Theocracy

via Crooks and Liars...

Looks like Emperor Palpatine is at it again:

Affirming the rich spiritual and religious history of our Nation's founding and subsequent history and expressing support for designation of the first week in May as `American Religious History Week' for the appreciation of and education on America's history of religious faith.

Whereas religious faith was not only important in official American life during the periods of discovery, exploration, colonization, and growth but has also been acknowledged and incorporated into all 3 branches of American Federal government from their very beginning;

Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed this self-evident fact in a unanimous ruling declaring `This is a religious people ... From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation';

Whereas political scientists have documented that the most frequently-cited source in the political period known as The Founding Era was the Bible;

[Whereas most citizens of this Republic recognize that religion belongs in the house of worship, and in the heart, and has no place in the houses of government, vis a vis, 'Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's';

And Whereas most citizens of this Republic recognize that the sponsers of this bill are awful jackasses...]

Fine. Let's have a National Reason Week, where we see that this country is the result of the Enlightment :

"The language of natural law, of inherent freedoms, of self-determination which seeped so deeply into the American grain was the language of the Enlightenment, though often coated with a light glaze of traditional religion, what has been called our "civil religion."

This is one reason that Americans should study the Enlightenment. It is in their bones. It has defined part of what they have dreamed of, what they aim to become."