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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
"Church" meant the powers of the various religions that frequently interviened in state affairs for most of Europes development. The separation meant, for example, that if the Pope decrees we should go to war, he has no power in the US government. religious leaders cannot define our laws.
This principle has been bastardized to mean that religious beliefs, morals or philosophies have no place in our government. Our entire political foundation was based on religious belief - the constitution, declaration of independce all reference a "god". The beauty is you're free to believe what you want. I am not religious but do not get offended by other religions influence on this country. In fact this bastardization is leading to people losing their freedom as religion gets demonized, mostly by liberals.
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RIJIMMY is correct. "Seperation of church and state" was meant to make it clear that we are not a theocracy, that there is no government-sponsored, official religion. "Seperation of church and state" was not meant to express the idea that we should go out of our way to be atheistic. The founding fathers made it very clear that our founding principles are rooted in Judeo-Christian beliefs. They did not try to hide that.