There is no Church and State. The Catholic Church has no office or authority in the U.S. Government. The Baptist Church has no office or authority in the U.S. Government. Nor do the Mormons, the Pentecostals, or any of the other nearly 41,000 sects of Christianity. Neither does the Church of Scientology, Wicca, Chuthulu, or Bob. So, which Church has office or authority in the US Government? There is none. What we have is people. People who are elected officials (meaning one way or another, you had a hand in putting them there), and people are members of various religious denominations... or not. They are people who hold the values of their particular religion or non-religion, and those values are going to affect how they manage things. By asking for a complete removal of "Church from State" what you are really asking for is to vote in only atheists &or humanists into office. If you don't like your Conservative Christian congress(wo)man, then do what is necessary to vote him/her out of office. Otherwise, if you want the complete removal of religio-spiritual influence from all government agency, you had better get started on those AI robots. Let me know how that works out for you.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Church and State
I saw a post this morning that read; "Pass the 28th Amendment: The Complete removal of the Church from the State," and it got me to thinking: It can't be done.
There is no Church and State. The Catholic Church has no office or authority in the U.S. Government. The Baptist Church has no office or authority in the U.S. Government. Nor do the Mormons, the Pentecostals, or any of the other nearly 41,000 sects of Christianity. Neither does the Church of Scientology, Wicca, Chuthulu, or Bob. So, which Church has office or authority in the US Government? There is none. What we have is people. People who are elected officials (meaning one way or another, you had a hand in putting them there), and people are members of various religious denominations... or not. They are people who hold the values of their particular religion or non-religion, and those values are going to affect how they manage things. By asking for a complete removal of "Church from State" what you are really asking for is to vote in only atheists &or humanists into office. If you don't like your Conservative Christian congress(wo)man, then do what is necessary to vote him/her out of office. Otherwise, if you want the complete removal of religio-spiritual influence from all government agency, you had better get started on those AI robots. Let me know how that works out for you.
There is no Church and State. The Catholic Church has no office or authority in the U.S. Government. The Baptist Church has no office or authority in the U.S. Government. Nor do the Mormons, the Pentecostals, or any of the other nearly 41,000 sects of Christianity. Neither does the Church of Scientology, Wicca, Chuthulu, or Bob. So, which Church has office or authority in the US Government? There is none. What we have is people. People who are elected officials (meaning one way or another, you had a hand in putting them there), and people are members of various religious denominations... or not. They are people who hold the values of their particular religion or non-religion, and those values are going to affect how they manage things. By asking for a complete removal of "Church from State" what you are really asking for is to vote in only atheists &or humanists into office. If you don't like your Conservative Christian congress(wo)man, then do what is necessary to vote him/her out of office. Otherwise, if you want the complete removal of religio-spiritual influence from all government agency, you had better get started on those AI robots. Let me know how that works out for you.
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