Wall of Separation: Jefferson’s Intention or Judicial Fabrication?
James F. Gauss, Ph.D.
April 29, 2022
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112 pp; $8.95 (paperback)/$16.95 (hard cover)
Since at least 1947 a fervent debate has raged within political, judicial and religious circles on the issue of “separation of church and state.” The premise is rooted in one phrase used by Thomas Jefferson in his personal correspondence to the Danbury Baptist Church in Connecticut on January 1, 1802. To understand Jefferson’s intent, one must understand his position on religion and personal freedom. Using Jefferson’s own words, “Wall of Separation” investigates this timely and provocative topic that has erroneously changed the course of Christianity as the bedrock of American education and societal morals. This is a second updated and much expanded edition of the author’s first publication on the subject in 2010. Only 112 pages, but packed with irrefutable evidence of Thomas Jefferson’s and the Founding Fathers views on religion in the public square.
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“That crucial link between religion and liberty, so well understood at the Founding, is all too often forgotten today. In American public discourse, perhaps no concept is more misunderstood than the notion of ‘separation of church and state.’ Militant secularists have long seized on that slogan as a facile justification for attempting to drive religion from the public square and to exclude religious people from bringing a religious perspective to bear on conversations about the common good. . . .
“Problems like these have fed the rise of an ever more powerful central government, one that increasingly saps individual initiative, coopts civil society, crowds out religious institutions and ultimately reduces citizens to wards of the state.”
William Barr, U.S. Attorney General
September 23, 2020
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