In this world, there are some countries that are irreligious in totality, some that mandate a specific religion to the exclusion of all else, and some that have little or no religious restrictions. Additionally, there are some countries that are run exclusively as a secular nation, to which the laws as given by the secular government rule all, there are other countries that are run as a theocracy to which religious law trumps all, and there are some countries that utilize common law as the moral and the foundational basis for their State law.
The United States was a country founded by peoples wishing to express their religious beliefs without interference by secular States or Government agencies. That is why there is no establishment of religion in our 1st Amendment to our Constitution, thereby prohibiting the National Government from mandating one State religion to the exclusion of all else. Additionally, our Declaration of Independence, made it clear that our rights came from our Creator, not by our Government or by our former King of England, but were embedded within us as human beings, and that consequently Governments are elected amongst us in order to protect and to secure these rights.
Unfortunately, today rather than the State working hand-in-glove with religious organizations, they are often on opposing sides. This is contrary to the very foundational documents that rule this great nation and a great disservice to our citizens. As time has marched on within America, people and the individual states, have ceded power and control or have had power and control wrested from them, so that the National Government as a whole "holds over" the people in general. A country to which you are no longer able to have public displays of religious symbols on public property that no longer permits government-endorsed voluntary prayer at public schools and a government that negates our Constitution and Declaration of Independence by asserting that there should be a separation of
Church and State is a government that has overstepped its boundaries.
Before there was this massive State apparatus in America, there was the Church, people, and communities working together to better themselves. For instance, education was led not by our National government, there was no free public education in early America, but was often led by the religious institutions in the community, or by the parents, with the recognition that education was important for the continuing progress of any great nation. Today, it is the National Government for the most part that dictates to the individual States, school boards, and to the people, the roadway and rules of how our youth will be educated.
While the National Government ostensibly is in charge of our public education for the greater good, their purpose is also to propagandize today's youth to believe that the greatest good that any citizen of this country can produce is to serve their country willingly and without question. This is a bastardization of the meaning of life, a rebuke to the Founding Fathers of this great land, and a grand disservice to all. Our National Government is quite clear that they recognize that a human soul cannot successfully serve both God and mammon, so their objective is to marginalize the Church and to make the State the quasi-church of America.
Consequently, in America today, the Church and the State are battling for the hearts and souls of Americans. Should the Church, as we know it, become compromised or to lose this battle, America will fall, because a foundation built on human ego, greed, and deception, is a foundation built on sand, which will not stand through the tides of time.