The vast majority of Americans DO NOT want to lower the wall the founding fathers erected. They do WANT the flimsey extensions built with false reasoning, to be eliminated.
While some of the founding fathers may not have been fervently religious, none of them wanted God and moral values completely eliminated from the political process.
The guideline is this. The government shall make no law governing the establishment of a religion. The practice of religion is untouchable as long as it doesn't flagrantly violate reasoned moral values.
The idea that God couldn't mentioned in the classroom is absurd. The idea that the ten commandments couldn't be posted in public institutions equally so.
The United States was founded as a nation under a clearly Christian influence. U.S. citizens should never forget this, or be ashamed to declare this fact.
The idea that Mohamdism, Santeria, Bhudism and other religions should stand on equal footing in the U.S. with Christianity, is the real absurdity. Those religions are celebrated in other societies. Those who think they are better than Christianity should move to the societies that have adopted them, and live under the conditions their worshipers created.
It is astounding to me, that people should look at what the observers of those religions created in their nations of origion, then demand that our society adopt them here.
Christianity was the guiding influence on the nation that gained unquestioned predominance on the planet. And now it is being disected by adherants to everything else. Sad.
This used to be said of Catholicism.
Not to be picking holes in your coat, but the exact wording is "Congress"; shall make no law...etc." not "government".
There is a BIG difference.
The Congress of the United States is a single, established, limited body of representative governance of and for the United States.
OTOH, The "government" of the United States is a wide open term that can mean anything from the very highest office in the federal government, to the elected part-time dog catcher/mayor of Teenytinytown, N. Dakota (pop. 751).
Why I bother to bring this up -- other than risk making a complete nuisance of myself -- is b/c it is this phrase ("Congress shall make no law...") that is the bone of contention in the tug of war over Christmas scenes, Ten Commandments displays, etc.
To wit:
--One side states that this line in the Constitution is, in deed if not in fact, the "separation of Church and State".
--Whereas the other side points out that the line read that "Congress, shall make no law..." Congress. Not the state and/or local governments. Congress and only Congress shall make no law(s) establishing, etc.
Therefore, some argue, if the government of your town decides it will permit an organization to put up a manger display in the city park, it has every right to do so. B/c the Constitution specified, they say, that "Congress", not simply "the Government" shall make no laws respecting the establishment of religion.