Why religion must not separate from the state (government)?

Answer 1

Wow - Constitutional misconceptions abound!!!

The Constitution reads as follows:
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

This gives us the right to practice any and all religion without fear of prosecution by the government, as long as these religions are peaceably assembled and not harming people or trying to bring down the US Government.

This basically means that there won't be a national religion in the united states, it doesn't mean that politicians views can't be influenced by their religion.

Answer 2

No. Religion MUST be separated from the state, because people in occidental countries are not and cannot be forced to join a religion. So the state should treat all of us equally. It cannot be guided by religious principles.

Answer 3

Who's religion? you can not legislate faith and beliefs, these are personal. and we do have freedom of religion so why should I have to live by the principles of a religion I do not follow or agree with. Laws are supposed to benefit and protect all of mankind, and equally, not a few who believe in the particular religion. A prime example of mixing of church and state. The inquisition, burning times, Salem witch trials, Nazis, and how about the middle east, these do not make a good argument for no separation

Answer 4

It should separate. Look at all the garbage happening in the states simply because the government is being taken over by fundamentalist Christians. They are actually considering taking evolution out of thescience taught in schools and replacing it with the bible version of how the world got here in some states.

Answer 5

The U.S. was set up on Christian principles.
Our money says "In God we Trust"
Congress has a Chaplin.
Most state constitutions have statements about looking to God for guidance.
The U.S. Supreme Court use to say that our government could not and should not be separated from the Christian God (they started their own concept of law regarding this back in the 1950's. The first case of separation of church and state was heard in the 1830's. The justices made a list of 83 precedents upholding that our country and government is based on God's law and supported by Him. In the 1950's cases they could not come up with any precedents - not even the 1830's case - they just decided to make a new law them selves, which is illegal, the congress is to make the laws).

Answer 6

Religion should remain separate from the state as that was the intention of the writers of the constitution and the first amendment. That is a huge part of what our nation is founded on and I love it.

Answer 7

personally think about examples here. there are goverments that the religion is the rule of goverment. these countries are isreal, jordan, iran, iraq, saudi arabia, lebanon. etc. now which countries are the worlds hotspots for war famine and misery? isreal, jordan, iraq, iran, lebanon. now saudi arabia stands above this? how is that? well king faud is very shrewd. he is george w bushs best friend. he also controls mecca. which is the end all be all rule of islam. oh i suppose i forgot afgahistan. but well i thought it would be a little overkill. when you put religious nuts like pat robertson, and all these idiot tv evangelist in charge. women go back to losing their rights, we get no freedom, laws pertaining to the upkeep of sheep stupidity, such as laws insisting church once a week, stores and busnisess must close on sunday, prayer times must be enforced etc. just like isreal, jordan, saudi arabia (where women are soo beneath animals they must be covered by black tarps) iran, iraq, lebanon etc.
so really our forefathers were pretty smart to allow freedom for all religions, keep any religion out of goverment. now what about the dollar that says in god we trust? well look it up the money and the federal reserve system in charge of money IS NOT A GOVERMENT AGENCY, it is owned and operated by the world bank (a rockefellar owns this bank go figure) anyway im digressing. think about it though if a fanatical priest were in charge (like saddam hussien, osama bin laden, or any other religious nut you can imagine) what would happen to our freedoms? yep out the window they go.
hope this helps
mournyngwolf
solitary practitioner of wicca and wizardry
and still fighting for our freedoms and rights (in 1990-91 i was sent in the army to saudi arabia for desert storm) to fight for our oil freedom

Answer 8

No, religion and government mus always and forever remain adamantly separated. The only bridge between them should be ethics, and with the understanding that ethics is its own field that does not come from religion or government.

Answer 9

Religion must separate so that no one religion is allowed to persecute others or have privileges not given to all religions. God allows us freewill, who is a government to take that away?

Answer 10

Umm... But it should. A lot. It's either that or try to include all religions. Otherwise there is no impartiality or fairness in our government, because some people are given privledges that others aren't.