For all the lunatics who keep shouting about how this country was founded as a Christian nation, and how there should not be a separation of church and state please turn your attention to a couple of quotes from Jefferson — author of the Declaration of Independence, and Madison — the father of the Constitution.

Jefferson spoke of “this loathsome combination of church and state” and a little gem from James Madison.  He said —

“The civil Government, though bereft of everything like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success, whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the Church from the State.”

My italics.