Originally Posted By: bait dunker
That's your, along with many others misinterpritation of the first amendment. Had the constitution wanted a wall seperating church and state, there would be no mention of God in our founding documents, prayer in congress etc.

You are correct in that the founders didn't want a repeat of the mess with the church of England, but they only intended to keep government out of religion, not the other way around. No matter who twists it how they do it, there is no "seperation of church and state" in the US constitution. Ms.O'Donnell is correct, it's not written anywhere in the constitution.


BD, perhaps you need a refresher on U.S. history and our founding fathers. If you think that somewhere in the constitution it says that Christianity belongs in government, you are (thankfully) mistaken. Our founding fathers were deists, not fundamentalist Christians as they are often portrayed by right-wingers. They were too smart and too successful of businessmen to worry about trivial things like religion (specifically Christianity).

Why in the world would non-Christians say that it's OK for Christianity to have a place in a fledgling democracy? They didn't, because they knew it would lead to problems. If you want religion in your government, move to Iran and tell us how it's working out for you.

I provide for you some links for light reading:

http://freethought.mbdojo.com/foundingfathers.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism

http://www.earlyamericanhistory.net/founding_fathers.htm

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/myth.html

http://vftonline.org/TestOath/deism.htm

There are a million more. You could spend an entire day reading these things. Actually reading about history could provide you and your teabag buddies some enlightenment rather than acting like you know what people in the 1700s wanted and knew.