The wife has posted something very similar on her blog, but I wanted to give it a crack myself.

I am going to blow your fucking mind ok? Every time someone suggests removing a bit of religious influence from our federal government, it is because they want religious practice to continue to be protected.

Blow your load yet? Let me break it down so perhaps you can understand a little better.

Lets tell a little story for a bit. Grab a blanket, some hot chocolate, and join me around the camp fire, cause this shit is gunna be awesome. Get ready catch some serious insight yall. Here it goes.

You live in the mid-west. Bible belt. For the sake of clarity, Idaho. You have beautiful significant other that you go to church every Sunday with. You also have a little boy named Tommy. Tommy is going to public school.

Every day when Tommy comes home you wonder how the school administration can call themselves an education institute when they don’t teach that God created the earth 6,000 years ago. How on earth can this be called education?

And why don’t they let the kids pray anyways? It isn’t hurting anyone is it?

This is the part that is going to blow your dome yall. What if Tommy was named Tej, and you and your wife were Muslim? I know I just melted your mind with that so I am going to give you a sec to put yourself back together.

All better? Pour your mind back into your ear? Good. I want you to do some serious imagination work now. I’m talking about “the method” type shit here. Like, I say you are Michael Keaton and you respond with “I am Batman.”

Ready? Imagine you are Tej. A little kid raised by Muslim parents going to public schools. Every day your parents taught you the wonders of the Qur’an. That submission to God is the only way to be saved. Everything your parents have taught you is awesome! Everything makes perfect sense to you.

Now how do you feel going to a public school with kids that have absolutely no idea about the wonderful stuff in your holy book? My goodness these other kids should know the stuff you know! You are soooo smart because you know stuff the other kids don’t. Smartest kid in the school!

Except not really. They all have their own book. And guess what? The school says this other book is better than yours. But wait… your parents said that all the other books are silly mumblings of old people. Your book is the real holy book. It is the only one that was actually written by God right? Everyone else must be stupid.

And what is this crap with Christmas? Are they talking about the Day of Ashura? Can’t be. Christmas sounds entirely too happy for something like Ashura. More stupid people not understanding anything ever.

Do you get what I am laying down here? What if little Tommy Christian was going to an Islamic school? What kind of madness would he bring home everyday?

Same shit, different point of view.

This is why the separation of Church and State makes sense. Keep that madness out of it. It isn’t to repress any viewpoint. It is to encourage them. It is to keep intangible beliefs out of the school so they can flourish in private, where they belong.

Keeping religious beliefs from being encouraged at school encourages everyone to teach whatever the fuck they want at home without fear of other religious groups.

This same policy can be applied to every form of public supported governance. Removal from currency, school, law, etc etc etc.