Thanks Pilgrim! Yeah, even as far as our American founders, many who were not truly confessionally Christian (either in personal /private conviction and/or practice) who advocated a more pronounced separation of church and state, the ultimate result (which probably not intended for some of the more cynical, unbelieving rationalists) is that the practice of true religion and the individual conscience to engage in such can flourish (or at least coexist with the false varieties/professors).

What may have been intended for the deconstruction of true religion as far as state establishments (in the minds of men like Jefferson), although many states were already headed that way, actually enabled true religion to become more a matter of personal assent and spirit wrought conviction, rather than a state mandate. Its not that freedom of religion can’t have unintended consequences, but it’s the best we got (free of politicalization and state taint). God can use bad intentions of men for a greater good for the sake of His elect. The best we can do against the promotion of laws/proposals based on illogical and illegitimate (false) religion is to resist (when/if public discourse & rational representation ultimately fail us).

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