re: #245 HappyWarrior

I just imagine if Cain had said the crap he’s said about Muslims about Catholics or Jews. Those are two groups that got scapegoated largely too. It also amuses me that fundamentalist Christians like Cain and others bemoan the idea of separation of church and state when many of their religious ancestors came to country to get away from societies where church and state were linked. Britain had Anglicanism as its state religion and Presbyterians and Baptists and Methodists were heavily persecuted under that and in Germany the same went with non Lutherans or Catholics. Jefferson’s famous letter regarding church and state was after all directed at a Baptist church. If I were a fundamentalist Christian, I’d embrace the separation of church and state rather than bemoan its existence.

Well, Cain needs to be careful with that kind of crap, since the National Baptist Convention USA, where he has his ordination, is seen by some of those ignorant confederates he’s trying to please as some black radical separatist tradition. I think this is why he’s trying to disavow any connection to civil rights.

But yeah, separation is supposed to protect religion from the state. The ones bemoaning it have no way to manage a theocracy if they tried, not in this country where there’s every religion under the sun. But then, that’s WHY there’s the separation in the first place.