Wall of Separation

Getting this from Dan Barker's book, "Losing Faith in Faith" page 304.

In 1947 (Everson v. Board of Education), they wrote:
Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pas laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force or influence a person to go to or remain away from church against his will or force him to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion. No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or nonattendance. Not tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups, and vice versa. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect 'a wall of separation between Church and State.'

page 310
And speaking of "Christian Nations" of which most Scandinavian countries are OFFICIALLY:
In 1536 Christian III, who had met Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, marched into Copenhagen and expelled the Catholics, appropriating the Roman wealth to pay off huge war debts, establishing Protestantism as the new faith of the area, not by any true religious revival, but by edict. (It is only fair that the Catholic wealth was confiscated for military purposes. After all, if the state and the church are allied, then can't religious donations be considered a governmental tax?) Since the middle of the sixteenth century, Scandinavia has been a stronghold of Lutheranism.

Much of Dan Barker's book is a compilation of "nontracts" and letters to the editor published under the auspices of the Freedom From Religion Foundation Also, since the author is a former fundamentalist minister, much of the book reviews bible verses often quoted by evangelists, and explores the actual context and historical meaning of the verses. He also reviews a surprising number of items often quoted that aren't actually in the bible.