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To: ansel12

I thought that jefferson coined the metaphoric phrase.

Don’t know that Baptists ever got to head up a state church.

The story is that John the Baptist was killed in part due to his criticism of the temporal authorities, but not for being a Baptist.

10 posted on 12/19/2013 5:07:38 PM PST by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar will soon be relearned.)

To: donmeaker

I sure don’t know what that was about, or how it related to American history.

13 posted on 12/19/2013 5:23:05 PM PST by ansel12 ( Ben Bradley- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)

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