Separation Of Church & State

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[JWonn]

"I do not trust men who know so well what god wants, as i notice it always happens to coincide with their own will"

-Susan B Anthony

[rkzenrage]

@JWonn I agree, because if you know what your imaginary friend is thinking you have REALLY gone over the deep-end.

[AiruhnG]

@mikepiazza One important US document that not many people are aware of is the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary. Article XI of this treaty which was started in the administration of George Washington and which was ratified in the administration of John Adams reads, "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion. Most founding fathers were Deist not Christians.

[AiruhnG]

@mikepiazza Separation of church and state was accomplished by judicial fiat in 1947. In 1947 the Supreme Court interpreted the first amendment and ruled that the framers of the Constitution meant that there should be a separation of church and state. So the words are not in the constitution specifically but it is law.

[JackJ1957]

@rkzenrage While the Founders themselves openly described America as a Christian nation, they did include a constitutional prohibition against a federal establishment; religion was a matter left solely to the individual States. Therefore, if the article is read as a declaration that the federal government of the United States was not in any sense founded on the Christian religion, such a statement is not a repudiation of the fact that America was considered by them a Christian nation. CONTEXT!

[JackJ1957]

@rkzenrage While the Founders themselves openly described America as a Christian nation, they did include a constitutional prohibition against a federal establishment; religion was a matter left solely to the individual States. Therefore, if the article is read as a declaration that the federal government of the United States was not in any sense founded on the Christian religion, such a statement is not a repudiation of the fact that America was considered by them a Christian nation. CONTEXT!

[rkzenrage]

@ciarom23 Some pretty fancy time-travel-mind-reading there... wow!

[rkzenrage]

@lemmywhinks That has no bearing on it's incorporation status.

[rkzenrage]

@Habakkuksaid Funny, the more we have done it the lower crime, drug use and violence becomes in our nation and the nations with the lowest levels of those horrible things are the least religous... hmmm, probably just a coincidence.

[rkzenrage]

@Ringo84 Exactly, George Washington attended church all the time, however he NEVER took communion NOR stated he believed.