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Direct Answer Bercot’s critique suggests human documents—even well-meant ones—carry unintended consequences, and that trying to safeguard spiritual good through legal phrasing is limited because later people can twist ambiguous words in ways the authors never imagined.

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• He says the Supreme Court is to blame for “absurd interpretations” like banning school prayer and Ten Commandments displays.
• Yet he also says the framers “made it possible” by writing the First Amendment in “short and ambiguous” terms.
• He insists many delegates “did not foresee the future effects” or “future ways” the Constitution would be interpreted.
• He acknowledges some delegates may have been “anti-religious, anti-Christian,” but says that likely wasn’t “what most… were intending.”
• He parallels this with the 14th Amendment: intended to address slavery and citizenship, but later used to apply federal religion limits to states—“a total twisting of the intent.”
• His broader theology: “It is impossible to have a Christian government,” and the two kingdoms must remain separate.