Steve

Welcome back, Jack! I was really becoming concerned about you. I was going to ask the boys to go and check on you to see if they could find a pulse. But I realized that you haven’t generally shown a lot of life for quite some time. Finding any of your vital signs could only successfully be performed by highly trained professionals.

Little freckle-faced Billy Bob skipped happily into the school’s front doors. Being a Bible Belt Christian, he wasn’t very smart, but he worked hard. And as the old saying goes, “Even a blind hawg finds an acorn every now and then”, Billy Bob had regularly had a small measure of success. And, besides, today was the first day that he actually had a pair of shoes.

Ordinarily class started with the recitation of the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’, but today, as the teacher explained, this pledge had to be altered. Billy Bob was stunned. After all, it took him halfway through his second year in the 1st grade before he could fully recite it from memory. And now he had to learn it all over again. The explanation given left him unsure whether he was afoot or horseback. One thing he did understand, however, was that a panel of federal judges actively opposed religion, ruling that God could have no place wherever government was involved. He knew God wasn’t dead, but why wasn’t he welcome anymore? Why didn’t those judges study the history of the Constitution and its formation? When did they amend the 1st Amendment to read, “The government has no business either supporting or opposing religion.”?

Billy Bob hoped that he would still be able to bring his Bible to school and read it in free time. He hoped he could still write essays on spiritual matters and give Christian literature to and pray for his classmates while telling them about Christ.

Billy Bob knew that civil government had tentacles in almost everything these days and wondered how much further it would choose to exercise its sovereignty in the affairs of the plebeians.

Billy Bob was a landlubber, but wondered if Dennis could spare a little room.

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The Supreme Court Building has ordered itself to replace the Ten Commandment twice existing within itself with The Thirteen Liberal Commandments as listed on a previous post.

Trivia Question– Who said the following?

“But the greatest injury of the “wall” notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights... The “wall of separation between church and State” is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.”