American Theocracy
A Response to Jeff Hille’s Recent Article and Commentary
Yesterday, I read an article written by Jeff Hilles entitled Non-Theistic Satanists in Our Elementary Schools about an after school elective program being offered in Ohio. While I agree with Jeff that the offering is more or less a “Take that!” kind of deal in response to Christian programs being offered and a bit childish, I commented that this was a great example for why religion should not be part of public schools. While Jeff was not blatantly disrespectful, which I appreciate, his response to my comment had several points with which I disagree that I would like to address here. I wish to stress that this is not an attack in any way against Jeff or his Biblical Christian Worldview beliefs or religion, but rather a response to some points he made. At the end of the day, we can respectfully agree to disagree.
Jeff stated that the country has “strong roots in a Biblical Christian worldview,” I believe in defense of offering Christian programs in school as opposed to other religious offerings. While I agree that the country was largely founded for the purpose of religious freedom, as many came here to escape religious persecution, the founding fathers were largely Deists, not Christians who supported the biblical worldview, and one of their first priorities was to establish the separation of…
