Proclamation of Politics

Turning from proclamation to politics, however, requires much duplicitous testimony. In public, politically powerful preachers will declare that the nation must acknowledge allegiance to God and will contend that the public square would be naked without meaningful references to Deity. In court, slick lawyers will argue that the oath in the pledge does not establish a religion because the words “under God” have “no significant religious content."

How fundamentalist Christians can so callously profane the name of their Lord–making it legally meaningless and publicly bearing false witness about it–reveals something about the depth of either their understanding or their spirituality, especially when they are leading a simultaneous crusade to post the Decalogue in public places. That, however, is another story.

-- from "Fundamentalism's Devious Debates for Established Religion" By Bruce Prescott

[via The Baptist Studies Bulletin]