ABSTRACT
This book examines the European influences upon the founders of the United States and the eventual, unique arrangement separating civil authority from religion. The serpentine wall separating church and state was part of the total political package of a liberal democracy that maximized individual liberties and minimized governmental power over and interference with individuals. The book clears that Thomas Jefferson was both the most influential architect of the serpentine wall separating church and state and the most vocal critic of established religion. Civilizations are tied to cultures, and, according to Huntington, one of the "central defining characteristics" of cultures is religion. The anthropic principle is the name given to the description of what many describe as the extremely exacting and extraordinarily "finely-tuned" nature of fundamental physical constants of the universe that allow for its existence and for the existence of carbon-based life.
