Joe Sobran, writing some time ago but still sounding current today:
"Liberal diatribes against “McCarthyism” leave out the crucial fact that American Christians felt deeply betrayed by the outcome of World War II, when our “Soviet ally” won control of a huge section of Christian Europe, just as Pius XII had feared it would. The war began when the Soviets and Germans had invaded Catholic Poland; it ended with Roosevelt’s turning Poland over to “Uncle Joe” Stalin’s tender mercies. It took the leadership of a Polish Pope, John Paul II, to win back Poland’s freedom.
Yet the young pass through our entire educational system without being taught what the Christian perspective was, and is, or how it has shaped the great events of history. Few of them know that many of the authors of the Constitution were clergymen; fewer still realize that the separation of church and state applied only to the federal government, not to the states. (The First Amendment says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” leaving the states free to do so.)
Like Soviet history, American history has been rewritten, with inconvenient facts deleted. In both countries, the “progressive” forces have subverted their subjects’ sense of the past. "
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You make an excellent point, and one I have long sought to explore. People grow up today thining that there has always been a wall between church and state, not realizing that we have had secularism foisted upon us only in the last half century by an activist Supreme Court - and the leftist writers of many of our history texts taught in school.
If you have not read, there is an excellent speech on this topic made by the brother of William Buckley. You might find it of interest. http://wolfhowling.blogspot.com/2009/05/religion-constitution-judicial-activism.html
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