• danielton@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It started long before him, unfortunately. There was a reason the US had to be deliberate about the separation of church and state from the beginning.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve already responded to this thinking below. Things run in cycles at times the US was far more religious than we are now. At other times, much less so.

      When Reagan got elected, the country was definitely not a particularly powerful force in politics. Carter didn’t try to push his religious beliefs on the nation. Neither did Nixon or LBJ. They themselves were reasonably religious, but it wasn’t a cornerstone of their political beliefs. Reagan changed all that and his marriage of the GOP and the Religious Right continues to this day.