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According to the first amendment, In the United States of America, the federal government is restricted in building a national church. This is due to the first amendment's recognizing people's freedom's to worship their faith according to their own belief's. For example, the American government has removed the church from their "sphere of authority" due to the churches historical impact on politics and their authority on the public. This was the beginning of the disestablishment process. The protestant churches in the United States had a large impact on American culture, in the nineteenth century, where they organized the establishment of schools, hospitals, orphanages, colleges, magazines etc. . This has brought up the famous, however, misinterpreted term of the separation of church and state. These churches lost the legislative and financial support from the state and lost.

The disestablishment process
The first disestablishment began with the introduction of the bill of rights. In the twentieth century, due to the great depression of the 1930's and the completion of the second world war, the American churches were revived. Specifically the protestant churches. This was the beginning of the second disestablishment were churches had become popular again but held no legislative power. One of the main reasons why the churches gained attendance and popularity was due to the baby boom. Where soldiers came back from the second world war and started their families. The large influx of newborns gave the churches a new wave of followers. However, these followers did not hold the same beliefs as their parents and brought upon the political, and religious revolutions of the 1960's.

During the 1960's the collapse of religious and cultural middle brought upon the third disestablishment. Religion became important to the individual and less likely the community. The changes brought upon from these revolutions significantly increased the personal autonomy of individuals due to the lack of structural restraints giving their added freedom of choice. This concept is known as "new voluntarism" where individuals have free choice on how to be religious and the free choice whether to be religious or not.

Sartre brings upon the notion of the Cartesian god being totally free and autonomous. He states that existence precedes essence with god being the creator of the essences, eternal truths and divine will. This pure freedom of god relates to human freedom and autonomy; where a human is not subjected to pre existing ideas and values.