In the book Story of the Faith, by Wm. Alvin Gifford ,1946 Macmillan Company publishers it is suggested that in 1908 France officially codified separation of Church and State.
A process I believe started with the French Revolution. America today seems more reflective and more embracing of the French in their being turned from God—than we are of our own beginnings as a Christian Nation.
Agree. That turn from God was done through governmental raw force, not the people