• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    Those who established that separation had lived in a world without it and knew how it negatively affected both the government and the religions. Saying it’s not needed shows a combination of ignorance of history and a desire to be the one religious group who gains power over others.

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      Yes, the founders knew of what they spoke, since The Inquisition was still ongoing in their lifetimes.

      There is no way they set up this country as a secular country by accident. Or didn’t mention Jesus once in the Constitution as some kind of “oversight”, and actually really meant to imply this was a xtian nation, even if the Treaty of Tripoli later spells it out that we are not a xtian nation…