“You could be forgiven for inferring from all this ‘education’ that, back in the good old days at least, government scrupulously kept religion at arms length.”

But that would be a truly deluded secularist fantasy. In reality, throughout the late 1700s – the era of the Revolutionary War and the subsequent adoption of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment – Christianity permeated America from top to bottom.

What a difference 200 years can make. Today, for every big case that makes the evening news – like the banishment of the 10 Commandments from the Alabama courthouse, or the judicial ban on the ‘Under God’ phrase from the Pledge of Allegiance – there are countless other smaller cases, every bit as mind-boggling.”