The Mixing of Religion and Politics!

 

American politicians, today, are saturating their rhetoric with religious references for the purpose of bolstering a particular political point of view.  Haven’t we prided ourselves as a country of insisting on a strong separation between church and state?  Render unto Caesar and all that stuff?  Almost every political conversation in this presidential election year seems to evoke religion in some way.  Is this the system our forefathers conceived of?  Weren’t they getting away from religious dictates from abroad when American was founded?  Where did we go astray?  Or did we?  Take a look at my new column now posted and see what you think.  You can read it now by Clicking Here, or by going to the Red Flashing Box above.