Quote Originally Posted by Wind_Walker25 View Post
I agree! And in the USA no war was start over religion, well Maybe 9/11 was started by one.
as for seperation of church and state. that was to protect the Church from the State..
I respectfully disagree with this assumption. This is one of the lies that the Christian Fundamentalist right has assigned to the U.S. The other one being that the U.S. was established as a Christian nation. It was not. Most of the founders of the nation were very secular and wanted to create a nation where ALL religions could feel comfortable and would belong.

At the time of the forming of this nation and for hundreds of years before, the ruling monarchy decided what religion his or her subjects followed, including, of course, England. And religion was a political tool of the government. The founders of this nation wanted to create a nation where religion was never used as this tool and all people could worship as they chose.

What the fundamentalist Christian right wants to create is the same thing that has been created in nations such as the Taliban created in Afghanistan, or as Atheism was used in the former Soviet Union. So they spread the lies that this is a Christian nation, it was not seen as such by the founders, not at all.

The separation between church and state was established to protect the PEOPLE from Monarchic and Theocratic tyranny much more than to protect a church. Fundamentalist leaders love to change history and obfuscate science for their own aims.