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Why did the Founding Fathers protect religious freedom in the United States? Why did they guarantee its free exercise in the First Amendment ?​

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Our country's founders -- who were of different religious backgrounds themselves -- knew the best way to protect religious liberty was to keep the government out of religion. So they created the First Amendment -- to guarantee the separation of church and state.

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