Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence with the influence of Tom Paine and other founding fathers of the United States of America. The wisdom of these men was astonishing. They were adamant about keeping any absolutist law religion out of the government for good reason. James Madison actually expressed wanting a wall to separate the two institutions.
Any government that gets entrapped in the clutches of radical hidebound religion is doomed. The reason why Europeans migrated to indigenous lands that became British colonial America was to get away from Catholicism and the Puritan Church of England. After coming through the bloody cross-bearing Crusades and the torturous religious Inquisition that stretched to death on machines anyone who disagreed with the hierarchies, the victims demanded secular religion.
Now Cruz and Rubio want to regress and go back in time plunging the entire nation back to the dark ages. Right now the Middle East is still cursed by futile law religions killing infidels in civil wars and proxy wars, what Catholics and Protestants used to do on a regular day. Even Michael Servetus, an educated medical scientist who was studying the pulmonary system, was savagely burned at the stake for not adhering to church dogma.
However, neither Cruz nor Rubio and the other fundamental candidates know their history since they are ingrained in absolutist theology and evangelicalism. They think they are better than Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and the rest of our founding fathers and the women behind them when it comes to politics.
God help us all!
Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)
