re: The purpose of separation of church and state

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So you're refuting a founding father?

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8 of the original colonies refute letters made by Jefferson.

These state religions even benefitted financially from the state treasuries.

How can the first amendment mean that the "states" cannot have organized religions when 8 of them already had religions?

What was the guiding principle of the Bill of Rights?
To limit the powers of state governments?
Or to limit the powers of the federal governments?

Jefferson was smart. And political.
If he needed to assuage a foreigner on notions of no official US religion, he was going to write such letters in a way.