what do you think of seperation of God and state?

Question

I am not saying seperation of church and state i mean seperation of God and state.what i mean is that the country stop being ruled by laws that come straight from the mouth of God such as no stealing,murdering,raping,no gay marriage.stuff like that.

I think the country would be a whole lot worse than it is now.This country was founded on biblical principals,they were our cornerstone.and piece by piece we are slowly chipping away from that cornerstone.If we allow such destruction we could end up no better than a communist country.Let's allow God to govern our country once again.

Answer 1

When God and prayer was taken out of the scholls killings and shootings escalated.

When God and prayer is taken out of government then chaos escalates.

Answer 2

I'm sorry, but you are the sort of person our founding fathers created the constitution to defend us AGAINST. I gave up Christianity long ago, and I'm a much better person than most Christians I know. I have a moral code that doesn't depend on a simplistic system of rewards and punishments. You guys think you have some kind of monopoly on good behavior, but then you imply that the only reason you're not out there murdering and stealing (which our current Christian president does anyway) is because you're hoping for a reward in heaven! That's pretty sad.

Addendum: Oh, Cassandra! How very sad that you think that in our country, if most people do a thing, then EVERYONE should do it! Our American ideals are that the weak should be protected from the strong. That means, in modern America, that followers of religions like Islam and Buddhism should be PROTECTED FROM--not TYRANNIZED BY--Christians.

Answer 3

Yeah, because no one ever thought that stealing, killing, raping were wrong before your god came along.

Here's why we don't need your god's laws. If it hurts someone, then it's wrong. Don't do it. That's why we have laws against killing and raping and stealing. Gay marriage doens't hurt anyone, which is why it's hard to pass laws against it.

Keep in mind that while non-religious people make up about 10% of the American population, they only make up about 0.1% of the population in jail. We don't follow the laws of your god, just the laws of the country, that aren't based on the commandments (some of them are the same, but some contridict), and we're better off for it, apparently.

Edit: Hey Troll, want to back that up with some statistics? I thought not, since school violence has actually gone DOWN quite a bit since the 80's - about the time we took prayer out of the schools. See a correlation now? Yeah, I thought not.

Answer 4

You can talk about "being ruled by laws that come straight from the mouth of God" but there's no agreement about what God says. You believe you know what God says, but so do a lot of other people. America wasn't founded as a theocracy where one man could impose his ideas about God on everyone else. Nor was it founded as a place where the majority could impose its beliefs on the minority. It was founded as a place where people would be free to formulate their own ideas about God. Personally speaking, I'm no atheist, but if freedom is contingent on a "separation of God and state" then I'm for it.

Answer 5

They said that the 10 commandments are all over in the White house. They were all over at the court house.
Do you know what they say? Don't lie, steal, commit adultery and honor your parents.
the man who fought so hard to keep the monument at the court house was caught embezzling funds from the country treasurer.
He had used lies, extortion and was on his 4 th marriage. They others divorced him on grounds of infidelity. His mother had been in a nursing home for 3 years he visited her twice. Once when he put her in there and once when it came out in the paper he was a hypocrite. We have men in office who sanction war that kills people. They lie, steal, take bribes and are hardly towers of virtue. So having God's laws does not make people obey them. We have those laws on the books now. Do you see anyone you know who obeys them?

Answer 6

I think its ok to a certain extent. Taking God out of the Pledge of Alelgence is totally uncalled for. The ten comandment were also removed from our local court house. This is not nessasary! We all need God in our lives!

Answer 7

This question is a prime example of the religion / government problem. Whose god are we talking about here? The Christian god never said anything opposing gay marriage - Christain churches have been performing gay marriages for over 15 centuries. Whose god are you saying that you want to take over the government?

And what about 'thou shalt not kill' - does that mean that we should dismantle the military? Is war considered satanic?

If one group's religion is considered to be the only source of law and morality, there will be no freedom for people with other religious views. I sure don't want to see that happen. Please stop trying to impose your view of god onto me!

Answer 8

Thats funny, i just asked a question about a paper I wrote last year titled 'Removing Religion from schools is unconstitutional'. Obviously by that you can see where I stand. I could go on and on about the various things but i will only mantion a few. Christmas, celebrated by nearly all Americans, but yet the whole thing with Christ and schools. Also children are aloud to talk about drugs, sex, etc. in school, but get in trouble by mentioning God. So many more things I could say but I dont wanna write more.

Answer 9

your question is disingenuous.

our laws come from commonly accepted civil issues: murder and rape are harms committed by one person against another without regard as to wether there is or isn't a god.

These are not "god's laws," god has never introduced one bill before any legislature. they are laws common to all civilizations.

maybe you don't rape and murder because you fear a god; the rest of us obey these laws because it's the right thing to do (and hopefully because we are not inclined to do so).

the country was not founded on biblical principles; it was founded on principles that emerged from the Enlightenment - a transecendant, not a literal god. It also learned from the mistakes of Salem and Europe.

god has never governed out country.

Answer 10

ow my head, have you not been in history class? Our presidents clearly said separation of church and state. Without this separation church would become too strong and corrupt.
This kinda thing happens all too often, and America founded on those beliefs? What? MORALS DID NOT COME FROM RELIGION. Morals were made by man they were implemented into religion. Why do you think most people have the same morals in various different religions?