How Christ-saturated should the government of the US be, and why?

Question

Thanks!

Answer 1

None. Separation of church and state.

Answer 2

Well, if we believe the Consititution, then it should be 0%.

However, let's look at the laws. How many of them are morality-based? How many of them impose the morality of a majority on others?

Now, let's consider if all of the morality-based laws repealed. We wouldn't have any laws against theft, murder, child molestation or rape.

But... we also wouldn't have to rehash Roe v. Wade every decade, gay marriage wouldn't even be questioned, and we would fight AIDS with education and free condoms as opposed to lectures about faithfulness and abstinance. Women would be equal without question.

Basically, there HAS to be some morality-based law. To suggest otherwise would be asking for total anarchy (and while I thought that would be cool as a teen, now that I have kids I'm not so sure I like the idea).

The problem is, the line is so blurry because people who are raised in the Christian faith are taught to impose their beliefs on others, but I don't have any answers on drawing that line.

Answer 3

It would be nice if it was saturated with some of the moral teachings Jesus taught, but not at all saturated by the dogmatic religion Paul turned Christianity into..

ps Morning boss.

Answer 4

It shouldn't be Christ-saturated at all, any more than it should be Allah-saturated or Vishnu-saturated or infused with any relgion at all. God is not mentioned once in the U.S. Constitution and Jefferson and many of his colleagues were not convinced of the divinity of Christ.
And, Ross, while people may have come to America to "relocate" their churches, the United States was founded without an official religion.

Answer 5

The strange thing about saturation is that once an object has sucked in as much of something as it can handle, it'll start spewing it out again.

When I look at the GWB administration, I see a lot of people spewing out Jesus's name. That gets me thinking we're at saturation point.

For me, I'm inclined to view elected governments not as theocratic sponges but as theocratic stones. Toss a stone in the water and it won't suck up anything.

But maybe that's just me...

Answer 6

Not at all.

Why do people claim our government is based on the Ten Commandments? Have they actually READ the Ten Commandments? Only two of them are mentioned in our law at all: thou shalt not steal, and thou shalt not kill, and those are UNIVERSAL laws that arose in ALL civilizations.

Want a perfect example of what happens when government is run according to a holy book? The Middle East.

Answer 7

I don't believe that religion has a place in the US government. Seeing how this country was founded on the belief of freedom of religion. Therefore if Christ is involved in government it hinders my religious beliefs and forces another persons beliefs on me.

Answer 8

Neutrality towards state-sponsored religion was the ideal of the founders, which came from their hatred of the Church of England and other tax-supported church organs. A person of faith is certainly not to be excluded (actually they preferred he be at least a deist) from public life or office, though. I think we have a paucity of Christians in political office, although the faith of GWB is pretty well-known, which I do not necessarily agree with, but it is his right to hold.

Answer 9

Absolutely none. Other religions and spiritual groups also flourish in America, and since nobody wants to have another person's religion crammed in their face, then the answer is "zero". How would it be if Buddhists wanted the same rights, for example?

Answer 10

0%

Any more than that is a violation of the separation of church and state.

Let me ask you how saturated should the government be with Allah? Zeus? Quetzalcoatl? Odin? Aphrodite?

Answer 11

Not at all. The last time we mixed politics and religion people got burned at the stake. There's a reason for the First Amendment, and the separation of church and state.