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Originally Posted by Dbones
There is no separation clause anywhere. There is only the Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;. Are you aware that the founders held church sermons in the capitol building?
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I admit to not being a Constitution scholar. My understanding is that the US, in not making a “law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” is setting the practice of religion aside from the government. The idea of the separation of church from state is taught in US government classes. And the idea that there was no state religion to be established in the US, was pretty radical for the time.
I also know the George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were not believers in a fundamentalist way. Washington refused to take communion in the Episcopalian Church he attended with his wife. Jefferson had his own ideas about which parts of the gospels were likely to be true. If anything they, and possibly other men of the Enlightenment were likely Deists.
We have the right to worship as we see fit, or not to worship at all. In this we are a free country. Our government should not endorse or support our practice, nor should it interfere.
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