Exactly!

Now read it again, but much more carefully, thinking about what that means and not about what you’ve been told it means.

The words are right in front of you.

It doesn’t say “separation of church and state” because they didn’t intend for it to mean “separation of church and state”. It means what it says.

Exactly. Now read it again, but much more carefully, thinking about what that means and not about what you’ve been told it means.

The words are right in front of you.

It doesn’t say “separation of church and state” because they didn’t intend for it to mean “separation of church and state”. It means what it says.

Exactly. Now read it again, but much more carefully, thinking about what that means and not about what you’ve been told it means.

The words are right in front of you.

It doesn’t say “separation of church and state” because they didn’t intend for it to mean “separation of church and state”. It means what it says.

Allow me to reframe it for you.

“Separation of the Federal Congress from authoring laws that affect establishments of religion or the free practice of religion.”

Exactly. Now read it again, but much more carefully, thinking about what that means and not about what you’ve been told it means.

The words are right in front of you.

It doesn’t say “separation of church and state” because they didn’t intend for it to mean “separation of church and state”. It means what it says.

Exactly. Now read it again, but much more carefully, thinking about what that means and not about what you’ve been told it means.

The words are right in front of you.

It doesn’t say “separation of church and state” because they didn’t intend for it to mean “separation of church and state”. It means what it says.