Is a secular society best for our country?

Answer 1

Yes. And perhaps making the use of religion in political campaigning illegal would serve a great common good.

It shouldn't matter to anyone what a politician professes to be his spiritual opinion; it is as empty a thing as a political promise. In fact, it should be a pretty big tip-off that the politician deals in malarky if they make too great a show of it.

But I take the meaning of the previous poster. I am talking about government. A secular society is something that cannot arise when so many people are attached to religion. They just need to be convinced that it has no place in the political dialog.

In my opinion.

Answer 2

We see throughout history that when the church and secular governments are combined there are problems. Even during the Middle Ages when someone committed a crime in the eyes of the church it was the secular authorities that did the burning at the stake etc. In a totalitarian state or Communist state the State is the religion and sometimes the leader is a god or next best thing. Whenever church and state are kept separate does either flurish un molseted by the other.

Answer 3

"the burden of people who're offended via others' religions"? i'm sorry yet supply me a smash. This united states (the U. S., not the land) replaced into based on the promise of the liberty TO prepare faith, not the coverage of an atheistic society. our college structures (with very few exceptions) is secular, until eventually now non secular trip journeys are secular, and a lot of community existence is secular--what extra do you opt for? Albania replaced into an Atheist State, and it did not get them very a techniques. the version between the U. S. and Sweden is that Sweden has a Church of Sweden (i think like Anglicanism). mutually as lots of the anybody is "not non secular," that doesn't advise the comparable group is atheist. They do rally around faith in cases of disaster and organic mess ups. Edit: You do understand that the definition of a Utopia is a few thing that could not exist? Many Muslim immigrants come to the U. S. for financial possibilities, yet they could desire to take the "undesirable" (i think for them) with the coolest. Many reasonable Muslims savour that Christians are additionally monotheists and have no subject dwelling in a "Christian" united states. Do you fairly talk for them?

Answer 4

A secular government certainly is. The Founding Fathers were well aware of the religious wars (between Protestant and Catholic) that had devastated European religion for three centuries. They wanted to avoid that happening again.

Individuals can be as religious as they like, and that's usually a great thing. The problem only comes when they try to force that religion on others.

Answer 5

Yes, with so many different religious groups in the US, it's important to remain without a national religion. Seperation of church and state protects the government from religion and more importantly, protects religion from the government. Many Christians who claim we are a "Christian nation" or who want Christianity to become our national religion forget or ignore the history of Christianity. Jesus was killed because of the Roman empire. Then emperor Constantine saw that even after Jesus had died, the number of Christians was growing. So rather than face them and try to defeat the spread of Christianity, Constantine made it the national religion of Rome and then used it for his own purposes. Mostly to stay in power. Christianity was twisted and used for political purposes then just as the Republicans are using it now. It will only happen if you let it!

Answer 6

Well, if you look back to the time when America was a great country it was secular.

Answer 7

No. Many people - probably most people - deal better with the challenges of life, and the moral challenges of being human, when they have something to have Faith in. For most of them, that something is a divine or spiritual thing outside of mundane experience - typically a religion.


Some of us can be functional human beings without Faith. Some of us have no choice but to try. But, I'd guess that the vast majority of people have both the capacity and the need for it.

Answer 8

Yes! We have many religious groups and the current attitude of the country is to be tolerant of them (at least in theory). It's not fair to pick one to be the official, or better religion of this country.

Answer 9

Yes. Freedom both of AND from religion is best. Equal opportunities for worship and non-worship. Equal opportunities to blaspheme and to be blasphemed.

Answer 10

No.

A secular government is, however.

But most Christians aren't capable of separating them.

So, instead of just ruining the message of Christ, they also have to ruin my government.