More Walls than One

You may have come across Steve Kellmeyer's piece about the misguided notion of a strict separation between church and state — as opposed to other potential walls — but if you haven't read it, it's worth your time:

Why did Jefferson think this wall of separation was needed? Because the American Revolution happened two hundred years too soon. Thomas Jefferson was a well-read man, but he was completely ignorant of evolutionary theory. How could he be otherwise? It wouldn’t be invented for another fifty years. He knew Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, but knew not a thing of what Marx would write twenty years after Jefferson died. Besides, Jefferson was the man who re-wrote the Gospels by taking out all references to miracles. He didn't believe in them, you see. He thought Jesus was a nice moral teacher, but not God. C.S. Lewis was not yet a gleam in his father's eye, so Jefferson was unaware of the Liar, Lunatic, Lord argument, and he wasn't smart enough to figure it out for himself.