Well, James Madison (father of the Bill or Rights among other aspects of our constitution) disagrees with your disagreement Mr. Buck (R. CO.).

“The civil Government, though bereft of everything like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success, whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State.”

-Madison on the intended result of the 1st Amendment on our republic