Dangerous Ignorance

The Gideons who give away free Bibles have not only been banished from our schools, but banished even from sidewalks near our schools

From the Illinois Herald News:

"They were a little too close to impressionable children," said Patricia Cross, principal at Jefferson. "(Gideons representatives) quoted freedom of speech, but I also told them there's separation of church and state."

The funny thing is, you can point to the former in the U.S. Constitution, but you'll never find the latter there.

I find it hard to express how sad--and how frightening--it is that the people of the United States have become not only so ignorant of their Christian heritage, but so ignorant of their own freedoms and their own Constitution that they'd liken handing out a Bible to handing out porn.

George Washington said in his farewell address of 1796

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens...Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Are people going to rise up and condemn this rabid secularism before it's too late?