Antonin Scalia goes completely over the edge of sanity at nation's oldest synagogue

[docwebster]

Antonin Scalia, the man most likely to be our next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, turned history on its head recently when he attended an Orthodox synagogue in New York and claimed that the Founders intended for their Christianity to play a part in government. Scalia then went so far as to suggest that the reason Hitler was able to initiate the Holocaust was because of German separation of church and state.

"Did it turn out that," Scalia asked rhetorically, "by reason of the separation of church and state, the Jews were safer in Europe than they were in the United States of America?" He then answered himself, saying, "I don't think so."

Scalia has an extraordinary way of not letting facts confound his arguments, but this time he's gone completely over the top by suggesting that a separation of church and state facilitated the Holocaust.

(cut/pasted from the above article)

Comments

[lazysun.livejournal.com]

you know what's really funny?

these people that Scalia is accusing of having Christian beliefs? Like, oh, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and his kid, John Q.), John Hancock, Thomas Paine, Ethan Allen, James Madison, Alaexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette? You know, all those really key figures in the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and stuff...

They were deists. They didn't fucking believe in Jesus Christ as Messiah.

(So were an awful lot of subsequent Presidents, is this site is to be believed...)

People are fuckheads. Scalia should be burned at the stake or something, just for being stupid.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Lots of modern fundamentalists have no idea what Deism was/is.