The Founding Fathers had good reasons to separate church from state in the creation of America.
For prior to that the church often controlled the state in various places around the world, and did many of the awful things listed before (look up the Inquisition sometime for just one example). The main way a church liked to perpetrate its crimes was to outlaw all competing religions in the territory it controlled, so that it'd then have a 'legal' excuse to kill or torture or hound basically whomsoever it liked-- including some of its own followers at times (when they didn't act slavishly enough to powerful leaders). That's why in America we Constitutionally prohibit our government from preferring one religion over another (however, as American politicians have become more corrupt over decades, they've increasingly tried to ignore their oaths to uphold the Constitution, as well as ignore that ban and all the history behind it, and go around it to promote Christianity).
My friend shared with me, that does not mean freedom from religion.
The moral fabric of our country has been desimated by a minority who are offended by expres... more