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Anthropology Religion and State When the Constitution was derived from our founding fathers for the United States of America, the First Amendment was made to protect citizens from religious persecution. The First Amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . .” (Separation of Church and State) The Supreme Court has found that religion must be separated from our governments and schools completely. America is the great melting pot and there is bound to be conflict over religion were so many different religions are side by side. The connection between God and America go hand and hand and has been so since the beginning. Our founding fathers believed that our rights were derived from god, Richard Kirk writes, “ (even the very non-Christian patriot Thomas Paine) repeatedly asserted --- that our rights derive from God.”(The stupid separation of religion and state) For the government to deny that God does not exist makes our government bias not neutral. On our currency in “god we trust” stands out, placed at the top and centered for everyone to see. Children just recently stopped reciting the Pledge of Allegiance everyday to “on