Separation of church and state

Template:Stub A "myth" perpetrated by "revisionist historians" that there should be no official national religion in the United States. Seeing the results of centuries of religious strife in then-officially Christian Europe, the Founders chose to prohibit the state from endorsing any particular faith. The Establishment Clause of the Constitution has been interpreted in this manner, notably by Thomas Jefferson (who coined the phrase "Wall of separation between Church and State" in his Letter to the Danbury Baptists [insert reference]).

Many Conservapedia readers, however, believe that this prohibits the state from endorsing any particular sect of Christianity, while claiming that the Founding Fathers of course required the United States to be a Christian country, founded by and for Christians. The Treaty of Tripoli, drafted during Washington's presidency and ratified by John Adams, states that "The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." Many proponents of a Christian America point out that the treaty was superceded by the Treaty of Peace and Amity in 1805 (although the superceding of the treaty does not change John Adams' secular view of the United States).

Likewise, the evidence that the reference to the Creator in the Declaration of Independence may equally refer to the Deist God rather than the Christian God is often ignored. Conservapedia articles typically do not acknowledge that non-Christians might still believe in God.