Scalia—Separation of Church and State Facilitated Hitler's Holocaust

thanks to Jim Walker's photo compilation, Thom Hartmann for his article at CommonDreams.org, and to Arthur K. Livingstone

Unfurl the battle flags. Sing the national anthem. Unite the people behind the leader, no matter how evil and corrupt he may be. Sound familiar in both German and English? The Nazi Party was seen as credible and patriotic. The more it blamed foreign and domestic Communists as terrorists, painted all liberals and democratic people as enemies of Germany, and threatened to crush its enemies with force, the more deliriously "patriotic" the public became.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia suggests that separation of church and state facilitated the Holocaust.

Scalia has an extraordinary way of not letting facts confound his arguments, but this time he's gone completely over the top by suggesting that a separation of church and state facilitated the Holocaust.

"I suggest that our jurisprudence should comport with our actions," Scalia told an audience [Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004] attending an interfaith conference on religious freedom at Manhattan's Shearith Israel synagogue

[Do you think Justice Scalia could brush up on his German history?]

An "originalist," Scalia believes in following the Constitution as written by the Founding Fathers, rather than interpreting it to reflect the changing times.

"Our Constitution does not morph," he said Monday, deadpanning, "As I've often said, I am an originalist, I am a textualist, but I am not a nut."

How about Scalia actually reading our country's founding documents? Our Constitution never once mentions "God." As a matter of fact, our forefathers realized how important it was to keep religion out of government by making it the very first order of business in the Bill of Rights, Article I, Amendment I:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

READ:
United States Constitution, Bill of Rights and the Amendments
Declaration of Independence

Related web pages worthy of note:

The Inaccuracy of Comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler

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