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  • Except the US constitution does not include that language. The “a wall of separation between church and state” phrase most notably comes from an 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association. Not a legally binding document by any means.

    I imagine you’re thinking of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution which forbids the US government restricting the free exercise of religion.

    I believe, iirc, the Supreme Court over several decades has affirmed and reaffirmed the overall position that the US government must remain secular and not favor a particular religion. Which is effectively what you’re getting at.










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    7 months ago

    I tried to read Foucault in grad school. His writing is just the worst, like it’s intentionally trying to be difficult to read and understand. When other people describe Foucault’s ideas to me, they seem cool. Wish I could actually understand the original stuff though.

    Maybe I’m just an idiot, I dunno.





  • Man I grew up in the age of forums, and I never got the hang of em. Just felt like the design goals were wasted negative space and the purposeful inability to know who is responding to whom.

    There’s a lot of forum fans, so there must be some appeal, but fuck me if I can ascertain what that might be.

    I never did any IRC, though I wonder if I’d known it at the time if I might’ve gotten into it.