Can you share your view on this?

Question

one of the first things I noticed after moving to Idaho was an open policy about religion in public. Driving on the main freeway you will see a billboard with scriptures. The first school play we went to they openly sung songs of Jesus's birth and the play had religion overtones. It was very refreshing and freeing to see this since being from California this was a BIG no,no. Since moving here Idaho has become one of the fastest growing states in the past two years. Many Californians have moved in bringing their Californian views on religion and state. One of the first thing that was petitioned and challenged was the ten commanments that had always been mounted in the park. Battle stands taken on both sides made the news often. Because of this and a few other things, Idahoans hate Californians and loothe the idea of them moving in.

My question: Who is in the right here and why , in regards to religion?

Answer 1

The Californians are WRONG. If you move into a community then you live as that community lives, or move again.
You can't move into a place and in 2 minutes ruin it for the people that have lived there for 100's of years.
What is right and wrong has already been determined by the forefathers and historical evidence of the views of the people.
I hope the Idahoans can kick out the trouble makers.

Answer 2

I'm opposed to all billboards, whatever they advertise. They're just ugly. But that's that.

From where I am, it's the opposite -- Colorado was the *first* state in the union to legalize abortion. As one article I read quiet a while ago read, back in the day, Colorado's religion was skiing. (I'll try to dig it up.)

It was an observation of what many people have noticed: With Conservative Christians fleeing from San Diego and Orange County, Colorado (especially Colorado Springs) has become much more religious.

I watched with dismay as religion was *added* to a handful of public institutions, and there was a petition to modify the murals in the Assembly hall to include icons of religion.

Religion has no place in the public sector. Remember that religion thrived in the United States but declined in Europe when the US took a secular attitude toward it.

EDIT: Well, I can't find it, but the writer's observation was one that rings true for me. It used to be that, even in Colorado Springs, people met you and asked, "Where do you ski?" They never asked, "Where do you go to church?" -- and that's what's changed.

Answer 3

I'm from Idaho and know exactly what you're referring to. I wasn't a "transplant", I have very deep roots in Idaho. I don't begrudge the changing attitudes the Californians bring in--change happens, even in Idaho. The fact that religious artifacts are on federal and public ground is wrong, in my opinion. It's the government advocating a certain religion, which is harmful and totally unnecessary.

Answer 4

The way to kill a religion is to oversaturate the population/society with it. Look at the European culture, specifically Italy, where religion was forced on them for hundreds of years. Now religion is dying or dead in europe, and in America where there is a seperation of church and state, religion thrives.

What I am saying is if you really want to kill religion, oversaturate the public with no seperation of church and state.

To answer your question, there should be a seperation of church and state, and those billboards you are referring to are probably wrong.

Answer 5

I think they are both right, to tell you the truth. I value what the Californians stand for but I also value the rights of the communities that were there before.

Answer 6

The law states separation of church and state. Putting religious stuff up on public property violates that law. If people want to they can sue the city to have it removed.

Answer 7

Don't read and drive, it's bad for you.