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In this context, the phrase "separation of church and state" is easier to understand.
Western Civilization is largely Christian Civilization. All of Europe was Christian, a part of the "Holy Roman Empire." When England broke away from the "Holy Roman Empire," it by no means meant to declare to the world that it was "un-holy." "Holier than thou" was still politically correct. In Britain there was a state church, a state denomination: The Church of England (Anglicanism). Taxes paid for the Anglican clergy.
After the American Revolution, nobody in America wanted their taxes to go to the clergy of the Church of England (understandably!). But if taxes were to finance any church, which church would it be? Baptist? Presbyterian? Congregational? Years before the Constitution was ratified, each state agreed that there would be no more established state-church: Not the Methodist, not the Episcopalian, not the Roman Catholic. In some states, taxes went to all denominations equally. But other states eliminated government church subsidies altogether, a "downsizing of government" that no one alive today disagrees with. The Founders' doctrine might better be called "the Separation of Denomination and State." Repeat: No one alive today disagrees with this concept. Not the Christian Coalition, not the Rutherford Institute, not the Chalcedon Foundation.
But this is not what "the separation of church and state" means today. Emphatically not.
Those who required Christian "test oaths" before the Revolution also envisioned America as a "City on a Hill," taking the Gospel to all the world. Those who despise Christian "test oaths" also despise the Puritan vision of a Christian America. This website is an attempt to restore both.