What Is the "Separation of Church & State"?

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Alright, let's do this guys. Let's talk about the separation of church and state, shall we?

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Now this just might be the first time a nighttime talk show speaks about the separation of church and state in a way that is consistent with what it means historically, logically, and biblically.

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Except for the time that Paul Washer had his own late -night talk show called Laugh with Paul. Show never actually aired because he didn't laugh once.

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We love you, Paul Washer. He's actually amazing. Now this subject is particularly important at a time like this because we are living currently in a culture that celebrates what

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I like to call pop confusion. And no, pop confusion does not mean pop stars that look alike.

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Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus looking freakishly alike is just called creepy. Isn't that weird?

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Now our nation is ruining meaningful distinctions and our country loves it. Men can be ladies.

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Ladies can be men. Dudes can marry dudes. Porn can be considered good drama. The government is in the business of health care.

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Socialism is called good. Now, I mean this country is so messed up. We're calling someone's grandpa a lady.

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Distinctions are good and they are very important. For instance, it's good to know the difference between a pool noodle and a hammer.

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One is for hitting things in order to build something up and the other is for hitting small and defenseless children.

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Both are useful, but it's important to pick the right tool for the job. Or the distinction between a dog and a cat.

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One will show you affection and be a loyal friend for life. The other is a cat.

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Choose wisely, friends. Now, we've obliterated distinctions in our day. We tell children that people don't need a mommy and a daddy and that saying that there are distinctions between moms and dads is sexist, bigoted, and wrong.

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Basically, our society has become like the movie Three Men and a Baby. Except our society isn't funny and these snowflakes don't even know how to be manly.

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Listen, snowflakes, you can grow a mustache as much as you'd like, but you'll never be Tom Selleck.

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Now, it gets worse. Public schools disciple young children and catechize them with books like Heather Has Two Mommies.

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Which, if you didn't know, it is actually a real book and, by the way, poorly done. I mean, the plot is even in the title.

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Even the movie John Dies at the End had more twists than that book. Now, men can do what women can do and women can do what men can do.

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Really? Tell that to all the loving and sacrificial moms sore from pumping milk for their babies.

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Now, I'm sure they would jump at the opportunity to hook dad up to be milked for a bit. Now, it wouldn't work and, even if it did, don't drink that.

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Don't do that. We were sold the idea that we don't need separate public bathrooms for men and women.

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Now, every woman knows this is a terrible idea. Not just because of the evil perverts who are capitalizing on the situation, but because women already have to tell you to put the toilet seat down at home.

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They don't want to remind you at Target, too. However, there is a place where the leftists, cultural

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Marxists, and social justice warriors agree to put a hard, fast, and absolute distinction.

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And here it is. The separation of church and state. Here, we find one of the seemingly few things that these dismantlers of culture hold as sacred.

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It's part of their Ten Commandments. Just imagine, if you will, their commandments being held by a vegan

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Charlton Heston. The first being, Thou shall not have any absolutes.

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The second being, Thou shall absolutely not let God in government. And the third, of course, being,

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Thou shall absolutely shall be absolute about having absolutely absolutes absolutely.

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There's a reason why the Founding Fathers set this Republic up in a way that said that we shall not make state and church.

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We shall not establish a religion. Separation of church and state. Now, I have a very straightforward question.

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Good. Call, because I'm curious about your choice for vice president.

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Do you believe in the separation of church and state? Sure. Now, listening to a modern liberal argue for a separation of church and state can leave anyone familiar with the actual history of this doctrine completely dumbfounded.

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It's like trying to make sense of this kid. Have you ever had a dreams that that you um you had you you what you could you do you what you want you you could do so you

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You do you could you you want you want him to do you so much you could do anything?

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Now, first of all, Christians do believe in a separation of church and state. As a matter of fact, we invented it.

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Now that's right. If we were a teen soap, we broke up with the state first. Then the state started spreading rumors like the church broke up with me.

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So why does she have to talk about me all the time? The reality is the separation of church and state means something way different than what anarchists would have you believe today.

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The Bible always taught, always, as a part of God's law that there is to be a distinction between the realm of the civil magistrate and the realm of the church.

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In history, particularly time during the time of the Reformation, Christians fought for the biblical idea of a free church and a free state.

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Now our founding fathers were the beneficiaries of these Christian ideas only when they employed them they never ever ever meant the perverse thing that these leftists and cultural anarchists mean today, which is separation of God and state.

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Now they meant what the Bible meant. These are two distinct realms with differing functions.

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The state is to execute justice, punish evil, and protect and reward the righteous, while the church functions as the realm of worship, evangelism, proclamation of God's truth and justice, and to care for the broken.

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Both institutions were distinct, but both were to be ruled, here it is, by God's law.

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So Christians created the distinction in our culture, but those who want to see the world burn redefined it.

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So A, you're welcome leftists, and B, how dare you? How dare you?

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Next, from the standpoint of the United States, the phrase the separation of church and state doesn't even appear in our

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Constitution. Here's what it does say. It says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, which in its historical context meant what the

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Christians who influenced it said it meant. There are two distinct realms.

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They didn't want a situation that they had in England, wherein the state had blended with the church, thus destroying the distinction in those realms and creating a church ran by the state.

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That is against God's law, my friend. And as a matter of historical fact, the popular and mangled phrase, the separation of church and state, actually appeared in a letter from Thomas Jefferson on January 1st, 1802.

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He wrote this letter to the Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut. These Baptists were concerned about the danger of a state -run denomination or church, and they were also concerned about not being able to influence the government properly as the

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Baptists. So Jefferson wrote back to them encouraging them not to worry about an official state -operated church because, here it is, there is a separation of church and state.

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Jefferson wasn't undoing the biblical and historic model. He was actually upholding it.

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He didn't mean that there's to be a separation of God and state, or of morality and state like the leftists and other moral anarchists want today.

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I mean, just think about this, guys. Think about how far we've actually gone. We live in a time where Christians have bought into the fiction that the church has no responsibility to be a prophetic voice to the state, and that magistrates in the civil realm are under no real obligation to obey

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God. Having consistent Christians in the civil realm is about as foreign and out of place as Hillary Clinton on this interview with the breakfast club.

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What's something that you always carry with you? Hot sauce. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

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Really? Are you getting information right now? Hot sauce in my bag swag?

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Hot sauce. Really? Yes. Now listen, I just want you to know people are going to see this and say, okay, she's pandering to black people.

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Okay, is it working? Is it working? Wow, first of all.

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Now, who told her that it was okay to say hot sauce? Listen, Hillary, if at any time you can put it in there, mention a stereotypical food item.

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They'll love it. Now, let's face it, America. We're a far cry from the first Supreme Court Justice John Jay.

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John Jay was not only involved in the founding of our nation and part of the first SCOTUS, but he was vice president and then president of the

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American Bible Society. Founding father John Jay was appointed by George Washington as the first chief justice of the

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Supreme Court, a co -author of the Federalist Papers with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Governor of New York, President of the

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Continental Congress. John Jay's contributions to the founding of the United States is significant.

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But did you know, under his leadership as president of the American Bible Society, he extended the influence of the

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Bible into Latin American and guided the organization as they increased their capability to produce more than 600 ,000

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Bibles per year. In a letter to his eldest son, John Jay wrote, The Bible is the best of all books.

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Continue, therefore, to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts. Engage with the

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Bible in its influence over the centuries. Brought to you by Museum of the

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Bible. John Jay was a consistent

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Christian involved in civil government. America's case law system was ordered directly after the law of God given by Moses.

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So another point for Christianity and government, and a big fat secularist can't even create a culture because their worldview can't make sense of anything award for the secularists.

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Now we would, we would give you a trophy for your participation secularists, but we're not you.

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Now John Jay was so committed to God's law as a magistrate that he enacted laws that were consistent with God's law in the

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Bible. Here's what he actually said about God's law, quote, It appears to me that the gospel not only recognizes the whole moral law and extends and perfects our knowledge of it, but also enjoins on all mankind the observance of it, being ordained by a legislator of infinite wisdom and rectitude and in whom there is no variableness.

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It must be free from imperfection and therefore never has nor ever will require amendment or alteration.

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Close quote. Now as Christianity moved throughout history, we've established culture.

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We've beautified the world, preached the gospel, and established justice. Everywhere we went we proclaimed the good news of the lordship of Christ and we called people in every realm to obedience to Christ.

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Everyone everywhere is called to come under the lordship of Jesus. Now over the last generation, we've stepped away from being bold, consistent, and mighty, and the resultant fruit of this little evangelical experiment has brought us to a nation with total confusion.

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I mean, you know, there's a problem when Taylor Swift has more Twitter followers than Jesus. This is, by the way, what you ought to expect.

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It's another one of those important distinctions that are true, whether you like it or not. Mr. Destroyer of all things good.

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We either have a choice between a universe of total meaning with Christ or a universe of total meaninglessness without him.

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Your move, Christian. Next week with Jeff Durbin, the late night show with the unpopular opinion.