Now that we’ve established that Barack Hussein Obama is NOT one of us, let’s hear from a president who actually WAS ~
As you can plainly observe, Ronald Reagan really was a Christian. He didn’t just pretend to be be one to get elected. And he understood that America was founded on biblical principles ~
“Now I realize it’s fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible. That we’re told that will violate the constitutional separation of church and state established by the founding fathers in the First Amendment. The First Amendment was not written to protect people and their laws from religious values. It was written to protect those values from government tyranny.” ~ Ronald Reagan
The Constitution, including particularly the First Amendment, embodies the simple, just idea that each of us should be free to exercise his or her religious views without expecting that the government will endorse or promote those views and without fearing that the government will endorse or promote the religious views of others. By keeping government and religion separate, the establishment clause serves to protect the freedom of all to exercise their religion. Reasonable people may differ, of course, on how these principles should be applied in particular situations, but the principles are hardly to be doubted. Moreover, they are good, sound principles that should be nurtured and defended, not attacked. Efforts to undercut our secular government by somehow merging or infusing it with religion should be resisted by every patriot.
Foundational to the Constitution is the framers’ belief in self-evident truths; that we were all created equal, and that the Creator endowed us with certain unalienable rights. Since many of those men, or their recent ancestors, sought these shores as a haven from oppression by the Church of England, they obviously were aware of the dangers of a theocracy, and wanted no part of one. But they just as firmly wanted to establish the principle that all governments – by and for men – were subject to the laws of the Creator.
Now however, America seems determined to ignore the Lawgiver. And so are once again subject to the tyrannical whims of whichever ruler or ruling class happens to be in power at any given time.