Every election cycle, we hear A LOT of this from the Democrat Party: “Separation of Church and State.” Those words are found nowhere in the Constitution. They come from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist congregation, reassuring them that the new government would not set up an official state church.
If you took “social studies” in school or collidge, you didn’t know that.
So yeah, we are not allowed to set up a state church that will lord it over all the other churches. The state is not allowed to ban or hamper the free exercise of religion.
And those words are in the Constitution.
As written in the Constitution, this was a good way to express their intent. Many of the people who had come to the colonies wanted religious liberty. Many were Christians from Britain and Europe, and had seen how religious institutions could, and did, abuse their power, and didn’t want any religion operating under sanction of the state. The Separatists whom founded the Plymouth Colony were fleeing that very thing, and made massive sacrifices to break free.
The beauty of this is that it leaves us free to practice our religion as we see fit and this includes not practicing any religion we don’t agree with. We cannot be legally compelled into practices with which we do not agree. That doesn’t imply religious sterility of government. Congressional sessions are opened with prayer. Absolute separation of church and state would be hard to accomplish, and I certainly do not read that into the Constitution.
They only want to estrange us from our Savior.
Satan is working to empower nations to his ends.