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It's not the government's place to fund religious activity.
You know the modern conception we have of 'separation of church and state' is a fairly new political innovation that wasn't historically there. Originally, there was nothing that precluded a state from adopting an official religion, if it wanted to.
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibits government from encouraging or promoting ("establishing") religion in any way. That's why we don't have an official religion of the United States. This means that the government may not give financial support to any religion.
And as I linked to, that’s a modern political conception we have that historically wasn’t there and was wholly unfounded.
Well it is now bub