re: America is facing a threat of biblical proportion: The rise of Christian nationalism

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I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.

Thomas Jefferson wrote this in a response to Danbury Baptist Association. He was the sitting President at the time.

So no, it is not in the Constitution. I think people associate it with the Constitution because Thomas Jefferson wrote the letter.

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Not to mention it’s only a separation in one direction, that the state cannot establish or prevent the free exercise thereof. There was no contemplation that the government would not reflect the morals of the Christian people who were creating such government or that those Christian people would not serve in such government and be guided by their faith and according to Biblical principles.