I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.
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The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.
Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.
Churches should not be directly involved in politics.
The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.
I don't know how you talk about the founding of America, and what became of the United States, without talking about religious doctrine.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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