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I told you I should’ve had
better sense than to get into a religious debate in the Rappahannock News (Feb. 5 edition). By trying to introduce some lighthearted but hard-earned perspective into the ongoing discussion about church and state, I became the target of a very strange muddled diatribe by Carl Eborn. Trying to sort out his ever-shifting point of view is a bit like trying to straighten out a plate of cold spaghetti.
Apparently Mr. Eborn thinks that his own beliefs are absolute and ultimate truth.
My belief is that religious belief is driven by faith, and that for those of us who believe, “Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Mr. Eborn also believes that we are a theocracy, a “Christian Nation.” My belief is that we are a secular nation, whose mostly Christian founders feared the control of the church over government and the control of government over the church. Christ’s admonition “Therefore, render unto God that which is God’s and unt*b Caesar that which is Caesar's,” is the best explication of the separation of church and state
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