Is it ethical to bring the Christian religion into our government and schools?

Question

For example, deciding laws based on the Bible, teaching ID as a science course in school, displaying crosses and the ten commandments on government buildings, and swearing over the Bible in court.

Are these practices permitable in society, or if not, should they be? This is mostly a question for Christians, since I'm referring to your religion specifically.

Answer 1

As we (in the U.S.) have an ostensibly secular democracy and a population with very diverse cultures and beliefs, it's unethical and actually tyrannical to advocate governmental promotion of religion or religious laws. Not to mention unconstitutional.

Answer 2

I don't know if any judge uses the Buy-bull as a reference. I think they refer to previous cases. I couldn't tell you if ID is taught in school anymore. I'm pretty sure displaying crosses or the Ten Commandments on government property (schools and courts) has been outlawed and I know a Bible is no longer used to swear a court oath on. Also, the phrase 'Under God' was taken out of the pledge. atheists.org has something about it. I'm not sure about the currency.
Anyway, they (Christians) were allowed to break laws and insert their religion everywhere during the 1950's (The Red Scare) and now that the people in general want America back to it's neutral state, they think they're being victimized!
To David (& anyone like him): Check out the Treaty of Tripoli, Sec 11-It specifically states that America IS NOT a Christian nation.
Jesse D-The first five commandments are about how/when to worship a particular deity. The other five are rules any society would govern themselves by. Think of the ancient Egyptians and the Greeks. They did just fine w/o a list of commandments. Had courts and laws and everything.

Answer 3

If laws are not based on the Bible then they are based on one's personal opinion, and second why are the ten commandments so opposed?? If a man came up with these ideas they would be hailed as a social revolutionary standard, I mean think if everyone followed it...I may be thinking of an overly utopian society, but nobody would steal, nobody would commit adultery, children would respect their parents, people wouldn't be falsely convicted by people lying on trial,...because God said it, that turns on people bias filter and they repulse it,
Just because the Bible is out of school does not mean there is no religion...Naturalism is a a religion, after all naturalists were not there in the begining so they have faith that what is going on now has always gone on in the past (uniformitarianism), also Islam and buddism can be taught to learn more about that religion, but not Christianity?? What is up with that?
Finally, where in the constitution does it say that there is to be seperation of Church and state??

Answer 4

Have you ever read our Constitution of the Unites States. Those who put it together were Christan's mostly. They left England for freedom of religion. Our Constitution is based on the Bible. The separation of church and state was that no religion could control the government, that is the only purpose for it.This country is based on the freedoms that are found in the Bible. The church of England had it hands in the government just like Rome had, still dose. The worst thing that has ever happened to this country is when they through God out of the schools and the Government. Look how things have turned out. If God is gone, maybe the wicked things that are done, no one will have to give an account of. We are fooling nobody but our selves.

Answer 5

This answer has nothing to do with science....

As a Christian I think it would be wrong for a religious group to use the Public Schools to indoctrinate or force their sectarian moral views on "captive" children. At the same time, it is also unethical for a group like Planned Parenthood or those pushing the homosexual agenda to force their brand of values on "captive" children. The following is fact, not opinion - There is NO trend toward homeschooling by secularists to protect their children from the imposition of unwanted Christian moral values by the public schools. On the other hand, there is a MEGA-TREND toward homeschooling by religious parents that want to protect their children from the unwholesome influences of feminist, gay, relativistic, etc. ideology that is embedded in school curriculum. A primary driver for home schooling families is the desire to shield ones children from special interest groups that use the schools to bypass parental filters and safeguards to market unwholesome/unwanted and sometimes dangerous values and behaviors to children.

Answer 6

IMHO and providing an extremely over simplified response, Jefferson's suggestion of providing a 'wall of separation' was intended to prohibit the governement from establishing or giving preferential treatment to one Christian denomination over another (i.e., Baptist over Methodist, Presbyterians over Quakers, etc, etc).

I think there is voluminous historical documentation that our Founding Fathers expected that the country they were establishing would be and always be a Christian nation, but today's humanistic educational system make sure those historical documents never make there way into a text book to be used in a classroom.

Oh I could go on and on, but what's the use. Just check out all the thumbs down votes my post will no doubt get from those who will not take the time to check out the facts and truth about what I have said.

Answer 7

It's very unethical. Religion is a personal thing and should be left at that. If someone wants to pray, let them pray and mind your own business. If someone wants to lead unwilling persons in a prayer, that is crossing the line. Intelligent design is a religious theory. It can be taught in religious studies classes. There's nothing scientific about it, so it does not belong in science classes.

Answer 8

Absolutely not. Religion should be separated from government and public schools. Christians probably wouldn't want atheists or some scientists coming into their church and advocating evolution and things. They need to keep there noses out of it. If not then religious institutions need to be taxed then.

Answer 9

Ethics has nothing to do with this issue, else there will be no Christian schools. The problem is whether it is Constitutional to do all those...and the answer is yet to be declared. As far as I'm concern, the First Amendment needs to be Amended, it's so out dated.

Answer 10

Yes, the original schools were Christian ran and bible based. I believe that the ten commandments should be prominently posted in all schools, prayer from a Christian over the intercom in the morning and the bible required reading for middle school up. I also think there should be bible based dramas and puppets for assembly unless a child has a note from their parents. Those children should be placed in study hall.