Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life and Liberty Minute. The most mangled phrase in the history of mangled phrases is “a wall of separation of church and state.” It is not even found in the Constitution. It’s from a letter of Thomas Jefferson’s, and the Supreme Court dragged it out of that letter in 1947 and inserted it into its jurisprudence. But what Jefferson meant is that the Constitution erects a high and impregnable wall that protects the church from the interference and control of the state, not a wall that insulates the state from the influence of the church. The Founders believed Christianity was an inseparable part of American society and were eager to protect its freedom to influence all of American life. America was founded as a Christian nation, and America will only be what it is supposed to be if Christianity is allowed to run free again.