{"id":968,"date":"2002-08-06T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2002-08-06T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/06\/what-jefferson-really-thought-about-church-and-state\/"},"modified":"2002-08-06T09:14:48","modified_gmt":"2002-08-06T17:14:48","slug":"what-jefferson-really-thought-about-church-and-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/06\/what-jefferson-really-thought-about-church-and-state","title":{"rendered":"What Jefferson Really Thought About Church And State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an inter\u00adest\u00ading tid\u00adbit report\u00aded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/\">The Wash\u00ading\u00adton Times<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/national\/20020805-92493310.htm\">Thomas Jef\u00adfer\u00adson did not want a wall built between church and state<\/a>. There are two books by two dif\u00adfer\u00adent schol\u00adars ref\u00ader\u00adenced in the above arti\u00adcle: Daniel Dreis\u00adbach\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/081471935X\/qid=1028737907\/sr=8-4\/ref=sr_8_4\/103-9697895-5651839\">Thomas Jef\u00adfer\u00adson and The Wall of Sep\u00ada\u00adra\u00adtion Between Church and State<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0674007344\/ref=pd_sbs_b_1\/103-9697895-5651839\">Sep\u00ada\u00adra\u00adtion of Church and State<\/a> by Philip Ham\u00adburg\u00ader.<\/p>\n<p><i>Alan Wolfe, direc\u00adtor of the Boisi Cen\u00adter for Reli\u00adgion and Pub\u00adlic Life at Boston Col\u00adlege, is impressed by the new find\u00adings but doubts they can make a dif\u00adfer\u00adence.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>     \u201cI think it is ter\u00adrif\u00adic schol\u00adar\u00adship, but I don\u2019t think it can change any\u00adthing,\u201d said Mr. Wolfe, who reviewed the Ham\u00adburg\u00ader book and has sur\u00adveyed pub\u00adlic opin\u00adion on pol\u00adi\u00adtics and reli\u00adgion.<\/p>\n<p>     \u201cThe \u2018wall\u2019 idea has tak\u00aden on a life of its own and is part of our cus\u00adtom and law,\u201d Mr. Wolfe said. \u201cAmer\u00adi\u00adcans love God and hate pol\u00adi\u00adtics, so they ask, \u2018Why mix the two?\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read some reviews from Har\u00advard Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty Press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/reviews\/HAMSEP_R.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog\/HAMSEP.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an inter\u00adest\u00ading tid\u00adbit report\u00aded by The Wash\u00ading\u00adton Times: Thomas Jef\u00adfer\u00adson did not want a wall built between church and state. There are two books by two dif\u00adfer\u00adent schol\u00adars ref\u00ader\u00adenced in the above arti\u00adcle: Daniel Dreis\u00adbach\u2019s Thomas Jef\u00adfer\u00adson and The Wall of Sep\u00ada\u00adra\u00adtion Between Church and State and Sep\u00ada\u00adra\u00adtion of Church and State by Philip \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/06\/what-jefferson-really-thought-about-church-and-state\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cWhat Jef\u00adfer\u00adson Real\u00adly Thought About Church And State\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-fC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}