Separation of Church and State

WK was having a bit of fun here. I don't know if he was trying to see if any Americans would rise to the bait or didn't realise the joke wouldn't necessarily travel across the Atlantic.For historical reasons (i.e. it makes no sense but it's the way it is) in Britain the term "public school" actually refers to a private school - usually also a boarding school - and they are often regarded as being only for the rich upper classes.Hence the "Be off with you or I'll have my man thrash you and set the hounds on you" - a stereotypical representation of the sort of thing an upper class twit might say to you if you suggested abolishing the fee-paying public schools his family have been packing their children off to for centuries."my man" tells you he has servants and "the hounds" means he is probably a landowner who keeps a pack of hounds for hunting foxes with.Oh and giving thrashings to the peasants was a common practice until recently!I promise you his post was funny over here

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I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then

In what way are

• Thou shalt have no other gods before me
• Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
• Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain
• Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

doing anything but representing one particular God and religion? This claim is somewhat disingenuous as the Abrahmaic religions (which are the only ones you can claim they represent) are so closely related.

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