Secular Democracy?

The separation of church and state concept was added as a bill initially introduced in Virginia by Thomas Jefferson and later added to the Bill of Rights.

Why? Why did Jefferson do this?

The founding of America came right on the heels of the Protestant Reformation. This reformation was the fall of the Catholic church and the development of many denominations of Christian groups (people disagreed on the Catholic church as a power, but couldn’t agree on a way forward, thus they split into denominations).

Jefferson, ever concerned about the overreach of power as they had experienced under British rule, knew all too well how the union of religion and government led to tyranny and corruption.

So long as the government was secular and democratic, and the people were free to practice their own faiths, the government could never become too powerful. This was unheard of in any time before history. Even Rome deified their politicians.

Jefferson, while fallible for his slave-owning, sexist ways, was onto something massive, and dare I say, sacred, when he constructed our earliest documents.

This week, the administration’s hacking of the US Treasury for citizen payment info could easily cause one to suspect if they hacked the voting booths as well. With the newly founded Anti-Christian Task Force and Faith Office, we now suspect this is no longer a secular government.

I hope the ghosts of Jefferson and Madison haunt these men for making a mockery of their sacred work. Secular democracy is the entire spine of this country. To break it, is to leave us paralyzed in the face of tyranny.

Lord, send us your angels and our ancestors.

We’re gonna need all the help we can get.