In the face of the mindless greed exhibited by ‘Faith Liaisons’ and deafened by penniless ministers from coast to coast crying for Federal aid and our tax money while they sit in tax free houses running tax exempt businesses we forget as a nation the tortures that birthed our nation.

We forget the pains suffered by the martyrs in the early days of America. The young men and women stripped and gouged and whipped and burned and tortured and hung from the highest bow. We forget the children who were imprisoned or torn away from their parents during decades of religious fighting here in America while our country was forming.

Because these images have faded from our eyes and these sounds have fallen from our ears our nation begins to fall backwards.

Money goes to those who profess the ‘right’ way. Advantage goes to those who worship the ‘correct’ way.

It was attitudes like these that led to the excesses of ignorance that finally forced the necessity of our Constitution and the guarantee of Freedom of Religion. It was death and pain and mindless obedience that led this nation to declare a separation between church and state.

What many forget these days is that the Constitution struck down laws establishing religions and also struck down laws forbidding the free expression of religion.

These days we see a resurgence of the ignorance that led to government sanctioned religions – tying up needed capital and wasting time.

That road is closed by law.