H. Res. 847: Recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith

It passed in the House.

Now, why this bill? Aren’t there more important bills sitting around that could’ve been debated/discussed? What about overriding the veto on childrens health care? I’d think that’d be more important than this.

Also, there is a glaring error in the bill itself (emphasis mine)…

Whereas the United States, being founded as a constitutional republic in the traditions of western civilization, finds much in its history that points observers back to its roots in Christianity;

The US has only minute roots in Christianity, if that. Most of the founders were Deists, not Christians — they believed in a higher power; but rejected Christ’s divinity. Thomas Jefferson even went so far as to write his own Bible; and he informed the Danbury Baptists in his 1803 letter to them that the First Amendment was created to create “a wall of separation between church and state”. In the introduction to Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason, he stated that while he did believe “in one God, and no more”, he also rejected all the teachings of various religions and denominations. Article 10 of the Treaty of Tripoli, ratified in 1790 and printed in the major newspapers of the day, stated that the US was not founded on Christianity or any other religion. The founders believed that mixing religion and government would be disasterous.

Personally, I’d go so far as to say that the passage of this bill comes very close to Congress establishing a state religion — which goes against the First Amendment.

Why?