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In recent blogs, I’ve been concerned with clearing up some common misconceptions relating to areas of interface (sometimes involving significant controversy and conflict) between religion and secular American culture. Having previously discussed why teaching creationism in public school science classes, or posting the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, are both inappropriate and unconstitutional, I…