It was, after all, the Baptists that needed Thomas Jefferson's assurance that the government would keep out of religion. His response to them gives us that great phrase, "...a wall of separation between church and state."


Worth repeating. A wall of separation. Take your confabulations of theology and get them the hell out of the public sector, out of the civic dialogue, out of the commons. Keep them in your private homes and hearts, where the voice of God belongs, not in the workings of social establishment bringing the diverse together to build a better nation. There, let the spirit of the universe work as it may without forms or the slathering of cheap tongues.

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