National Prayer Day

National Day of Prayer(May 6) 

was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge on the Tax Day of April 15, 201o.

A Christian nation

Is a theological impossibility--unless you are an ambitious abbot with audacious, adamantine allure and dreams of greatness in the future--, and faith coerced is no faith at all, only tyranny. The Founding Fathers understood this. Why can't the GOP? 

The idea of the separation of Church and State began, in fact, with Jesus. Once, when the crowds were with him and wanted to make him a king, he withdrew and hid.  Before Pilate, Jesus was explicit: "My kingdom is not of this world," he said.

Later, Paul (Saul in his unconverted days) argues that God shows no partiality among nations or peoples, meaning nations cannot ask God to take sides.

But, of course, an ignoramus like Palin would not know nor buy into Paul's argument. The spectacle of an idiot, albeit attractive, like Palin commands a following of adoring fans, and a bunch of  preachers mouthing off platitudes and nonsense on Sundays while always including pleas for monetary donations is a sad commentary on the spiritual sophistication in America, making it an attractive, fertile ground for religious hucksters and hustlers from all corners of the world. They come here to prey on the those who want to believe or rather to suspend the will of disbelief. We have Hara Krisnas, the Moonies, (Unification Church), Scientology, Wiccans, assorted Hindu hustlers with omnipresent honorific prefix "Swami", and our own Vietnamese meditation "master" Thich Nhat Hanh.