I watched this interview the other day - watch it here - and realized this man, Dan Barker, who's leading this atheist group (FFRF) is not aware of how ignorant he is about this issue based on what he said regarding separation of church & state; as though it's in the Constitution, from what he says.
Then, later that evening, as I was reading Bill O'Reilly's latest book, "Killing the Rising Sun", I read this passage about how F.D.R. exhorts the nation to keep their soldiers fighting in the Pacific in their prayers:
Chapter 5 - Pg. 42
"As Colonel Kunio Nakagawa commits ritual suicide in a dark Pelilin cave, the man to whom he prays for courage sits down for lunch of dumpling soup and vegetables. In America, it is Thanksgiving, and President Franklin Roosevelt issues a special exhortation. He encourages citizens not just to give thanks but to read their own version of Scripture every day between now and Christmas to ensure 'a renewed and strengthening contact with those eternal truths and majestic principles which inspired such measure of true greatness as this nation has achieved.'."
How does this act by a president - obviously asking the Christian nation to read their Bible - square with this man's remark that a public school teacher is a "government employee" and thereby should not be making a religion the nation's preferential one? Oops!!!
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