Maybe the most disturbing video I have seen.

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This sort of thing has been fundamental in American history since before we were a country. It started for real in the 1730's, and since Pilgrims, Puritans and freethinkers came here at least partly for religious freedom (and don't forget Pennsylvania started as a strictly Quaker colony) it could be said the country was founded on religious ideas, many of them half-assed. The separation mentioned in the Constitution is more a warning of what we could be if we don't watch it rather than an affirmation of what we were.

Goggle up Great Awakening and note the three big ones we had-- with maybe a fourth in the 60s and a fifth right now. Don't ignore how pulpits were crucial in fighting slavery and Jim Crow and that William Jennings Bryan, the nutter of the Monkey Trial, was so far to the left he could school Kucinich and stepped down as Secretary of State when we entered WWI because he was a pacifist and his principles wouldn't allow him to serve a nation at war.

Rather than all this handwringing and whining, check out how we survived it in the past.