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Whatever happened to separation of church and state?
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i think you're supposed to post an extract of the article too, so people don't have to sign up to a load of spam to read it.
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I always found it interesting that in the UK the state and church are heavily linked, I frequently was made (well, not forced, but everyone just did) pray at school...
And yet the UK is a very irreligious country, teh C of E is a standing joke and the most religious people here are immigrants (there are more practising Muslims in the UK than Christians I think) The US has this big deal about separating church and state, and is the most strongly religious industrially advanced nation on earth. |
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Thanks for posting the article in it's entirety...I though I posted some quotes...Sorry!
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"Human life is a creation of God, not a commodity to be exploited by man" I certainly am not sure if that is true and I certainly don't want the government promoting it or forceing it down people's throats. |
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I guess I just don't understand how so many people can use the argument of separation of church and state as an argument against so many things. Religion plays a strong role in billions of people's lives, to think their decisions and beliefs aren't going to be impacted by it seems unrealistic. And, just an FYI in case you think I'm saying this because I support the President's stand on these issues, I disagree with him on a lot of it. |
So-called "separation of church and state" is a collective figment of the left's imagination.
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The point is in the UK where the church and state are explicitly linked, the church is irrelevant.
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anyone who doesn't believe in evolution should stop taking antibiotics since pharmacology is based completely upon it. natural selection will then reslove this issue once and for all when all the creationists keel over from gangrenous paper cuts and leave only evolutionists in the breeding population. ;-)
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I guess I just don't understand how so many people can use the argument of separation of church and state as an argument against so many things. Religion plays a strong role in billions of people's lives, to think their decisions and beliefs aren't going to be impacted by it seems unrealistic.
[/B][/QUOTE] While religion plays a strong role in billions of people's lives, each person's interpretation and beliefs--even within a religion--may differ. I am sure there are some Christians that don't totally agree with Bush's interpretation of the Bible. I mean the KKK wil use passages from the Bible to back their beliefs and I'm sure not every Christian agrees with their views. My biggest problem comes from a political figure falling back on religion to either trample certain populations rights or attempt at gaining rights or stopping science from learning things that may help millions upon millions of people now and in the future. |
I personally dont think the goverment should be able to marry anyone. Marrige is a church institution like said above. The church should be free to marry and not marry whoever it so chooses. The goverment should only be able to grant civil unions and they should be to any kind of couple that seeks it
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as long as they carry the exact same rights marriage currently does for all, that is the right way to go. I was married by a judge, and religion had nothing to do with it, so civil union sounds more appropriate. |
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Marriages (of all forms) should be carried out by individuals according to their customs and religions. The state should issue certificates of civil union (that bestow all the rights that "married" people enjoy now) to every couple that wish to take on all the rights and responsibilities of a civil union. I'm pro-love, in case anyone is wondering.... |
The seperation of church and state are a requirement in any society that wishes to have equality and justice across the entire population. EVERY, and I do mean every single religion, will hold someone in a lesser regard if they are not part of the faith. Maybe not baltantly....but it is inherent in the very concept of religion that someone is correct and another is not.Government creates classes quite well on its own, without a hand from god.
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