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Separation of church and state, pure fiction

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Channel: Tony Marano · 2009 · News & Politics

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Recently a column appeared in The Dallas Morning News written by Bill Baumbach, bemoaning a supposed violation of another supposition, the fictional concept of separation of church and state. 

The term "separation of church and state" can not be found anywhere in the United States Constitution as written at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attended by 55 delegates.  The First Amendment to the Constitution reads in part, 

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;.." 

The term "separation of church and state," was taken from a letter President Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1802.  Here is a link to the text of that letter:  

http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/danbury_1802.html
  
It should be noted Thomas Jefferson was not one of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, he was in France when the Constitution was being written.

President George Washington who was a delegate to that Convention deeply believed in God and the relationship with such belief in government, as he wrote,

"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."  

"What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ."

John Adams believed morality could not exist without religion. In a speech to the military in 1798, he claimed, "our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people."

Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1815: "religion, as well as reason, confirms the soundness of those principles on which our government has been founded and its rights asserted."  

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