Tenets of Constitution

We live in a post-Christian American culture where church consists of children who write and draw devil faces on the church bulletin while the sermon is taking place, or on their cell phones and giggle back and forth with the parents sitting next to them. You wonder where folks get their wardrobe training as you look at thighs and underwear instead of legs and knees, and tight-fitting jeans you see in a bar.

You sit in Sunday School classes that are taught from books of who’s who and not from the Bible with little or no serious conversation. The message is lost in the talk around town or some other gossip. Disrespect for the speaker, with getting up and leaving at inopportune times and bringing coffee and snacks into the sanctuary, is prevalent everywhere.

But the serious stuff of allowing a few in our society to dictate the terms of biblical truths and, worse, to live by them is incomprehensible. I believe our laws came out of the Bible. Our schools first taught from the New England primer which taught writing and reading from the Bible. Many of our founding fathers were ministers as well as the occupations they had. The lie of separation of church and state is not in our Constitution.

Church is very much a part of our culture. If a religion does not accept the tenets of our Constitution, it needs to go back where it came from. We are not going to change the Constitution to accommodate anyone. It is time our government understands this and the minority who don’t like it can move on with the majority. We need to unify and quit living in past things where none of us has lived. If then we live in a post-Christian America, we won’t live in America much longer. HARRY HOHENSTEIN

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