Freedom from Religion

A WALL OF SEPARATION

"And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there." Numbers 21:33

"A wall of separation" is an oft repeated phrase, probably far more in usage than "separation doctrine", but, like most, in high school and college elect to avoid science electives, not everyone attends law school and is familiar completely with legal terms of art, and, as these words are legal arguments, it is often said that only a fool represents himself in court. So, let a hint to the wise be sufficient.

According to Sun Tsu, "The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources." According to Sun Tsu, "what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge." According to Sun Tsu, "foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience," and "[k]nowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men."

And at least, according to Sun Tsu military science, it is for this reason that "the use of spies, of whom there are five classes: (1) Local spies; (2) inward spies; (3) converted spies; (4) doomed spies; (5) surviving spies" and "[w]hen these five kinds of spy are all at work, none can discover the secret system."

Sun Tsu, not FM 22-Webb, describes this as "divine manipulation of the threads", and identifies this magic as "the sovereign's most precious faculty." But feel free to deny the science, mindful that, according to WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, we have underestimated this virus at our own peril, according to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, this virus isn't stupid, and according to Dr. Tony Fauci, this virus has fooled us before, and you follow the science, right?