[TheRealThing]

But, these very schools are the reason that your post of "26 of the fathers had seminary degrees" is wrong. They may well have had degrees from these schools, which started as seminaries, but they had no such seminary degree like you wanted it to sound. Liberty is a seminary, but it has many more subject taught, other than religion. If I got a degree from Liberty in a secular subject, I might could legally say I had a seminary degree, but it would really be a dishonest statement. You were making it sound like they had degrees in biblical type studies, which is false. And yes, those Ivy school started out as being called seminaries.

As for the Danbury letter, if you take it in whole, and with the letter Danbury sent to Jefferson, which elicited his response, it would be plain to you that he was in fact separating "church and state", as well as separating "state and church. context means everything thing in writings, and the context is plain in those. The Danbury letters prove my point, not yours.

Maybe, I don't interpret everything the way you do. For instance, when Jefferson wrote the words "between a man and his God" I don't see "his" as meaning 'his god of choice' like he has a choice from among Buddah, Allah, or Jehovah. I see that as meaning 'his God by submission to the truth' and that the relationship between man and God is PERSONAL. Like a man and his wife.