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>Separation of Church and State has been disastrous.

Separation of Church and state is clearly implied by the words of Christ -- Give to Caesar what is Caesar, and to God what is God's.

The Church itself drove its separation from the state during the 12th and 13th centuries, in what has been called the Papal Revolution or the Investiture Controversy, "which liberated the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church from control by emperors, kings, and feudal lords, and resulted in the creation of the first modern Western legal system." See Harold Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition

>https://www.amazon.com/Law-Revolution-Formation-Western-Tradition-dp-0674517768/dp/0674517768

Which is not to say that there should be a "wall of separation" as Jefferson posited (in private correspondence).

Along these lines, for example, according to Berman:
>Christianity supported the German legal institutions of ordeal and compurgation by reinforcing the Germanic concept of divine immanence that underlay them. It was presupposed both by Germanic religion and the Christianity which initially replaced it that supernatural powers were immanent within the natural sphere...It was only when the church shifted its emphasis to a transcendent God, who inspires man to imitate him, that ordeals, oath helpers, duels, and trial by champions gave way to a `rational' procedure for finding truth by questioning witnesses.
(p. 64)

It's a complex subject. Some further, highly detailed, interesting thoughts here:
>http://theradicalcatholic.blogspot.com/2016/06/catholic-church-and-christian-state-pt-1.html