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Leisure reading for me a while back consisted of “The Federalist Papers,” and I’m grateful it was so. It is amazing how much truth can be gleaned when one goes to the source, rather than relying on a mouthpiece that purports to educate you on its version of what the source says. Case in point: a U.S. Government class in high school told me that our Founding Fathers had distaste for all religion, thus, the addition of the First Amendment. However, writings from the Founding Fathers themselves indicate that they were men of faith and only wanted church and state separated because they did not want any one religion seizing the state to make all citizens involuntary converts. They never indicated that religion, and the very mention of God, be left out of the state all together.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and...
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