The separation has been taken out of context. Kids not saying “under God” in the pledge and some of that other nonsense is ridiculous. The point was to prevent tyranny through a state sponsored, or state-mandated religion, such as the founders had experienced in Britain, where people who refused to conform, were persecuted, perhaps prosecuted too. We are far from having that in America.
Along the same lines, we should have separation of education and state…but it’s not going to be easy to turn that ship around. We just have to wait for it to hit an iceberg and sink, which is looking like a prime possibility with the Federal Dept of Education at the helm.