The Incomplete Cynic

evilteabagger:

somethingnew3:

this ticks me off. the separation of church and state was enacted to protect the church from the government, not to exclude religion from politics.

Nah, you’re wrong. The early settlers in America were tired of King George’s Theocracy imposing rules for prayer. This was when separatists and the Great Awakening were beginning to drive people from the Church, and when the church lost money back then so did the State. So they made sure to have a “Wall of separation between church and state” so that the state couldn’t mandate a religion.

In God We Trust was added in the early 50s because this country feared the “Godless Commies”

No, Colonel Sanders…

You misunderstand the difference between “the church” from the OP (Christianity in general) and “the church” you mention (the Church of England). People had already been drawn from the Church of England to other churches (not “away from the church”), but that wasn’t the issue.

The “wall of separation” was put in place so that the federal government couldn’t mandate a denomination, though states were free to do so (and did) until the 14th amendment. It had nothing to do with taxation, nothing to do with a “theocracy”, and the separatists were in operation quite a long time before anyone thought of crossing the Atlantic.

(via antigovernmentextremist)