This video is profoundly disturbing on a couple of levels. While an unglued, obviously deranged woman was busy assaulting innocent people, she was also claiming to teach children about a subject she clearly knows very little, if anything about -- the U.S. Constitution. It never ceases to amaze me, how many people can believe they know things with certainty, yet are absolutely, and often provably wrong. Take, for example, my atheist friends enamored with the phrase "separation of church and state," often citing it as their favorite part of the Constitution. The problem is that the phrase "separation of church and state" cannot be found in the U.S. Constitution, or in any of its amendments. Here's my most cynical offer -- I'll pay one thousand dollars reward to anyone who can show me where the exact words "separation of church and state" appear in the Constitution. No, I'm not being generous. I'm very confident I'll keep my money because I know where the phrase originated, verbatim; it came from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to assure the Danbury Baptists in Connecticut that freedom of religion in our new nation would never be limited to one official church. And don't try to tell me they are in there somewhere, in spirit. If you're an atheist, you don't believe in spirits, do you? The words specifically in our Constitution guarantee freedom of, and certainly not from, religion. "Separation of church and state" only meant there will never be a state-sponsored church, like the Anglican Church was in England. That meant Catholics, Baptists, … [Read more...]