Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "The Evangelical Divide Over Religion in Politics" video.

@lamarmcalister2449 Oh, so the U.S. should become a theocracy, then? I'm sure a small group of people (or, as you put it, one man) won't take advantage of that and proclaim themselves ordained by God to rule... oh, wait You're fucking ridiculous. Secularism is not anti-theism. It is unconcerned with religion, not opposed to it. The Founding Fathers wanted people to be free to believe whatever they so pleased, but to not let that influence their earthly political decisions— or at least as little as possible. They went our of their way to not mention a Christian God, going so far as to say 'Laws of Nature and Nature's God' and 'endowed by their Creator' (all nouns were capitalized in that period) because Enlightenment values (and the example set by King George) compelled them to exclude the idea of a theocracy of any kind. No mention of Jesus, the Bible, Moses, nothing. It wasn't one man making the choice, it was the entire team.
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@lamarmcalister2449 That list isn't exhaustive, and what does that prove exactly? The idea behind a wall between church and state isn't for the state to zealously guard your right to faith, it's to stay out of religious matters altogether. Jefferson wanted them separate.
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@Overquoted This again? Do I need to pull out the quote? The separation of church and state was created to keep religion out of governance. Its adherents aren't the target; the degree to which their piety affects their lawmaking is.
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