RE: Separation of Science and State
November 17, 2020 at 4:39 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2020 at 4:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It functions as a religion because it unites those people in a moral whole over beliefs and practices relative to the sacred. We don't separate church from state on account of moral questions being unmeasurable (and it's merely your belief that this is the case, in any case). Nor do we separate church from state on account of schismatic behavior, or exempt a monolithic religion from separation.
These are the sorts of things that I was hoping to bring out by bringing up a religion of nature (which is really, really not hypothetical). All of the complaints that it's superstitious, gone. All of the complaints that it's religious statements can't be proven, demonstrated, or aren't true.... gone. Just assume such a religion, and with that sort of religion in mind, what do we think about separation of church and state?
These are the sorts of things that I was hoping to bring out by bringing up a religion of nature (which is really, really not hypothetical). All of the complaints that it's superstitious, gone. All of the complaints that it's religious statements can't be proven, demonstrated, or aren't true.... gone. Just assume such a religion, and with that sort of religion in mind, what do we think about separation of church and state?
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