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Seperation of church and state

As some of you may have heard, chief justice moore of the alabama supreme court was asked to take down the monument of the ten commandments that he had set up in his court-house, all of that being said. How can you say "God bless america" and not acknowledge God as the basis of all law by displaying the ten commandments?

I'm not even going to go off on all thats wrong with the legal arguement of it, otherwise I'll be here for hours and it'll all go back to whether you choose to believe in God or not.

BUT, in the particular case being argued, the prosecution says "We must abide by 'the seperation of church and state' ".. etc etc..

But the real meaning behind the seperation of church and state is plain, It isnt "The seperation of religion and state" or "the seperation of God and state" its "The seperation of CHURCH and state"...

In fact, heres the actual text that jefferson wrote: I contemplate with solemn reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof", thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.

Seperation of church and state isnt about preventing anyone in the government from including religion in their life, its about seperating the church and state bodies.

Look at the persecution that went on in europe before the first settlers left for america, all of that was caused by the absolute authority of the roman catholic state which at the time was both the church and the government.

If you look deep into the basis of our government you can clearly see that its built to be everything that the roman-catholic church/government body was at the time of the pilgrimage.

As well as the "seperation of church and state", there are some other texts that prevent the government from becoming a tyranny.
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Yeah, and I'd like to note chief justice Moore's steadfastness on this arguement.

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