Do you feel the seperation of church and state has gone to the very extreme? Or do we need more of it?

Answer 1

It is way out of hand in the wrong direction.

Answer 2

Depends on who you ask...I sit back as an observer and see the church side where they are not allowed to do any pushing for political issues or prayer in schools (which just says no required prayer by the way) and have a lot of people say that is good because they are tax exempt....good point....the other side if they are not allowed anything they can get pushed aside and the laws set that totally do away with practices important to them....

Separation of Church and state also needs to include for lack of a better way of describing it regulations on the atheist view also...they push so hard for things that it is their religion even though they do not call it that.....

Touch issue....may need to be better defined as to what Church is (is it belief which includes more than just Christian, Buddhist, to include atheist because that deals with church related issues also. Christians are people with rights also.....the atheist view that they do not push their view as expressed on here is false as it is pressed in the media and in government all the time....)

Answer 3

Depends these days what people mean by the church, or even if most know. The true church (the body of Christ) are I feel directed by scripture, knowing God places whom He pleases in places of authority. Its Gods purpose and plan and by no means will there be by man any dot or tittle of it changed.

There never should be anything that the state controls in the True Church's effect - if either in the salvation message, or the Christians say of our government. After all, aren't we all tax paying people with the right to vote? With little study, one would find the christian to be one of the most willing fighters of our freedoms and this country.

Answer 4

The separation of church and state was,and still is misinterpreted.The separation of church and state means the United States will not set a state church,meaning their not going to say you have to be christian,or you have to be catholic,or you have to be pagan,or whatever.They said we can worship as we please,but as always,the men and women of this country screwed it up.The separation of church and state by definition has nothing to do with not being able to pray at school or preach out in the open.Society has perverted the true meaning of separation of church and state.

Answer 5

Well the founding fathers were agnostic and masons, with the exception of George Washington and John Adams being your most devout Christians of the bunch, but still masons none the less.

Keeping it separate allows people to worship their God the way they want to, without any one group saying our religion is the only way and yours is the wrong way.

Today, it is being blurred by the politicians on both sides. By using faith in their personal quest to further their political careers.
They fool the public in thinking they will be able to do something one way or the other due to their religious piety.

Keep it separate. We don't need more, and we don't need less, we need the Govt. out of peoples houses of worship.

Answer 6

Unfortunately, some of the politially correct implementation is giving radical christians ammunition. But their agenda is religion in schools - as long as it's their flavor of christianity. PUBLIC schools should be secular - not endorsing or specifically teaching any given religion or requiring observance in any way - such as prayer at assemblies or games or for the teams or in classrooms.

Teaching classes that teach about religions in general, such as religions of the world or a review of religious beliefs or in a philosophical context should be acceptable as long as they are held to the above standards.

Observances of holidays should be equal - if T-day and xmas, include halloween, ramadan, hanukkah, tet, etc. for all. Might lead to understanding one another!

Students have the right to pray or observe their religious rites now as long as it does not disrupt the educational experience for others or create an atmosphere of intimidation or coersion for other students.

Answer 7

The church and the state need to get as far away from each other as possible.

Answer 8

The reason it has gone so extreme is because some people in mainstream religions have this idea that religion should be in our gov't. Yet, they only want their religion in the gov't, not anyone elses. These are the people that view our Freedoms, Freedom of Religion and Speech, as only valid for themselves and not anyone else. If people started viewing each others as equal here, we probably wouldn't be so extreme about things like this. But as it stands and people continue to try to push their personal religion over everyone else's, then I continue to push to make it completely secular. I'm willing to go without my religion in the public eye to see that no one else's gets the top shelf. If you can't treat me as equal, I won't treat you as equal either. *smile*

Answer 9

No, I don't think the separation has gone far enough. We need more separation.

In fact, we should make every politician from the president to the congressman renounce their religion before they take office. In effect become atheists while serving the nation. OR they can step down.

Answer 10

either we include all of the "churches" in decisions made for government or none at all. So yes we need a stringent seperation of church and state.

Answer 11

It has gotten completely out of control. When we have a president who says he "talks" to God, and then starts wars, lies and cheats...I would say we need more separation of church and state. As in absolutely no religion in politics.