“When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.“
Thomas Jefferson
For decades, Americans have believed that the phrase “separation of church and state” is Biblical. It is not. From the beginning until fairly recently, the interdependence of religion and politics has been assumed in American thought.
As early as 1644, John Cotton promoted “the idea that there was objective, revealed truth of God articulated to a Christian society by the visible, organized church and defended by a civil state (ordained by God) and by godly civil magistrates.”* All arguments against this single, absolute truth fall short of concluding the validity of a “wall of separation.”  Secularists have always declared a separation between church and state to prevent principles they do not agree with to bear on public policy, preferring man’s finite wisdom to God’s infinite truth.
Teach the Children:
1. The Creator of the laws that govern the universe established moral absolutes that allow men to be free, productive, and righteous in their conduct.
2.     A nation to be free is governed by the absolutes of natural and moral law as given by God.Â
”Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.” George Washington’s Farewell Address to the nation in 1796
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8: 31-32
*Driesbach, Daniel L. Â Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State, p 77.