Conscience, June 22nd, 2003
RELIGION IN AMERICA IS MUCH like Nature in the famous saying of Horace: "Nature, pitchfork it out how you may, keeps tumbling back in on you, slyly overbears your shying from it." In the same way, no matter how much Thomas Jefferson and James Madison tried to pitchfork religion out of official governmental actions, it has kept sneaking back in, beating down attempts to contain it. Madison said that religion is "not within the cognizance of civil government." He did not even want ministers of religion to list their profession in the government's census, since "the general government is proscrib...
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