Thank you for the complete quotation. Now if you care to, would you explain how in recent times it has been construed somehow to read what in my mind it clearly does not say. Specifically, that there is some kind of “wall” between church and state. That somehow we must expunge all mention of God in any public setting. That no-one can utter the word, or talk about it in any way in our schools.

I haven’t seen any evidence to date that any government, local ,state, or national has established any state religion. I have seen plenty of evidence, however of people persuading judges (agents of the government)to enter decrees ” … prohibiting the free exercise thereof” and “… abridging the freedom of speech…”

I guess it would be helpful if folks would distinguish between establishing a religion and simply acknowledging what a majority in this country believe. The two are not the same.

If you go back to the early years of our nation and read contemporary writing on the subject, it is evident that leaders of the time as well as society in general were people of faith who understood the place God had in their lives as well as in the founding of nations.

Finally, I think part of the problem today is that there are folks who stridently insist that they are entitled to freedom FROM religion. This is not what the first amendment to our Constitution was intended to provide.

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