if someone is against it why dont they change it? and what church?
2007-03-21 00:36:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
dumbasses, the founding fathers were members of the church of Deism
2007-03-21 00:45:41 · update #1
It would take a Constitutional Ammendment to do that, you can bet your life some would like to do that; however, thankfully, that takes a LOT of voting and a 2/3 of all the States to ratify the change.
There may be a majority of Fundamentalists in Q&A, but they aren't the majority, or anywhere near in the USA. Same with any one racial group in the US. The US is so diversified that no group can get enough votes to change everything to they way they would have complete power.
2007-03-21 00:47:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Always have to go though the "dumb asses" part, don't we?
The separation of church and state was written in so not to allow the church to dictate to the government as was the case in Europe at the time. If one actually reads the documents George Washington and the others believed that everyone had a religion and so wanted to protect the people from any person that was elected from re-inserting the Pope as the final word. Or any other religious leader. But no one can argue that the founding fathers did not use Christian values and Bible laws to set up the new government.
2007-03-21 08:00:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
US Constitution, Amendment I:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free excercise thereof."
This is pretty damned straightforward, if you ask me. The government is not allowed to have a religion. The people are allowed to have any kind of religion they want. I've never understood why people have so many problems with this.
For the record, there's no such thing as the Church of Deism. Deism is a theological philosophy that posits that the existence of God may be inferred through reason and observation. It is not an organized religion.
Some of the founding fathers were deists (notably, Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, Ethan Allen, and James Madison), but all of them attended Christian churches, regardless of whether they believed in the divinity of Jesus or not.
2007-03-21 08:23:44 · answer #3 · answered by marbledog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no separation of church and state. The constitution guarantees freedom of religion and non-interference from the state. The letter from Jefferson that everyone loves to cite is a response to a pastor who asked if one denomination was going to be designated the Church of the United States. Jefferson's response was that there would be no official denomination as in the Church of England. Attendance to a specific church would not decide whether a person were acceptable in politics or business as in many European countries of the time. The whole "separation of church and state" was legislated from the bench which, by the way, is unconstitutional. Check it out.
2007-03-21 08:01:11 · answer #4 · answered by kaehya2003 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The idea that church and state are separated over there in the USA seems pretty weird to the rest of the world as we watch the tele evangelists every election wearing their republican hats.
Kennedy was controversial for being a Catholic.
Heaven forbid that an atheist might stand a chance.
Believe it or not, in other western countries, atheists do sometimes get voted in. Some parts of the world do have true seperation of the two.
2007-03-21 07:44:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Seperation of Church and state is designed to protect the Church from the State.
Actually, If you really look at it, Seperation of Church and state is a myth, because where do we get our current laws from at least many of them if not from the Bible, because we did found this country of Christian values and the Bible.
2007-03-21 07:42:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know what kind of education most of you got, but if you had been taught by someone who actually knew the US Constitution and the founding of these United States you'd know that it was--and presumably still is--based on a cat named John Locke and his ideas about the rights of man. Never heard of any of this? You should sue your school for malfeasance.
We wouldn't need this debate if people would realize one truth: There is no god.
2007-03-21 11:04:24 · answer #7 · answered by tartu2222 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the seperation from the church from the state it to protect the state from stone age rules from an out dated religion that has been destroy billions of lives for 2000yrs
2007-03-21 08:07:40 · answer #8 · answered by andrew w 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Unfortunately there are people trying to change it. I think there are people who would like to name the US Jesusland.
2007-03-21 07:41:39 · answer #9 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋