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Originally Posted by Seaver
Sort of like the dogmatic believe in separation of church and state?
When it was never a law.
When it was never stated in the Constitution.
When it was simply a footnote in a Jeffersonian speech, and most of the same people choose to ignore his MANY speeches on the right to bear arms?
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Are you saying that you don't understand why people believe that there should be a seperation of church and state? I think the reasoning is clear when the article quoted in the op is taken into account. The founding fathers' role in all this, as far as i'm concerned, is completely tangential. A mere historical footnote.
I don't care about what the founding fathers thought about much of anything, really. As far as i'm concerned their most relevant opinions where codified in a document called the constitution. Beyond that, who cares if ben franklin thought prostitution was okay? The ff's didn't see fit to declare america a christian nation in the constitution, obviously it wasn't that important to them. I don't think it's necessary to use the ff's to bolster an argument as to why there should be a seperation of church and state; religious folk like the ones in the article in the op, or any theocracy that has existed ever, do a good enough job of making it clear why there should be a clear seperation between church and state.