The United States would not have survived as a nation, had it not been for the wisdom of these two founding fathers when it came to understanding the need for the complete separation of church and state, and for the absolute necessity of making it a constitutional principle directly related to the freedom of conscience and of placing religious practice in a separate category from politics where, even though Christianity would excercise considerable influence, it would not have the power to drag the nation into disaster.

This is one of the reasons why America is a great nation, and does not need to be made great "again."

Christianity, when it was accorded the political power of the state under Constantine, became the cause around which some of the bloodiest and deadly events in human history was centered. Most instruction in world history in the United States is too biased to acknowledge this fact, or teach the truth about it. It is soft-peddaled, passed over, ignored and in many cases, what is taught is an outright lie. It is, in fact, almost impossinle to name a war or a season of war that did not have Christianity as the catalyst behind it.

Jefferson, Madison and the other founding fathers had a front seat from which to observe religious persecution in America, perpetrated by those who belonged to the dominant religious majority on the minority. The Puritans in Massachusetts did not tolerate any divergent beliefs, eliminating their perceived enemies by controlling the magistrates and making doctrinal differences and preaching without the state's permission a crime. As a result, dissenters were driven out of the colony, the most notable being the Baptists who established Rhode Island for their own religious liberty.

The Christian nationalist country envisioned by the Heritage Foundation and conservative Evangelicalism would be as violent and deadly as the Hundred Years War. Their interpretation of the Bible is skewed beyond recognition when it comes to the practice of the values of the Christian gospel. They prefer an Old Testament perspective where a vengeful god orders the murder of his enemies. That's anti-Christian, demonic and evil, but it's the doctrine in which they have wrapped themselves. And even with church-state separation that most Americans do not understand, or of which they are just ignorant, it's hard enough to hold the line. How bad would it be if we didn't have that very clear Constitutional principle they can do nothing about.