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More and more it appears that "separation of church and state" = "atheism is the state religion."

Is that really what the Founding Fathers intended? I don't think so. The time for massive displays of civil disobedience over this issue is almost at hand.

More and more it appears that "separation of church and state" = "atheism is the state religion." Is that really what the Founding Fathers intended? I don't think so. The time for massive displays of civil disobedience over this issue is almost at hand.

Naw, they just wanted to abolish religion as is evidenced by the following excerpt from the House debates during the proceedings that produced the First Amendment.

"Saturday, August 15, 1789:

The House again went into a Committee of the Whole on the proposed amendments to the Constitution. Mr. Boudinot in the chair.

The fourth proposition being under consideration, as follows: Article 1. Section 9. Between paragraphs two and three insert 'no religion shall be established by law, nor shall the equal rights of conscience be infringed.'

Mr. SYLVESTER had some doubts of the propriety of the mode of expression used in this paragraph. He apprehended that it was liable to a construction different from what had been made by the committee. he feared it might be thought to abolish religion altogether."