Even though the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits a state religion and prohibits the state from making religious beliefs illegal, early Supreme Court opinions used the phrase “separation of Church and State” to put a wall between religion and state. We can see the wisdom of this by looking at the lives of people living in places like Pakistan, India, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia today or, like our founders did, almost any European country during the Middle Ages. Our founders created a country ruled by laws to minimize deceit, theft and murder with minimal impact on people’s rights.