In this country, our tradition is 'separation between church and state'. We are the exception to the rule. In the Old Testament we find the Jews living under a theocracy, which is where church & state are merged. In Israel, God was King. This was the way it was back then. The same was later true in Europe. Until the Reformation the Roman Catholic church ran the show and after the Reformation Protestant churches shared that power across Europe. Each 'state' or 'nation' had its national church ... for example, the Church of England was England's national church and had some power in government. Even today, the Queen is the head of the church. That is why our Constitution forbids an official state religion ... a Church of the United States, because under our system you have freedom of religion .... not state enforced freedom from religion as some would have you believe.

It is interesting that it is the 'political liberal' that would enforce 'freedom FROM religion' in this country. Why? It's because 'political liberalism' IS A RELIGION. As such, it sees all others as competition. Think about it. It has its own creation myth, its own clergy, its refusal to have any other god before it. Although it is not yet official, this god seeks to setup a national religion in which it, and it alone is worshiped and adored.