{"id":48,"date":"2005-01-16T05:36:56","date_gmt":"2005-01-16T09:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steenhagen.us\/~jake\/trunk\/?p=48"},"modified":"2005-01-16T05:36:56","modified_gmt":"2005-01-16T09:36:56","slug":"seperation-of-church-and-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/2005\/01\/seperation-of-church-and-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Seperation of Church and State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">Just saw an <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/gerv\/archives\/007300.html\">interesting question<\/a> on Gerv&#8217;s blog. Where exactly did the phrase &#8220;Seperation of Church and State&#8221; come from? And why is it being thrown around to ban anything that may have to do with religion? All throughout the country there are cases where judges are being ordered not to display the ten commandments, schools are being ordered to teach evolution as fact without presenting alternative ideas (no, <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/ID\/6822028\/\">I&#8217;m not kidding<\/a>), and countless other acts where a seemingly vocal minority is forcing atheism (the opposit of &#8216;God exisits&#8217; is &#8216;God doesn&#8217;t exist&#8217;) upon the masses. All this on seems to be based on the phrase &#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof&#8221; from the First Ammendment. Where in there does it saw that the Ten Commandments are illegal or that evolution is a fact?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw an interesting question on Gerv&#8217;s blog. Where exactly did the phrase &#8220;Seperation of Church and State&#8221; come from? And why is it being thrown around to ban anything that may have to do with religion? All throughout the country there are cases where judges are being ordered not to display the ten commandments, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/2005\/01\/seperation-of-church-and-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seperation of Church and State?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EJi-M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}