Jon_MeachamThe Founders created a “context in which religion and politics mixed but church and state did not.  The Founders’ insight was that one might as well try to build a wall between economics and politics as between religion and politics, since both are about what people feel and how they see the world.  Let the religious take their stand in the arena of politics and ideas on their own, and fight for their views on equal footing with all other interests.  American public life is neither wholly secular nor wholly religious but an ever-fluid mix of the two.  History suggest that trouble tends to come when one of these forces grows too powerful in proportion to the other.” [1]—Jon Meacham

[1]Jon Meacham, “The End of Christian America,” Newsweek, April 13, 2009 edition, p. 37 (pp. 34-38).