[JME_FAN]

Jefferson argued the point that the Constitution’s establishment clause forbade the government from creating a “state religion.” He did not express nor intend (by even a cursory review of his writings) any opinion forbidding the mention or inclusion of God in the public square, including government. A simple review of the writings of our founders, and their contemporaries, refutes this asinine insistence that a “separation of Church and State” requires the absolute and total banishment of God from the Public square. In fact, quite the opposite is true - and I could provide a litany of examples to support this contention.

Here is a link to the letter: https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html

[Mark17]

Jefferson argued the point that the Constitution’s establishment clause forbade the government from creating a “state religion.”

I think the government has already violated that idea, and has established the religion of peace, as its state religion. 👎😤🤬