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RE: The Separation of Church and State
November 12, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Leik the ones against abortion and homosexual marriage?
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RE: The Separation of Church and State
November 12, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Until we stop pretending to separate church and state in our government: I am against the merest idea of having faith in ridiculous things in our government. A government needs to know what the hell is really going on... do you think it's being almost completely Christian helps it know what the fuck to do if missiles are laughed at us?
Let me guess... pray? That sort of person doesn't belong in positions of power... they are too weak to make the decisions they will need to make. Nor should they be able to make ridiculous decisions just because they 'heard a voice' or 'had a vision' or the like... I'm sorry, I had enough of that bullshittery with Bush.
Religion does not belong in politics... any more than it belongs in the government or in science or in schools. If anything... it should be a personal thing that we aren't too serious about. But religions organized to the scale of indoctrinating 83% of the nation... that is just morally wrong on so many levels... those 83% of brainwashed people have much less of a right to obtain an office than do the rationalists. /sigh, you can probably tell that I strongly disagree with a democratically based state... I think we need leaders who are as virtuous and capable of the job as it is conceivable they be... not the democratically elected new 'Pope of america' that could one day plague our future. The only thing saving us from that one is the separation of church and state. And ~80% of americans might very well want to vote to repeal that law.
That is a problem, in my opinion. o.o
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RE: The Separation of Church and State
November 12, 2009 at 5:16 pm
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2009 at 5:20 pm by Rhizomorph13.)
That is, of course, part of it but I would think that another motivating force would be due to an adherance to the ideology put forth by our fore-fathers. What I mean is that even a true Christian might understand the need for the seperation of church and state and follow that ideal while creating policy.
The golden rule is a good one.
So, if the majority of the country switched to a religion that believed that a eugenics program should be instituted to perfect the human genome so that our bodies would be perfect hosts for symbiotes from the planet zorch, our elected officials would understand that it would be unethical to enact a law that would require the citizenry to abort children that do not meet the state mandated criteria for acceptable DNA. The real freedom would come from maintaining the legal status of abortion so that people of this religion would have the freedom to practice their kooky religion while not affecting the rest of us.
Sae,
I missed your post in the cross so I would just like to say that I agree with you that church and state should be seperate. I even think that Rjh4 believes this as well. Please correct me if I am wrong Rjh4.
Rhizo
