With the current controversy over loudmouths from the pulpit  like Reverends Hagee and Wright spewing hatred for government and fellow man, is there any wonder that the Founding Fathers erected the separation wall between church and state? For the Fathers knew the power of pulpit over lording ignorant flock to do God’s bidding in consonance with the passion of preachers bereft of reason and that the few intelligent among members would shrug it off without public indignation as though philosophically above it all.