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Originally posted by The STE
I think your question, Bloody, is bass ackwards. One should be asking, if there's a supposed seperation between church and state, why does the gov. recognize Christian or Jewish marriages at all? Pagan, Wiccan, and the rest are the ones who've got it right.
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Sam, it says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".
That is basically saying there can be no national religion.
While it is along the right lines, it doesn't call for a complete seperation of church and state. What I am asking is where did this term 'Seperation of church and state' come from? Why is that term tossed around like it's in the Constitution and we are all owed it?
Another point of interest, those guys that wrote the Bill of Rights, were primarily Christian. They followed the Ten Commandments, they printed our money with 'In God we trust' and the pledge of allegiance was made with 'One nation under God.' It is safe to say this country was founded on Christian principles. I'd also wager to guess that all of this wasn't exactly what they had in mind when they wrote that, and if they knew where it would eventually end up, they probably would have been a bit more specific.