Cal Thomas, in his excellent Nov. 7 column on the editorial page, asks in the headline, “Just what is wrong with the way things are in the U.S.?”

His column contained some excellent answers.

I would like to add one simple statement to that as my answer to that question: The insidious interpretation of the doctrine of separation of church and state is basically what is wrong in the U.S. It would make about as much sense to try to separate the soul from the body in an individual as to separate church from state in a nation.

Everyone knows that there is strength in unity. There is no strength or success in separation, whether it be strands of rope, married couples, or Laurel and Hardy, except for a very few things, such as joined identical twins or the tares from the wheat, or the fat from the meat.

Ambrose J. Flynn, Oxford