Perhaps Jefferson should have specified the height and thickness of the wall

My feelings about the separation of church and state can be summed up thusly: I want my government to keep its nose out of my church, and my church to keep its nose out of my government. Simple as that. I'm getting sick to death of right-wing "Christians" prattling on about the United States of America being "a Christian nation", claiming that our legal system is based on the Ten Commandments, misrepresenting what the founders of this country thought and said, and so on and so on and so on.

The following quotes are excerpted from a letter to the editor of a local weekly paper called Crosswinds. The letter was written by Robert-Francis Johnson of Santa Fe. I was not familiar with any of these quotes, and I haven't checked their authenticity, but since they were published I'm going to assume that the editor of the paper has (maybe not the wisest assumption, but I'm going with it).

"The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine."--George Washington

"As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion..."--from the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams, June 10, 1797

"Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?"--James Madison, in "Memorial and Remonstrance," 1785

"Neither a state nor the Federal Government can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups and vice versa. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect 'a wall of separation between Church and State.'"--The U.S. Supreme Court, 1947

And, lest we forget:
"They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It’s a lie of the left, and we’re not going to take it anymore."--Pat Robertson, addressing the ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice), 1993

And on the other hand:
"The national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality. Today Christians stand at the head of our country. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit. We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press--in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past years."--Adolph Hitler

No further comment needed, I believe.