Separation of Church and State is not limited to the US of A

In Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, he wrote that the church and state should remain separate but that it should be allowed that government employees who wish to should be allowed to practice religion, in keeping with the 1st amendment. You could online search T'ville for "church," "state," "clergy" etc, on Google Books. This is not a paper in T'ville. There exists an argument that the Church is nothing but a glorified commune, and that Christianity threatens Democracy in a Communist way. The argument against that is that religion existed in America at the time Democracy was born. In America anyone who wishes to be a Christian may do so, while in Communist China, communes are not only allowed, but enforced (or have been in times past,) but such people who choose to be Christian are not necessarily allowed. Communist countries have always been atheist, and this was the philosophy of Tocqueville's contemporary Marx! Having observed the Great American Experiment for a time, the Chinese may be thought to wish to try it themselves, and the Tiannanmen Square protest of 1989 shows that there are some who would die for this promised liberty. Atheism needs no separation of Church and State, since in it's utopia, Church does not exist. see my previous blog entry http://slashdot.org/~impengo/journal/190558 NOTE: Christian missionaries in Communist countries are accused of beind spies commonly, but do not teach insurrection, and play up passages like Ac 4:32 "... they had all things common." Just as they did not teach insurrection against slavery, but thought badly of menstealers (I Tim 1:10,) they do not teach insurrection against communist governments or democratic ones. Heaven is a Kingdom, but is an abstract, and threatens no earthly government or Christ would have become king as noted in Jno 6:15.