i need this for a debate for school, please give me honest answers
2007-09-17 07:09:45 · 9 answers · asked by ? 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I have done research and i'm looking for original answers. There's no need to be condescending
2007-09-17 07:26:24 · update #1
Think it out. Who's religion are you going to attach to the government? What religions are going to be abolished? Are you going to require everyone to observe that religion's holidays, customs, beliefs?
2007-09-17 07:16:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
This part of the First Amendment was written in because the Founding Fathers remembered what happened when King Henry VIII established the Church of England and basically forced everyone to recognize that one church as THE church. Those who tried to worship independently were arrested and imprisoned. They also took a page from the Spanish Inquisition where non-believers were rounded up, imprisoned, and tortured if they refused to confess their heretical ways and embrace the Catholic Church. BOTTOM LINE: If church and state are unified, the church now has a more powerful tool to ram its views down the collective throats of the people of that state. It flies in the face of the freedom our Founding Fathers intended to have here.
2007-09-17 14:20:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The whole idea behind these assignments are to make you think on your own.
Think what would happen, if you unified state and church. Which church? Would it be protestant or catholic? What happen to all the Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, etc, etc, etc?
Is religion belief or fact? What is this country based on? Is it fair to people who don't believe in the particular religion?
Hopefully, that will get you started.
2007-09-17 14:20:09 · answer #3 · answered by tkquestion 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That would make for state-sponsored churches, and even though I do attend Church on a regular basis, I have no desire to have anyone tell me I must attend.
2007-09-17 15:24:26 · answer #4 · answered by Mark A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are several reasons, some of which are simple
1) people have different religions
2) holding political and religious power can give you too much power
3) religious people in power can do strange things based on religion (like Salem Witch Trials)
4) teaching religion in schools would offend people of different religions or make people intolerant of other religions
5) people can interpret religion to back their own beliefs of right and wrong, and if they control religion and law it is absolute power over people
2007-09-17 14:17:30 · answer #5 · answered by MrPotatoHead 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The church would have to be subjected to government policies and regulations if they were to unify.
2007-09-17 14:21:43 · answer #6 · answered by Mo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look at the countries that have it.
There is no democracy, the church will say what is acceptable for all.
2007-09-17 14:16:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
too many "different" churches and only one state
2007-09-17 14:16:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do your own homework.
2007-09-17 14:37:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋