Lighten Up Ron, et al. It is part of our American Heritage. These are just the seeds of democracy. Man, you guys Out with the gats at a momnents notice. Seed for many things were brought to these shore but if your honest you have to see parallels in American fundamental Christianity and the shape our nation and its government took. In England the Church was the state and vice versa. In America Church government was the substitute for civil government. The same folks were working through these issues of Church and State. One hand washed the other, so to speak. Remember both Harvard and Yale began as seminaries! Most of the founding fathers were devout Christians who sought a middle way that tried to be inoffensive to those of differing faiths. You guys are real quick to give the Devil his due. Give Christianity its due. It's history.