Separation of Church & State: The Reasons for It

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Friday July 27, 2007 · 4:40 PM PDT

2007/07/27 · 16:40

I recently made a website about Thomas Jefferson's views on religion and science, using excerpts from his letters and papers. Please consider visiting it at

http://ThomasJeffersonSpeaks.blogspo...

Some responses I got made me realize that many Americans don't know why the Founders advocated the separation of church and state; they don't know the relevant history and they don't know the work of John Locke. I'm hoping that readers of this site will read the following and spread the word.

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Friday June 29, 2007 · 5:06 AM PDT

2007/06/29 · 05:06

Two years ago I sent a letter to The Nation, correcting a writer who referred to the current president as George II. If we follow the numbering practice of monarchist nations, I said, our George I was George Washington; then come the two George Bushes. George III was also amusing because of the negative reputation of that monarch in U.S. history.

But George III was a constitutional monarch, relatively constrained in his ability to act. We have to go back to the 1600s to find a royal counterpart to George W. Bush.

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Thursday June 28, 2007 · 6:48 AM PDT

2007/06/28 · 06:48

Ann Coulter's specialty is ad-hominem attacks. There's no beef to her opinions, no facts underlying her claims. No appeals can reach her, immune as she is to empathy, conscience, shame, or remorse. She's like Paris Hilton--thin, faux-blond, exhibitionistic, style without substance--but she lives off some self-produced meth that fuels her cold, violent, and merciless assaults on other people's vulnerabilities.

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"Detainees" & Republican Newspeak

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Saturday June 23, 2007 · 2:12 AM PDT

2007/06/23 · 02:12

I've tried to be alert to the Republican misuse of the English language. Who could ignore the egregious "enhanced interrogation techniques" as an inflated, rampantly misleading euphemism for "torture"? But only recently did "detainee" catch my attention.

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Friday June 22, 2007 · 1:41 AM PDT

2007/06/22 · 01:41

The presidential pardon is a vestige of monarchy. During Henry VIII’ s reign, the monarch’s ability to pardon was officially approved by Parliament. Rulers could act according to the dictates of their own hearts. Against the advice of her counselors, Henry’s daughter, Eizabeth I, pardoned her suitor, Sir Robert Dudley, despite his treasonable behavior.

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