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PART V CEREMONIAL DEISM PROTECTS THE REMNANTS OF THE DE FACTO ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION There are world leaders in other countries that tell us we don’t even live up to our own ideal of church state separation so long as we have things like "ceremonial deism" that are hold overs from our de facto establishment of Protestant Christianity at times in the 1800s that we refuse to declare them unconstitutional which in fact they are, and we have things like Chaplains in Congress etc. HOW UNITED STATES CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS PLAY ON THE WORLD STAGE By MARCI HAMILTON http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20010705.html [EXCERPT] What the European Professors Had to Say About Our Application of James Madison’s Theory For example, two professors came to me after my talk, in which I discussed James Madison’s devotion to the concept of separation of church and state. They thought that Madison’s theory was all well and good, but they believed that it was obsolete; the United States, they claimed, had long ago decided to adopt an established church. Our actions, they said, speak louder than our words. As I shook my head vigorously, thinking we had a language barrier between us, they pulled out their prime proof: legislative chaplains
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