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The Hidden Agenda of
The "Separation of Church and State"
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| The Separationists are forced to ask this question: | |
| Where did the phrase "separation of church and state" originate? | Because the phrase is not to be found in the Constitution. |
| Their page rightly notes that the phrase occurs in Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists (although the metaphor had been used over 100 years before by Roger Williams, who was a Christian who believed government was a divine institution and who made witchcraft a crime). | |
| Their page also notes that the Baptists were complaining about a law which taxed them for the support of a rival denomination, a tax nobody in the Religious Right supports today. There is absolutely no evidence that either the Danbury Baptists or Jefferson believed that the First Amendment compelled schools to stop teaching the Ten Commandments to students. | |
| We consider and refute three other charges against Jefferson's wall metaphor elsewhere in this web page. If you want to read these sections now, click here, here, and here. | If you want to read our rebuttal to these sections now, click here, here, and here. |
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