Even the Pope Gets It: Church-State Separation Lets Religion Thrive
Thanks to Lauren Smith at AU for posting a link to this Reuters story relaying the Pope's remarks en route to the US on the role of faith in public life.
"What I find fascinating about the United States is that it began with a positive concept of the lay state," he said."This new people was made up of communities and people who fled from state churches and wanted to have a lay state, secular and open to possibilities for all confessions, for all forms of religious expression.
"They were against a state church ... precisely out of their love of religion and of its authenticity, which can only be lived freely," he said.