The Wall of Separation Between Church and States

1 The Wall Of Separation Between Church and State. David Domke and Kevin Coe wrote in In The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America, that “For U.S. politicians today, having faith isn’t enough; it must be displayed, carefully and publicly. This is a stark transformation in recent decades.” There has been a rise of religion in American politics over the past seventy five years. From Franklin Roosevelt Christmas tree lighting ceremony to Sarah Palin debating whether Barack Obama belonged to the right religion. But who real had an impact on bringing politics and religion together was Ronald Reagan. Reagan always asked for divine blessings to help him political dealings and it was also believed that the increase in religious pilgrimages rose in his term. Politian’s today use religion to attract voters, identify and attack enemies, and display power. What does this mean for the American opinion of democracy at this point in time, should there be a wall of separation between church and state. Politian now use faith calculatedly, intentionally and supported it without comparison a distinctive difference from the politics of the past. Historically the separation of church and state was establish by a Politian Thomas Jefferson who famously wrote “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 prohibiting the free exercise thereof ’, thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.” Thomas Jefferson who was the

*Domke, David and Kevin Coe. “The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America” New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

*Dreisbach L. Daniel “Thomas Jefferson and The Wall of Separation Between Church and State” New York: New York University, 2002.

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