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vermin,
The founding fathers where not strong christian moralists. They were deiests, and Masons. (They often used religious arguments in the Federalist Papers to sell the new govenment to the population, however, which is where alot of the modern confusion arises from.)
This means in essence that they were VERY serious about keeping the country out of the hands of any one church.
This actually makes alot more sense when you examine history from THIER perspective.
You see, most of us do not see what the big deal is because we have never lived through a holy war. The FFs would have been all to familiar with religion as a motivator for murder and mayhem.
Also, most people came to the US to get away from the reformation/counter reformation wars. The C.o.E. was good for england, but suppressed all minorities, which was no fun for them. (IE, the puritans)
This is what the FFs were trying to avoid.
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