church and state are separate, how true?

Answer 1

There is a lot of intermixing of religion and government. Many nations are completely controlled by religion. Others have leaders whose religion influences their leadership. Other leaders have voters that can sway the leaders actions with the power of the vote.

Answer 2

Very true. The church and state are separate in the USA.

Americans are not tried by a Priest, Rabbi, or Minister!

Americans are not jailed for heresy!

Americans have not had a civil 'religious' war!

Americans are not hired and fired based on their religion!

Atheists are not burned at the stake by any Church!

Homosexuals are allowed to get married in some states!

There is no religious segregation in the States!

There is no religous 'tithe' tax in the States!

Priests, Rabbis, Ministers do not have political power!

There are no religious police enforcing religious policy in the USA.

Answer 3

Church and state are seperated in the constitution.

The state is seperated from the church because the state can make no law respecting the establishment of a religion. That means there can be no state religion. That has been interpreted (correctly in my opinion) to also mean that the state can not promote, foster, or engage in the practice of any specific religion. It boils down to the state can not dictate or control religion and the state can't favor one religion over another.

The church is seperated from the state in that there can be no religious test for office. That means that a person's religion can not be used to qualify or disqualify them from office. The effect being, a religion can not control government affairs.

And it works that way in practice. Whenever government offcials defer to or promote their religion while conducting their official duties, they are at risk for rebuke. Whenever the people try to disqualify office seekers because of religion, they fail.

But it does not always work smoothly, and things are not black and white. The line sperating church and state is bit fuzzy and it moves around depending on the context. Our coin and currency declare "in God We trust". Clearly a religious statement from the governemnt, but only a few get upset about it. Recently a high school Valedictorian in Colorado Springs had her diploma withheld because she thanked Jesus in her speech. Clearly overreaching, as the young woman was not acting on behalf of the state in any capacity whatsoever.

Answer 4

Exactly where in the Constitution does it call for the separation of church and state.

Ain't there guys.

Simply mandates that the government not promote a "state religion"

Answer 5

Decidedly Untrue. If you define separation as the two are mutually exclusive than there is no separation. In god we trust, one nation under god, the bush theocracy all show that currently our government is subject to theological. The founders were smart. They sidestepped this issue with their language.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

I think they used very precise language and intentionally avoided specific theocratic language.

Today we do not adhere to that

Answer 6

Not in America
Politicians frequently run on Christian values
Gay marriage ( marriage is church) the legal partnership part is State, but they do not like to separate the two.
Polygamy- illegal, but if they aren't asking for costly benefits of legal partnership ( I mean they are self supporting) then who business is it if the parties involved are ok with it.
Abortion-----I won't even go there

Don't get me wrong I think we need some Christian values in America, I just think the gov't gets too involved with Church issues

Answer 7

Even if they stated they were separated, they both share similar values and will always be connected. What church is connected it subject to change but the values and morals are always the same.

Answer 8

You can create a secular form of government, that is indifferent, hostile, or tolerant of religion-- but you cannot seperate religion from culture. As such, religion will always have some influence in terms of the governance of society. This will be especially true in secular governments that purport to be demoncratic, as people will inevitably elect those who will favor (or are hostile to) the interests of religion.

Answer 9

i guess that in the complete sense, they are technically separate, but here in america, it runs a fine border between the two.

the creators of our government were christian men who couldn't help but add some of their religious beliefs into the structuring of our legal system.

i think, that considering how hard it is for people to discard their religion to accomplish something when it has been bread into you, that the men who made our government did a pretty good job.

all of the battles over "under god" in the pledge and the ten commandments in the courthouse, ect are so overrated. no one doesn't believe in a god of some sort because it is human nature to believe in something so even atheists believe in something, it is just probably idolatry.

Answer 10

They're not separate. In court (state) you still have to swear on a bible. (church)