Church, Politics and State Education Systems

[steelish]

The separation of church and state had more to do with how political the church became than how religious government became.

When our founding fathers created this new nation, they didn't want a repeat of what happened with the British government. The English had very political churches, which helped "rule" the masses. Church was a form of propaganda for politics. Our founding fathers wanted a new land in which we had religious freedom and politics had no place in religion.

[Thorne]

Our founding fathers wanted a new land in which we had religious freedom and politics had no place in religion.

Now if we could only get the religion out of politics we'd all be better off.