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DP. If separation of church and state is a Christian principle, why did it take 1600 years of Christianity for Christians to figure that out? I'm a Christian and I believe in freedom of religion, but it's not inherent in Christianity. [/quote]

“Render unto Caesar what is due Caesar and unto God what is due God.” (Matthew 22:15-22, Mark 12:14-17 and Luke 20:29-26).

Separation of church and state is definitely part of Christianity. Whether or not the ancient Greeks had it too. (The claim that it can’t exist in Christianity because somebody else had the same thought is a little silly—did the Greeks have a patent on that idea?) Whether or not Europe went through centuries of the “divine right of kings,” and BTW the whole idea of anointing kings is more an OT thing anyway. [/quote]

If you can't see the incredible irony of your post - where you claim the [b]Greeks don't get credit f[/b]or an idea they had centuries before the birth of Christ but somehow that same idea can be claimed as a [b]uniquely[/b] "judeo christian value" -- well, wow, you should see that irony. Because it is really ironic.[/quote]

Please. Nobody here ever said
- the Greeks don’t get credit, or 
- the idea is “uniquely” Judeo-Christian.

You made that up. What several of us ARE saying is that (1) nobody has a patent on ideas, and also that (2) the same ideas can arise at different times and in different contexts. Separation of church and state IS a Christian idea, even if it’s not exclusively Christian. Perhaps if you drew a Venn diagram that would help.

Also, where is your answer to the point about Thomas Jefferson’s modified New Testament? By your own logic, who “won” that one?[/quote]

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