Without preachers and their sermons, there would have been no American Revolution. John Witherspoon, Jonathan Mayhew, Abraham Keteltas, James Caldwell, Peter Muhlenberg and other clergy not only gave Biblical justification to the war but often served in combat themselves. And today, thanks to LBJ, the IRS and some recent Supreme Court rulings, religion and politics are not allowed to mingle.
The founders would not have believed it could happen.
Shortly after Thomas Jefferson retired his position as first President of Washington's public schools, there were only 3 books which were required teaching... Grey's Reader, Watts Hymnal, and The Bible.
Were these books used as a result of Jefferson, or instituted very shortly after his departure from public life? History is unclear on this point, which can be debated ad nauseum, but one fact is glaringly unchallenged.
That fact is that during our early years as a newly-founded nation, the Bible was one of the books, and the only religious text, taught in our public schools.
That fact alone gives lie to the neo-liberal-concept of "Separation of Church and State" as it is abused today, and gives truth to America's having been founded as a Christian nation.
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Apparently, however, the law is not applied to mosques. 80% of them are Saudi funded terror centers preaching Wahhabi violence and the IRS doesn't even examine them.