Welcome to Douglas Wilson's Blog and May Blog, presented by Canon Press.

Tenured historians of the Golden Calf, Monday, November 7, 2022.

Introduction.

If a man were to undertake a proof that triangles had three sides, and he was making heavy

weather and getting his point across, there would be several possibilities that we would

need to consider.

One would be that he was simply a terrible teacher, another possibility would be that

they were powerful interests conspiring against him, funded in a big way by George Soros.

Let's go with that one.

With those basic alternatives in mind, and taking the appropriate lesson from them, let

us review now some of the basic issues that have far too long bumphozled the American

public when it comes to the foundational questions surrounding church and state.

It shouldn't be hard, but somehow it is hard anyway, and perhaps it has been the excessive

sensitivity and nuance that I have historically been wanting to use.

So let's go over these issues in November, shall we?

And let us deal with the logic of the thing first and the American history of it after

that.

When the magic phrase, church and state is involved, the thinking stops immediately.

When we say that we are in favor of a separation of church and state, what are we saying exactly?

What do we mean by it?

If we were to carefully toss out Jefferson's phrase, wall of separation, as though we knew

what we were saying, and someone were to press us on where that wall was located precisely,

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