It is precisely because secularists do understand the power of religion, and the possibility that any intensely felt drive for righteousness may overwhelm dissenters in its path, that they insist on the fundamental importance of separation between church and state.

— Susan Jacoby Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (2004)

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