Lemon Test 1. The government's action must have a legitimate secular purpose. To teach probability 2. The government's action must not have a primary effect of either advancing or inhibiting religion. The primary purpose is to teach students better math skills. 3. The government's action must not result in an "excessive entanglement" of government and religion. The Theory of Biblical Patterns can be taught purely as a set of patterns with no reference to the Holy Bible.