The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause must compete with another famous definition of the American government’s proper relationship with the church: Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists, wherein he wrote of a “wall of separation between church and state” (Dreisbach).
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Welcome to my blog! I’m Colson Potter, author with one book published at time of posting and more coming. This blog covers those topics I believe I can speak valuably upon: writing, politics, theology, philosophy, and the intersections of the four, to the glory of God.
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What’s What on Here
The Blog Here you can find all the weekly articles. Theology Here you can find articles focused on theology. Writing Here you can find articles focused on the art and theory of writing. Politics Here you can find articles focused
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Establishment: Endorsement or Institution?
The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause must compete with another famous definition of the American government’s proper relationship with the church: Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists, wherein he wrote of a “wall of separation between church and state” (Dreisbach).
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Marco Rubio’s Deception at Munich
The name ‘Marco Rubio’ has been bruited about as a presidential possibility for years now, longer than I’ve been cognizant of politics in a meaningful sense (given I only started paying attention late 2015). Of late, however, he’s been the
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Rupert Lowe: A Statesman and an Example
Perhaps it is strange that I, a Tennessean and an American, should write my first candidate-specific political article on a British politician like Rupert Lowe. At any rate, I’ve been following British politics for a while now, seeing their tailspin
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Reviewing ‘Deliberate Dumbing Down of America’ – Part Four
If nothing else, this book helps explain why reactions (and thus emotions) seem so much the substance of American national discourse at the moment, how people are so extraordinarily incapable (to appearance) of inhabiting and considering others’ viewpoints. They have,
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Reviewing ‘Deliberate Dumbing Down of America’ – Part Three
Part I covered the center point of Iserbyt’s book (Skinnerian, Behaviorist education- education which is actually intended to program people, producing reactions rather than inculcating decision-making). Part II covered several of the subsidiary points of the work,1 including US entanglement