>>Nothing is black and while. There is no doubt that the seperation of church and state in europe is interpretated a lot different than in the US. If there is a 100% seperation between church and state there won't be any mention of God in your government and religion was purely kept private.

>America was founded by generally very religious people, therefore the mention of God. However, the founding fathers wanted to avoid the oppression of a state-mandated religion, and it is clearly spelled out in the First Amendment.

>>Now sure this is impossible as much of the difference of political parties in europe do have to do with religion. However in the US, twenty years ago, God was a democrat, now he became a republican by an excessive number of religious statements during election time.

>That's one of the silliest things you've ever written.

It was a tongue in cheek comment, but it holds some truth. Twenty years ago God was used for political goals by the democrats. Now it seems the republicans seem to have a subscription on Gods advice.

This is a big difference between europe and the US. In europe a lot of political parties (e.g. christen democrats) to do have cristian background. However in their day to day policy you won't find that in discussions, statements. Now for america neither the democrats nor republicans are founded on religional aspects, but they both (have)(mis)use(d) religional statement to force their point through.

Walter,