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came to a head in France at the beginning of the 19th Century. The lycees were the first schools set up which were not under church domination.

Nobody ever thought of the separation of Church and State as a philosophical problem in this country. I've thought about this a lot, and Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam and them all make me sick with the way they rant around. What they have done is to bring about the glorification of secularization, which I think is terrible! I don't want this country to become secular. I think it's dreadful. The founding fathers of this country founded it under God. “In God we Trust” they put on the coinage. They began their Declaration and their Constitution with references to Almighty God. They jolly well knew that they served God and not man, and that they had no hope of success with “any nation so conceived” if they didn't do it under the will and under the rule of God.

Some of these third-rate minds and thin, shallow people think that God and the Church are one and the same thing. When they say church, they don't know what they mean by church. They don't know whether they mean the Roman Catholic Church or whether they mean all Christian bodies or whether they mean Christian bodies and Jewish





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