Today Mitt Romney told National Cathedral Magazine that "some" Americans have taken the separation of church and state thing too far, "well beyond its original meaning."
Mitt Romney proceeded to botch history and re-invent history by falsely claiming that the Founders didn't intend for the People to really have Freedom from religion.
"ROMNEY: In recent years, the notion of the separation of church and
state has been taken by some well beyond its original meaning. They seek to remove from the public domain any acknowledgment of God.
What! The only time I have seen any group of people get demonized in the public domain for their "God" is when so-called Christians demonize Muslims.
For the factual record, Muslim's Holy Book is identical to the Christian's Old Testament. Same stories, same punishments, same people in both books. In fact, the Islamic Holy Book explains that Muslims pray to the exact same God that the so-called Christians pray to. And to top it off, the Islamic Holy Book explains Muslims are descendents of the exact same Abraham the Christian's claim to be descendants of. So, I always find it ironic when so-called Christians demonize the God Muslim's pray to and their Holy Book. Oh, but I digress -- back to Mitt Romney and his ignorant, factually wrong comments.
Mitt Romney went on to totally screw-up and lie about the "intent" of the authors of the First Amendment.
ROMNEY: The Founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation “Under God,” and in God, we do indeed trust.
Mitt Romney could not be more effing wrong! The "
in God we trust" mantra was
first coined in 1814 in response to the War of 1812 and had absolutely
nothing to do with our Founding Father's work on the First Amendment.
The First Amendment was written in 1789 which is factually 25 years before Francis Scott Key first coined the phrase the fourth stanza of the Star Spangled Banner. Not the first stanza, not even the second or third, but the fourth stanza.
Francis Scott Key was not a Founding Father and he had nothing to do with the drafting of the First Amendment. In fact, Francis Scott Key was 10 years old when the First Amendment was drafted and I can assure Mitt Romney that the Founders looked to European Philosophers, not a 10 year old boy, in their ideas in forming and drafting the First Amendment.
Those idiots, like Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and all the other freaks who want America to be one nation under one God are the antithesis of what the Founders meant in the First Amendment.
Here's where I explain why I think Romney and Ryan want America to live in the Inquisition Period.
INQUISITION PERIODS (plural)
Spanish Inquisition (1478–1834),
the Portuguese Inquisition (1536–1821) and
the Roman Inquisition (1542 – 1860).
Notice, the ending date of all of those Inquisition Periods are after the First Amendment was written. Meaning, and this is extremely important, the First Amendment was written during the Inquisition Periods.
For those who have forgotten their Inquisition History, Mitt Romney, the Inquisition Period was a period that spanned hundreds of years, in which the Church would brutally torture and murder people if the "Grand Master Inquisitor" even just thought that person did not believe in "one" God. Whose God? Oh, well the God of the "one" man, the Pope, who appointed the Grand Master Inquisitor of course.
There was no glamor during the Inquisition Period. People were forced to believe in "one" man's God. The Pope ordered the Grand Master Inquisitors to kill: Jews, Atheists, Baptists, Buddhists, Hindus, Authors, Philosophers, children and others who did not believe in that "one" man's God.
Some who were suspected of not believing in the Pope's one God, were raped, tortured, imprisoned and hung in public and left hanging until rigamortis set in. By the way, I am not Pope-bashing, I am just presenting indisputable, factual history.
ALLOW ME TO GIVE ROMNEY A FREE EDUCATION:
The real Founding Fathers, who really wrote the First Amendment got their inspiration for the First Amendment from European Philosophers, like Voltaire and John Locke, who wrote about the horrors, brutality and vulgarity that "the People" suffered from having to publicly and privately believe in "one" man's God during the Inquisition Period -- of which those Philosophers had first hand experience as they were living through the Inquisition Period because it was not over.
Voltaire: Lived in France during the Inquisition Period. As he got older, he had been beaten, imprisoned and exiled to England for speaking out against the hypocrisies in the Catholic church and against French noblemen. Voltaire acknowledged that the only thing that spared him from being executed was the fact that Voltaire's father was a nobleman and friend of the King of France.
Voltaire's writing often spelled out for his readers that those in power will beat you until and murder those you love until you become "good blind followers." In my opinion, Voltaire's best work on underscoring the tyranny, oppression and brutality of forcing "God in the public square" is, "Candide." Brilliant, brilliant novel!
Needless to say, Voltaire wrote about the importance that all people should have Freedom of Speech and Freedom from religion.
John Locke also focused on the Inquisition in his work and Freedom from religion in his works. But, while Voltaire hammered out the injustices of religious intolerance, John Locke attacked the cruel and absurd mind-set behind it.
In Locke's "Letters of Toleration", Locke insisted the power of a civilized government relates only to men's civil interests and a civilized government should be confined to the care of the things of this world, and have nothing to do with the world beyond this life.
Locke explained that the Church was a voluntary society of men based on unconfirmed opinions.
Locke stressed that no person should be controlled by outside forces and religion has no place within any civilized government.
Locke, Voltaire and other European Philosophers were willing to risk everything to make their independence and ideas on freedom from religion known. In doing so, these men gave our "Founding Fathers" strength to draft the First Amendment to include Freedom from Religion.
It was the writings of Locke and Voltaire that inspired the "Founders" to insist that Federal Law guarantee the People's right to Freedom from religion.
Quiz:
Who did the Founders get their inspiration for the First Amendment from:
a) Volter, Locke and other European philosophers who wrote about the horrors the People endure when a Government gets involved in People's religion, or
b) a 10 year old boy, Francis Scott Key, who 25 years after the 1st Amendment was written would coin the phrase "In God we trust" in the 4th Stanza of a poem he wrote as a result of the War of 1812