Christians?WHY?

Question

Why are you so annoying?
Let's look at this link first.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070518/ap_on_re_us/statehouse_prayers
When are you gonna understand the term:"separation of the state and the church"????It means government and religious institutions are to be kept independent and separate of one another.
What's so hard to understand?????

Do you people even understand when someone asks a logical question?
So far i got a lot of whiny ,angry answers from people who didn't get it.

As far as the communist comment you need to wake up and realize what year we're in :2007.We're not in the fifties.The cold war era has gone by for quite a long time now.

Answer 1

Seems like the church is worse than the mob. They just move in and take over. They won't be happy until this country is set back to the middle ages. That's the main reason we left England, to escape the church cramming it's dogma down every body's throats. If you don't learn from history, you're bound to repeat it.

Answer 2

When will you clowns actually read the constitution and stop getting your talking points from the web

US Constitution Ammendment 1

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.

Do you see separation of church and state in there. Your talking a completely wrong document. Separation of church and state was something Jackson put into the federalist papers which are not part of the US Constitution.

And you morons say we don't read anything but our bibles?

You don't read anything but your liberal blogs to get your new attack lines.

Grow up. Get a life. Read something besides your communist propaganda.

Did your IQ just drop again? Seems so. Communism isn't dead Its alive and well in the democratic party as well as China.

Answer 3

I have a little task for you to perform. Look at the Founding Fathers. Look at the time that they were forming the government in the 'colonies'. Then look at the times of the Presecutions of the Inquisitions of Europe. And then look at the times of the atrocities of the Anglican Church. Note all the times they took place.

Do you really think that they meant what you mean by separation of church and state? Thomas Jefferson in particular, since he was the one who wrote that letter using those words to a group of Baptist ministers?

What's so hard to understand?

Answer 4

technically, all the constitution says is that congress can't regulate religion nor forbid anyone from practicing religion. it doesn't say that church and state need to be separated. which i personally find highly ironic. i grew up in a country where 98% of the people belong to the same religion, and yet church and state ARE completely separate things. priests may preach about political issues from their pulpit, but most wouldn't think of it, and what they have to say holds no sway over the legal system and most people (even the most devout believers) resent being preached to about something that is not the church's business.
there are two things we take very seriously... one is "to ceasar what is of caesar, to god what is of god" (i just translated that literally, i don't know what the actual phrase is in the english bible). suprisingly enough, we figure ruling the country is caesar's business. god's business is saving souls. totally different department.
the other is that the church does not concern itself with the things of this world. the church is about getting you safely to the next world - teaching the religion, absolving from sins and masses and offerings for a new roof. if a person asks advice from the priest, the priest will comment, but its my experience that the priest preaches about god, and lets the one being preached to make his or her own connections.

i find it ironic because in my country, where the two could be involved with very little trouble, they're not. in the US, where there are so many different religions and religion is such a controversial topic, it seems to me that it would be confusing. which religion do you listen to? do you take polls and go with the one with the most followers? do you pick and chose depending on the issue? yet it seems to work for you, most of the time. i suppose it's because you vote on so many things. all we get to vote on is who is going to represent us and make pretty much all those decisions on our behalf. we're not helpless, and we have ways to get decisions we don't like reversed, but we figure making decisions is what we elect politicians for.

then again, we went through the holy inquisition, and we know religion can take on a life of its own when it has that kind of power. the US didn't go through that - can't go through that, because times are very different now - and, so far, i can't say religion has guided you terribly wrong. wrong, sometimes, maybe, but not terribly wrong.
so different ways work for different folks. try not to take it so hard.

Answer 5

Actually, it means that a state can not name a certain religion the official religion of that said state or the government can not name a certain religion the official religion of the United States.

It doesn't mean you can't pray in public or say "under God" in the pledge or have the Ten Commandments on a public building.

So I ask when will you understand? Why am I not surprised that it was two Democrats that are whinning about this. If anything they are the ones that are annoying.

Answer 6

Tell Abe Lincoln that. Read some of Lincoln's works. I know you won't read them but you would learn something if you did. Read what Lincoln (who most feel was our best President) had to say about God. Did you know that the first congress/es took breaks from sessions to go to Church? These are the same people that WROTE the Declaration of Independence and are founding fathers of this country. See how they felt and what they did.

Answer 7

And this annoys you why?? Face it... most Christians don't complain about you non-believers' incessant whining about us declaring our faith in God... okay some of us do, but that's mostly to get a rise out of you guys... besides most people look pretty funny red-faced and screaming out at nothing. But I digress.. If you don't like it... don't listen.... plug in an ipod or something, until prayer time's over.

Answer 8

ok....i have spent the last few minutes posting about how rude another poster is for asking questions attacking atheists, because he cannot understand other views. you are the same as him, but on the other side. you are grouping all christians together. most christian people i know are good natured and kind. it is the few people that are in the media that polarize debates like this. if you stop thinking pat robertson is the definition of christian beliefs, then you might notcie that everyone is a lot nicer than you think.

Answer 9

Look back in history and see who wrote that. Christian men. Why? So the government couldn't stop us from whorshipping the one true God. Of course over the years the liberals of this country have twisted and perverted it's true meaning.

Answer 10

Show me that phrase(that you can't even quote right) in the Constitution. You have no clue what you are talking about, take a civics class.