Please define separation of the states and the church?

Question

My religion which is just a small religion in my country are being persecuted by it's rival religious group ( bigger and influential than ours ) and our rival religious group use the force of our government leaders by influencing them to persecute us

Answer 1

There is no separation of church and state.

All that is stated in the constitution is that the government should not start an organized religion, or enforce one religion's beliefs. The term "separation of church and state" was made up, and should not be used in any arguments.

However, if your government is persecuting you because of religious beliefs, you have a leg to stand on. Unless, however, your religious beliefs include doing illegal activities. If so, you need to call the ACLU.

Answer 2

In the US Churches and Government are separate entities! You will almost never hear a military recruiter at mass. You will never find weapons stored on church grounds by our government. The Churches are free to compete for practitioners and are free to practice as they desire.
There are times however when the State has been threatened by illegal activities conducted under the protective guise of "Religion" and has taken appropriate actions-Church Koresh comes to mind(The One in Waco).

Compare this now to the other side of the coin-The Iranian Theocracy! Every Mosque is a State Building and everyone is subjected to the Islamic Leader's demands-However benevolent the dictator tries to be!

Answer 3

The belief that religious and state institutions should be separate covers a wide spectrum, ranging between one extreme which would secularize or eliminate the church, and theocracy, in which the government is an affiliate of the church. Some secularists believe that the state should be kept entirely separate from religion, and that the institutions of religion should be entirely free from governmental interference. Churches that exercise their authority completely apart from government endorsement, whose foundations are not in the state, are conventionally called "Free" churches.

Answer 4

The words" Separation of Church and State "are not found in the Constitution. The phrase is in Thomas Jefferson's address to the Danbury Baptists. Liberals have just used this to take Jesus out of the public arena. However, if you read Jefferson's address it becomes apparent that he didn't want the state involved in the church not the other way around. Liberals point to the 1st amendment about the free exercise clause to argue about this, but it seems everyone is tolerated but Christians in public. We don't censor anyone else.

Answer 5

Seperation of church and state is a political idea in which the government (the "state") is completely seperate and uninfluenced by religion, or the dominant religion in the area. It sounds like your country does not have this system in place. The United States is under a seperation of church and state, however, as the majority of citizens are Christians, Christian ideas leak very frequently into politics; it can therefore be argued that church and state aren't truly seperate.

Answer 6

There's nothing in our constitution that says "seperation of church and state".

Here's what it says:
"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."

Nope nothing about seperation there. In fact it says clearly that the government cannot make a law prohibiting the free exersize of any religion.

Answer 7

The state should not sponsor a specific religion, i.e. the Church of England.

Libs have gone WAY over board and destroyed the entire concept of religion in the public forum.

Answer 8

to prevent the leaders of a new nation (ours) from establishing a national religion like the English did (church of england) and was part of the reason the founding fathers split from the old country the fathers wrote into the new lands laws a clause prohibiting this,calling it Seperation of Church and State....ex: can you imagine a country full of 12-19 year olds who have been taught from birth its ok and glorious to die for their god?...No?..try any country in the middle east....

Answer 9

not in the same building