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• This Amendment is also used to keep religion from influencing
the government. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in Strength to Love that “the church must be reminded that it
is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the
state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool.”[41] Martin Luther King Jr. understood that
the church had an undeniable influence on the state that is elemental. It
is this influence that the state is trying to demolish so it can function
without moral restraint. According to Stephan Carter, author of God’s Name in Vain, “The separation of church and
state, in its contemporary rendition, represents little more than an effort to
subdue the power of religion, to twist it to the ends preferred by the state.”[42] The government does not want
Christianity to have influence but rather to stay inside the church on Sunday
mornings.