[Alex Murphy]

America’s first mega-church, defined as a congregation of 2,000 attendees or more, held services in the capitol building inside the House of Representatives....According to the diary of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, church services were also held in the Treasury building and the Supreme Court Building. He describes the Reverend James Laurie, pastor of a Presbyterian Church, that had settled into the Treasury Building, preaching to an overflow audience in the Supreme Court Chamber, which in 1806 was located on the ground floor of the Capitol....

....For those who may not be aware, the term, "separation of church and state," is not in the Constitution or in any other American document until liberal judges twisted and injected it for their own agenda, which really happened in the 1940s. The phrase is found in a personal letter that President Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Baptist Association in Danbury, Conn., for the purpose of assuring Baptists that the federal government would not mandate a "federal religion"....

....There were churches operating inside government facilities during the time of President Thomas Jefferson. This practice of religion and government being entwined lasted decades beyond his presidency. In fact, Thomas Jefferson attended church services every Sunday morning inside the chambers of the U.S. House where he had a reserved seat. If Thomas Jefferson truly believed that the separation of church and state meant a systematic removal of religion from all government buildings and operations, then he violated his own belief by attending church inside government facilities.

[YHAOS]

See also:
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
The Library of Congress - see http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html
and following

[YHAOS]

Here We Go.

[I Drive Too Fast]

For some interesting history check out Robert Aitken whose Bible was Endorsed by Congress.

[DiogenesLamp]

I get into this argument with people from time to time. Last time I had one of these arguments, I shut the man up by posting Lincoln's orders to the troops in 1862.

Who's gonna refute Abraham Lincoln?

[DJ MacWoW]

Don't know if anyone has seen these before.

'A Wall of Separation' - FBI Helps Restore Jefferson's Obliterated Draft

Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists The Draft and Recently Discovered Text

Jefferson first wrote: "confining myself therefore to the duties of my station, which are merely temporal, be assured that your religious rights shall never be infringed by any act of mine and that."

[tpanther]

The answer is because reasonable people do nothing.

AMEN !!!!!!!!

Seems a fitting place for one of my latest favorites too:

“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

Sir Winston Churchhill