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    16 hours ago

    Article IV of the constitution

    “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States”

    Anyone who’s read even a little bit about the American colonies and the American revolution knows that the founders were NOT cool with state religion. The Church of England was being used a tool of tyranny, and America’s foundered did not want to recreate that system.