Who knew? Today's blog from Dr. R. Albert Mohler reminds us, as conservative Christians, how the outrage and hostility toward Christianity in the secular world came about. I am speaking about the strict line between church and state- that which wouldn't have tolerated a Ten Commandments monument in a public courthouse. Dr. Mohler looks at the root of the problem, that the doctrine of strict separation between church and state has now become so embedded in the nation's courts. According to a book by Constititional Scholar Philip Hamburger, Separation of Church And State, published by Harvard University Press, movement in the 1940s by conservative Christians to block the growth and possible alignment of other denominations in and with the government was the beginning of the severe push to widen the gulf of church and state. As Porkypine in the esteemable Pogo comic strip said in 1954, "There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us."

Changing direction, as I am so wont to do when my faculties are overloaded, a reminder that my high school graduation year is represented by the Hits of Yesterday tomorrow, September 3rd from midnight EDT (7 pm GMT) for 24 hours. 1973, the year of Roberta Flack, Jim Croce, The Carpenters, Doobie Brothers, Paul Simon and the arena anthem of 1973, Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein." You'll hear the one-hit wonders of the day, such as King Harvest's "Dancing In The Moonlight" and artists whose careers took off from 1973, like Billy Joel, when the "Piano Man" sounded from every transistor radio that summer.

À la prochaine (until next time),

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