[CecilRhodesGhost]

It's found in a series of letters, I believe, between "Founding Fathers" of the USA. From those letters, it was used as a basis for past legislation.

Some argue that religous beliefs are a major cause of war and turmoil. On the global stage, many opinion leaders have been forced to re-examine how much fundamentalist from various religions play a role in social conflicts. Some argue that America, as well as the world, needs to mend fences by adopting a belief-system that translates across all established religions. Only then can world peace be achieved, the theory goes.

[Sabertooth]

It's found in a series of letters, I believe, between "Founding Fathers" of the USA. From those letters, it was used as a basis for past legislation.

Nope. It's found in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the leaders of a church, more than 20 years after the Constitution was ratified.

Jefferson was not a signer of the Constitution, BTW.

[FormerLurker]

It's found in a series of letters, I believe, between "Founding Fathers" of the USA. From those letters, it was used as a basis for past legislation.

Prove it. I can find MANY items of correspondence back from the birth of our Nation that DO mention GOD. Why don't you take a peek at the Declaration of Independence for starters.

Some argue that religous beliefs are a major cause of war and turmoil. On the global stage, many opinion leaders have been forced to re-examine how much fundamentalist from various religions play a role in social conflicts. Some argue that America, as well as the world, needs to mend fences by adopting a belief-system that translates across all established religions. Only then can world peace be achieved, the theory goes.

That "theory" was postulated in the Communist Manifesto, and it was Stalin, Marx, Lenin, and other such luminaries that subscribed to that "theory".

[Hacksaw]

Some argue that religous beliefs are a major cause of war and turmoil.

Yes, I believe you can find this argument in the Communist Manifesto.

[pby]

I believe you are referring to a letter from Thomas Jefferson to some Baptists.

If separation of church and state, as now defined, is what Jefferson was referring to in his letter, then why when Jefferson established the public school system in Washington, DC did he require the Bible and the Watts hymnal as textbooks?

Only serious historic revisionism allows the current definition of seperatation of church and state.