In his letter published Oct. 3, Tim Crusenberry is a good one to complain about the persecution of Christians by others. Perhaps Christians are now being justly done unto as they have for centuries done unto others, blatantly violating the Golden Rule, one of the many pagan concepts adopted by Christianity. The Ten Commandments, though not called such, were lifted from the far earlier Code of Hammurabi, which, in turn, is derived from the far earlier oldest known legal code, that of the ancient Sumerians, who seemingly overnight and from out of nowhere gave us many of civilization’s first, just maybe with the help of E.T. Incidentally, the Egyptians have no record of Moses. Since his death is recorded in the last of the first five books of the Old Testament, Moses could not have written them, contrary to what many church teach us.
Crusenberry wrote, “The Constitution of the United States establishes we have freedom ‘of’ religion, not freedom ‘from’ religion.” Wrong! I quote from the Supreme Court’s decision Everson v. Board of Education from 1947, “The ‘establishment of religion’ clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or force him to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion. No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.”
Christianity was kept out of our Constitution because, as noted in Engle v. Vitale (1962), “It was in large part of get completely away from this sort of systematic religious persecution that the Founders brought into being our Nation, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights with its prohibition against any governmental establishment of religion.
James L. Cannon
Bristol, Tenn.
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