by D. Cupples | Some of our Founding Fathers had a colorful way of speaking. Thomas Paine, for example, said this about the separation of church and state:
"Soon after I had published the pamphlet `Common Sense' in America I saw the exceeding probability that a revolution in the system of government would be followed by a revolution in the system of religion.
"The adulterous connection of church and state, wherever it had taken place, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, had so effectually prohibited by pains and penalties every discussion upon established creeds, and upon first principles of religion, that until the system of government should be changed those subjects could not be."
That said, I'm more than a bit surprised that Sen. Barack Obama seems to be proposing less (rather than more) separation between church and state. Yesterday, the God-O-Meter blog reported:
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