Mixing Bible, laws and government

I am responding to recent letters stating the Bible should not be used to make law.

Separation of church and state cannot be found in the Constitution. There is no law stating that references to God and religion must be eradicated from our laws and government.

Read the Constitution, investigate the history upon which our nation was founded and don't allow yourself to be brainwashed to believe lies that, through repeated hearing, appear to be true.

Purely Communist governments and nations are completely devoid of God and religion. Well over 100 million citizens died in the last century at the hands of their own Communist governments. How far down that path dare we go?

For those who will not allow the Bible to serve as a source for forming laws, what source of nonreligious moral and ethical wisdom exists that not only trumps, but completely disqualifies, the wisdom of the Bible, which has withstood several thousand years of scrutiny? The Bible is by far the world's best-selling book. If so many are turning to the Bible for guidance and answers, how could we as a nation completely disqualify it from any usefulness or validity?

For those who say we cannot pick and choose from the Bible, when (or if) you have written a research paper, did you quote in entirety your sources, or did you pick and choose that portion of the source relevant to your topic?

Levitical laws are a never-ending source for sneering and mockery, even by presidential candidates. Do the Levitical laws disqualify all other ethical wisdom of the Bible, including all Ten Commandments?

Is adultery, which occurs between consenting adults, a civil liberty that should be protected by removing all government sanctions against it because the Bible forbids it?

If you disagree, aren't you picking and choosing?

Eric Carver

Palatine