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But it was shoehorned in. The founding fathers very much did not want the government to be dictated to by religion. They also very much wanted people to be able to practice which ever religion they wanted. This is why there is the concept of separation of church and state with the establishment clause. The pledge itself wasn't even around until the Civil War, and was worded differently than what is used today. There'…
Actually, it’s the “separation of church and state” that’s more analogous to the civil war memorials being a 20th century creation. “Separation of church and state” isn’t in the Constitution. It was something Jefferson said, but he was not representative of the founding fathers on that point. John Adams, by contrast, said: “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to th…
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> It literally just says the federal government can’t interfere with the official state churches, which were called “established churches” (and that the federal government couldn’t establish a church itself).
You are down selecting only half of what the simple statement says. You are making a distinction of “interference” not in the text.
No religious establishment based “interference”, yes that is consistent with the phrase, but less general than the actual phrase which includes no such restriction.
It also is consistent with no establishment based “preference”.
“No law…” is the actual clear, simpler, and more general wording.