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Originally Posted by Kitana85

Read the Constitution, there is no seperation of church and state. That entire idea is a misinterpretion of the first amendment which states that there will be no offical National religion (ie The Church of England, R Catholocism in France and Italy), and that they national government can not prohibit a religion, or any group for practicing their own religion (incidentally, the local governemnt, constitutionally, can).

The Seperation of church and state was an idea enforced my Jefferson and Madison, latter much more strongly. Indeed, until Madison's presidency, previous executives had declared National Days of Prayer.

That's the problem with separation of church and state. We are a country built on religious ideals by religious people and now we are trying to weed the religion out without disrupting the rest. In my personal opinion, it's not possible.