Separation of Church & State

Over these past few decades, the phase “separation of church & state” has been used to sabotage the church from engaging in the public square. The goal was to silence the church and make it irrelevant in the political arena.

It’s a lie that needs to be exposed! POSTHASTE!

Here’s the real story.

“Separation of Church & State – What the Founders Meant,” is a book written by the Founder of Wallbuilders, David Barton. The following text can be located on pages 12 and 13 of this book.

On October 7, 1801, the Danbury Baptist Association of Danbury, Connecticut, sent a letter to President Thomas Jefferson expressing their concern that protection for religion had been written into the laws and constitutions.

They strongly believed that freedom of religion was an inalienable right given by God. However the fact that it appeared in civil documents suggested that the government viewed it as a government-granted rather than a God-granted right.

Apprehensive that the government might someday wrongly believe that it did have the power to regulate public religious activities, the Danbury Baptist communicated their anxiety to President Jefferson. Footnote 36.

On January 1, 1802, Jefferson responded to their letter. He understood their concerns and agreed with them that man accounted only to God and not to government for his faith and religious practice.

Jefferson emphasized to the Danbury Baptists that none of man’s natural (i.e., inalienable) rights – including the right to exercise one’s faith publicly – would ever place him in a situation where the government would interfere with his religious expressions. Footnote 37.

He assured them that because of the wall of separation, they need not fear government interference with religious expressions:

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, …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 and State. Footnote 38.

In his letter, Jefferson made clear that the “wall of separation” was erected not to limit public religious expressions but rather to provide security against governmental interference with those expressions, whether private or public. (On numerous other occasions, Jefferson repeatedly affirmed that the sole purpose of the First Amendment was to ensure that the federal government could not interfere with public religious expressions. Footnote 39).

Dear Reader, now that you know the TRUTH, please spread the word.

Postscript…during the COVID-19 chaos years, the government did interfere, by mandating churches to close their doors and to not have worship services. Churches were deemed non-essential, while liquor stores were deemed essential…