RE: Where is it Written......

Bridgeton MO

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It doesn't take a genius to know that the only way for Congress to keep from passing laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise is.........you guessed it, to SEPARATE CHURCH AND STATE!!!!!!!! It makes absolutely no difference what personal beliefs our founding fathers had, THEY DID NOT WANT THIS TO BE A CHRISTIAN NATION! I don't know what the point of your post was (unless to show you can't grasp the simple concept of separation of church and state) but it sounds like you want to live in a theocracy which you are welcome to do, just move to Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, etc.. See how you like it. READ THE CONSTITUTION! READ THE FIRST AMENDMENT! Had the founding fathers wanted this to be a Christian Nation, THEY WOULD HAVE SAID SO! BTW, were their "strong moral and spiritual convictions" the same ones that thought slavery was okay? Where were the rights of women? What about driving native Americans off their lands and west across the Mississippi? Using Christianity to excuse immoral behavior is despicable, prisons are FULL of Christians. Christian is NOT synonymous with moral. Some Christians are, some aren't just as with every other religious sect as well as atheism and agnosticism. You live in a revisionist-history dream world, made up in your indoctrinated/cultist mind. I can find quotes, too. I have internet access. "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." --John Adams "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" --Thomas Jefferson "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God." --Thomas Jefferson "We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions...shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power...we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society." --John Adams "We hold it for a fundamental and inalienable truth that religion and the manner of discharging it can be directed only by reason and conviction not by force and violence. The religion, then, of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate." --James Monroe "Spiritual freedom is the root of political liberty...As the union between spiritual freedom and political liberty seems nearly inseparable, it is our duty to defend both." --Thomas Paine "Adam, if ever there were such a man, was created a Deist; but in the mean time let every man follow, as he has a right to do, the religion and the worship he prefers." --Thomas Paine "It is true, we are not disposed to differ much, at present, about religion; but when we are making a constitution, it is to be hoped, for ages and millions yet unborn, why not establish the free exercise of religion as a part of the national compact." --Richard Henry Lee "I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect." --James Madison