Thread by @GREENESJ333

Thank G-d for Thomas Jefferson insisting upon "Separation of Church and State" being in the Constitution. We really need to teach American history. As we are nearing the 250th year of this grand experiment that we call the United States of America,
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let me explain about "the Separation of Church and State" clause found within the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson popularized the phrase "wall of separation between church and state" ...
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in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, but he borrowed the metaphor from Roger Williams.

Roger Williams, a Baptist minister and founder of Rhode Island, first used a similar idea in his 1644 book The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution.
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He described a "wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world" to protect the church from civil corruption.

The Danbury Baptists, concerned about Connecticut's established Congregational church,
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wrote to Jefferson seeking reassurance on religious liberty. Jefferson's reply echoed Williams' imagery to affirm the First Amendment's Establishment Clause as a barrier against federal interference in religion.
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Williams fled Puritan Massachusetts due to his advocacy for church-state separation and became the first Baptist minister in America around 1638. His ideas influenced Jefferson and later framers like James Madison in promoting religious freedom.
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The idea was to protect religion from
being corrupted by the workaday world.

It is hard for me to believe that this history between Thomas Jefferson and the Baptist Ministers that the Framers of the Constitution was unknown by this Commission.
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