This is why the Establishment Clause is so important and why it is so controversial for religious zealots. Without the separation of church and state, not only would religious and nonreligious minorities be openly and widely discriminated against, but our laws and justice system would be based on false premises and fallacious arguments. The disenfranchised would never be able to defend themselves against the ruling authority through logical discourse. The justice system would incorporate 2,000-year-old prejudices into sentencing. Hell, I wouldn’t be here writing this article; I’d be at home, uneducated and the indentured servant of a patriarchal imposed marriage.