church controlled the worship practices and titheing of all other denominations and thus denied the freedoms of Baptists, Presbyters, and all other religions. The founders, and Jefferson, were profoundly religious people, as they all (with the exception of two out of 200, Franklin converting later in his life) recognized that rights come not from men or governments, but from our Creator. Jefferson wanted to keep the government away from religion, not free expression of religion away from those that govern. Barton shows how this common-sense distinction has been perverted by twentieth century courts, and he does so (a process perfected in his latest work "Original Intent")by encouraging you and I to search the documents of our forefathers and modern (post-1945)court documents to determine for ourselves if we have been duped by those who would take the founders words out of context so as to impose increasing government restrictions on Americas originally inclusive policy of total freedom from oppressive governing bodies. Barton demonstrates, much more clearly in his later work "Original Intent," that the founders, particularly Jefferson and Washington, intended for government to be a strictly limited tool of the people, and that religion was to continue as the totally free moral foundation upon which American's would enact and abide by a moral form of self-government. Barton shows how modern courts have misrepresented, rather successfully,the Original Intent so as to put the State in an advisory,paternalistic, and ultimately hostile role over the practice of religion, when the true Original Intent was to let the moral decency of all, shaped by their devotion to God and God's expectations of civil behavior, to determine the healthy, limited size and shape of our government. I recommend this book if

David Barton dares to actually delve into historical records to reveal a time when separation of church and state as we know it today was a nonexistent. Supreme Court decisions, state court decisions, and debates in the early Congresses show what the founding fathers truly meant when they ratified the first amendment. Separation of church and state was an issue before the 1947 Everson case, and the Supreme Court as well as other bodies handled it vastly differently than they do today. This book is highly recommended to anyone wishing to know the truth about separation of church and state.