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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 331: The separation of church and state
Description: The boys drink and review a disappointing homebrew, then discuss the 1st Amendment and the separation of church and state.
The well-known phrase actually does not come from the constitution, but from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists.
The founder's main concern was to prevent the federal government from imposing a religion on the individual states, which, at the time, often had their own established religions.
Today we apply the first amendment to both federal and state governments, but that wasn't true for the first several decades of the Republic. <...