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[–] Kal [S] 4 points 3 points (+7|-4) ago  (edited ago)

I'm not sure what you mean, but if you read about Freedom of Religion in the first amendment also being Freedom from Religion you'll see that I am not just pulling that out of thin air.

There have been enough books on this subject to fill libraries. Perhaps you should get busy reading?

The Founding Fathers had a radically different conception of religious freedom. Influenced by the Enlightenment, they had great confidence in the individual's ability to understand the world and its most fundamental laws through the exercise of his or her reason. To them, true religion was not something handed down by a church or contained in the Bible but rather was to be found through free rational inquiry. Drawing on radical Whig ideology, a body of thought whose principal concern was expanded liberties, the framers sought to secure their idea of religious freedom by barring any alliance between church and state.

http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i7500.html