anyone who doesn't believe in evolution should stop taking antibiotics since pharmacology is based completely upon it. natural selection will then reslove this issue once and for all when all the creationists keel over from gangrenous paper cuts and leave only evolutionists in the breeding population. ;-)
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Originally posted by Ustwo
Agreed. Someone please show me where that comes up in any of the founding documents and amendments to said documents.
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you are correct, but to say that the concept is a "figment of the left's imagination" is assinine (to use one of your favorite expressions ;-)). From
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The First Amendment reads, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Contrary to popular belief, the phrase "separation of church and state" appears in no founding American document. The concept of a "wall of separation between church and state," is often interpreted as prohibiting religious expressions in public settings (schools, courtrooms, etc.). The phrase was first used by Thomas Jefferson in a 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists (a religious minority concerned about the dominant position of the Episcopal church in Virginia). His intention was to assure this religious minority that their rights would be protected from undue external interference. The two prohibitions of the First Amendment have been viewed as rather contradictory, and one common theme in court rulings in the United States is to resolve situations with the estatablishment clause and the free exercise clause contradict each other.
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i think this quote, from the author of our bill of rights, sums up the intent of separation very well:
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries. —James Madison.
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