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I could go on and on with things that really are more or less secular in nature, and God gladly gives over to the administration of Caesar and his politicians.

 

Today I want to look at a deeper issue.  In fact, I want to look at the foundation issue.  Did our Founding Fathers, who gave us the foundation, consider religion to be distinct from American government and public learning?  To say it

another way, did the Founding Fathers consider public matters to be a purely secular thing, building a great wall to keep Christianity out of government and the public school?

 

Does it matter to God how these questions are answered?  Would God prefer to keep the Bible out of the public square and classroom?  Are there consequences to a right or wrong answer to these questions?

 

...His country was in disorder.  It was struggling to find a beginning, a foundation for public life, after its hard fought war for independence.  James Madison, along with Thomas Jefferson and others, began to form documents that would lead to a

constitution for this new nation.

 

James Madison was one of the Founding Fathers for the United States of America, and its fourth president.  He has been referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.”  He wrote 29 of the 85 numbers to “The Federalist Papers” and was the architect who fashioned the Executive Branch within our constitution.

 

James Madison, Father of the Constitution and intimate friend of Thomas Jefferson, wrote in his famous article, Memorial and Remonstration: “Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe...”

 

Now this is a big statement by a founder of our nation and the “father” of its constitution.  He is saying, in effect, that for America, the civil arena–the public square–is not for people who subject themselves first to “Caesar,” but to citizens who subject themselves to God.  James Madison would disagree with the Supreme Court today– a court that wants to say that the public square and the public classroom are secular places where the will and meaning of God should have no say at all.

 

Does it matter what Madison thinks?  A book was written some years back that looked statistically at what was happening to our children since the Supreme Court ruled against prayer in the classroom– a ruling that took place in 1963.  Now, I know that there are dangers that concern us about the theology of those leading the prayers, etc., in a public setting, but that being noted, this book demonstrates a

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