2007-10-29 04:36:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry...I meand.. about the possibility of a costitutional religion. The professor Ernest Gellner in an interesting essay suggest it against "the dangers of the relativism" like a system with the monarchic symbolism and ritual, transfering war' s functions in a secular field..
2007-10-29 23:48:23 · update #1
There is no civil religion. Only religious freedom to choose what is the right way for you. A civil religion would be a state sponsored religion which can never happen in the US.
2007-10-29 04:41:05 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not sure what you mean by civil religion. Unless you are referring to secular humanism, which I think has it's good and negative points. If you meant something more like a state religion, there is no state religion that has been established here in the United States, although the predominant religion that is practiced and observed here is Christianity, mainly Protestant Christianity.
2007-10-29 11:43:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion certainly permeates politics and society in general. I think a good argument could be made that it's bad for everyone including the dominant religion.
Rousseau would certainly recognize the US as having a civil religion even if some here won't. It's hard to argue that the government hasn't strongly promoted and favored one religion over all others and those with no religion.
2007-10-29 11:45:09 · answer #3 · answered by Demetri w 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Civil religion is a phrase that has no real depth or history, it is only one persons label for what he, and only he, has espoused. It has become a cliche'.
I'll respond to one of his own definition(s), injecting religion into public/political speech. I have no problem with this and, in fact, would encourage it.
In this time of wide spread indecency, lack of respect for ones self and others, and the threats we face from radicals, there is a need to keep God and/or a religion that respects the one real God is good and needed.
Yes, I am talking about the God known to the vast majority and denouncing sects and cults such as Islam and other crazies.
2007-10-29 11:56:07 · answer #4 · answered by howdigethere 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are reffering to a socio-societal compact as in Rousseau's concept of the "social contract" between society and a government, it's messed up and broken. We are all over the place. We want to evict this group and that group from our midst, justice is unequally applied, we can't agree on what torture or just, unjust punishments are, just to name a few problems. We are a mess. As far as being a just society goes, we are not.
2007-10-29 11:46:39 · answer #5 · answered by opinionator 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What are you talking about? I'm an American and I've never heard of "civil religion."
2007-10-29 11:40:37 · answer #6 · answered by Quaoar Rocks! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What "civil religion"?
We have freedom of religion, or at least we are supposed to.
Hopefully we will get the fundies out of our government soon.
2007-10-29 11:44:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What "civil religion"?
2007-10-29 11:38:59 · answer #8 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋