What,s your take on the speration of church/state?

Question

do you have any religious prefrance?

Answer 1

I'm glad church is separated from state

Answer 2

No and I'm all for a separation of church and state. Religion is one belief's in something and those should not be forced upon non-believers. If church were tied to state they could create whatever wacky laws they wanted to based on what the majority of the populace believes in at any given time.

Religion, I believe, should be kept to one's self. While there is a freedom of religion in this country it does not say freedom to force religion onto non-believers. Just look at some of the issues it has caused in countries where religion is the way of the law. While I won't name names there are many countries out there where women have virtually no rights all in the name of religion being part of the law. Religion, in some cases, prevents the advancing of certain areas of civilized society because it is based on old ideals from two millenia ago.

Keeping it separate ensures an open mind in lawmaking that is fair to everyone.

Answer 3

I'm Christian, but I believe in a separation of church and state. For one, I don't want to be persecute just because I'm a Christian living under, say, an Islamic government. Moreover, I believe in letting the atheists alone, so long as they leave us in peace, too. There's no sense in foisting our beliefs on each other - that just creates antagonism.

PS I'd like to clarify that a separation of church and state does NOT entail a complete disavowal of moral values shared by decent people and Christians. To disavow all morally grounded laws for the sake of contrariness is impractical and foolish. For instance, if laws were passed permitting mindless murder, the country would be in anarchy.

Answer 4

That separation does not exist. If it did then there would not bey ANY laws that had a moral impact. NOR would there be any way to interpret ANY law to impact any person that follows any religious belief system what so ever. Unitl people are answerable to ONLY thier religious teaching and NO OTHER authority what so ever, that separation will never exist. Until ALL efforts to regulate morality by legislation cease and all previous efforts are put aside that separation will not even be possible.

As far as my religious preference, I follow Asatru, the worship of the Norse deities.

Answer 5

First, the phrase "seperation of church and state" is found nowhere in the Constituion. It was included in the later writings of President Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association. President Jefferson would be horrified at the way it is being used today.

His view, and the view of the writers of the Constitution, was that the government must be kept from designating any one religion or any one denomination as the national religion.

He did not intend that religous organizations should be prohibited from having influencein or upon the government or it's functions. Indeed, most of the founding fathers recognized that apart from the guidance of God our form of government was doomed to failure.

Answer 6

I think it is bad to a point...I really believe religion should not be excluded from the schools as it has been...Changing of our Pledge and other horrific ideas because of some foreigners that came here to be an American should live like Americans and accept the American way

Answer 7

I means that the government can not say you must attend this church or that one. But that does not mean that individual believers have to hide their faiths publicly. All are free to practice their individual faiths 24/7. And those who profess no faith at all are equally free to not practice.
I, myself have been a Christian for many years

Answer 8

In my opinion religion should not influence governmental decisions in the least. They should respect religion but not use it as a basis for decisions because the government is supposed to represent the people, all the people, and there are many religions.

Answer 9

I think church and state should be completely seperate. You're free to have your beliefs, but do NOT push them on me. If I'm going to 'Hell' fine, that's my problem isn't it?

Quite plainly, the US was built on diversity, and anyone saying "Mine is better than yours" is rude. You believe what you want. If it works for you, great. But not everything works the same for everyone, and people should be free to believe what they want.

Answer 10

The government will neither support nor suppress religion nor any instrumentality of the national or state governments.