Weaponizing Fiction for Faith

America is for all faiths and religions, not just one

The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Thomas Jefferson, a founding father and third president of the US, coined the term “separation of church and state” in an 1802 letter to the Danbury Association in Connecticut, although the concept goes much farther back in history. Jefferson referenced a wall of separation between church and state due to the Bill of Rights in his letter to the Baptists, noting that “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God… I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”1 The US Supreme Court first utilized this concept in an 1878 case. In 1947 the Supreme Court incorporated the establishment of this clause for states in “Everson c. Board of Education”.