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"The phrase “separation of church and state” was initially coined by Baptists striving for religious toleration in Virginia, whose official state religion was then Anglican (Episcopalian). Baptists thought government limitations against religion illegitimate. James Madison and Thomas Jefferson championed their cause.
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The day after the First Amendment’s passage, Congress proclaimed a national day of prayer and thanksgiving. The inaugural Congress was largely comprised by those who drafted the Constitution. It reflects incredible arrogance to reconfigure the Bill of Rights into prohibiting religious displays on public grounds. Hanging the Ten Commandments on the wall of a county courthouse no more mandates religion than judges displaying the banner of their favorite sports team somehow equates to Congress establishing that team as preeminent.
Our forefathers never sought to evict the church from society. They recognized that the several states did not share uniform values. We lived and worshipped differently. The framers were a diverse bunch with wildly divergent opinions on many issues, but eliminating the very foundations of America’s heritage would have horrified them. On few issues was there more unanimity. "
The first amendment to the constitution reads that the Constitution shall make "no law regarding" "the establishment of religion."
Church and State are separate in a legal and financial sense. It is not a declaration that the government can have no affiliation with religion or its symbols/concepts.
As for the statue...
*shrug*
Satanic cults are more about doing things that are designed to try and upset the dogmatic policies of churches. The flawed assumption is that the Church is justified on their account of God and that, thereby doing the opposite makes them followers of Satan.
For alleged worshipers of "The Beast," they don't really understand much about who or what he is.
So it's kind of comical and even adorable in a weird sense. Weird *** rituals, fascination with blood, and material things aren't necessarily 'good' - but far from what condemns you to eternal damnation. The concept of spiritual anarchy is, also, not necessarily anything to do with satanic influence.
True - doing whatever you want out of pure self-interest is potentially destructive to those around you and not good... but it's not something that is worth eternal damnation. A hundred years of self-interest is not something that gets you an eternity of hellfire or special privileged status as a tormenter of those trapped within hellfire. It may make you a prick/***** - but it's entirely forgivable. Animals act almost entirely on self-interest - and we love and adore the hell out of them. It may not be becoming of human beings - but we all make such decisions in life and can't necessarily point fingers.
So, it should be interesting to see how the afterlife pans out for all of us.
Or doesn't pan out at all... that's always a possibility.