What did the founding fathers think about the separation of church & state?
Thomas Jefferson
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty."
"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
John Adams
"The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."
Thomas Paine
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set to up terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
James Madison
"Religion and government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together."
"Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance."
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