OK, bare with me here.
You've got to remember the moment in time the bible, for example, was written. This was a period where teaching was done through stories. A document could easily be written as a story. This was also a time of little understanding of how nature works. If it fell from the sky or came out of the sea it was from the gods. I'm not saying the bible is all fact only that science has already proved many of the stories are based on an actual event.
One of the reasons the Egyptian hieroglyphs were so hard to decipher was because they told stories to describe actual events. These stories are like the stories of the bible and often reference a god helping in battle, but you don't see science refusing to study them because they are religious and have no place in science. No, they take these stories and call them historical documents and say you just ignore the reference to a god.
I'm just saying some science of today is a joke. I say some because not all people of science turn such a biased eye when it comes to science. Those scientists that are more interested in finding the truth than their personal beliefs, are the ones that have discovered things such as that pesky sediment ring all over the world dating to the time of the great flood in the bible. You know the one that indicates that there was in fact a great flood.
Ya, science doesn't hesitate to rush off to Oregon when there is a new Bigfoot sighting or spend countless hours and dollars researching Lockness for monsters. It's that many scientists of today have let their personal beliefs get in the way of what they really should be doing.
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...."
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Now tell me how you get that this means no prayer in school? or no mention of god in government buildings?
All this says is Congress(government) can make no law forcing a particular religion on you. Freedom of the religion of your choice is guaranteed. How you can derive separation of church and state out of this is beyond me.
Put this in context with history and it's as plain as can be.