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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1821100" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>You are absolutely correct and good point but the writers of the Constitution went one even better.</p><p></p><p>"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."</p><p></p><p>In other words, they can't bar it nor can they impose it. Thus in effect they separated religion from its legislative arm. Many states adopted similar language in their own Constitutions and this axiom became a principle of the enlightenment thought as a result of European monarchs who used the power of the State to create a national religion of which they controlled and were the head of. That history was understood by many founding fathers for the harm it creates for both state and religion and it was a history they cared not to repeat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1821100, member: 2189"] You are absolutely correct and good point but the writers of the Constitution went one even better. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." In other words, they can't bar it nor can they impose it. Thus in effect they separated religion from its legislative arm. Many states adopted similar language in their own Constitutions and this axiom became a principle of the enlightenment thought as a result of European monarchs who used the power of the State to create a national religion of which they controlled and were the head of. That history was understood by many founding fathers for the harm it creates for both state and religion and it was a history they cared not to repeat. [/QUOTE]
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