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Old 02-14-2016, 09:39 PM   #14
zeek
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Default Re: W. Nee: POLITICS AND RELIGION

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Originally Posted by Ohio View Post
This is similar to Jefferson's federalist statement "the separation of church and state." It was not that the church could not be a part of the state, but that the state could not rule the church. That was the separation the framers intended.
No. The first amendment to the US Constitution says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." It cuts both ways. Jefferson wanted to prevent state churches like they had in Europe.
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