Sentences with phrase «state out of religion»

That wall of separation keeps the State out of religion; it doesn't keep the religious out of politics.

The wall keeps the State out of religion, not the faithful out of politics.

Seperation of church and state has to do with keeping the state out of religion, not the other way around.

JPT: «Seperation of church and state has to do with keeping the state out of religion, not the other way around.»

It was written by the founding fathers to keep the STATE out of religion.

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Some legal experts warn the RFRA bills have tended to expand the narrow instances in which individuals and businesses can use their religion to opt out of activities the state might compel them to do, such as to serve all customers.

When our fore fathers came up with the idea of seperation of church and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the government.

They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which means gays are out, but everyone else has to be considered for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your religion or other protected status are essential for the job... for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that of the church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).

The minute to bring religion in as your justification for abortion laws (or any laws honestly) the whole argument becomes invalid and should be tossed out due to a seperation of church and state.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

So many people who advocate or speak publicly for political or personal reasons aren't acknowledged as much when it comes to religion when someone is wanting to speak out about there faith a light bulb goes off and says we don't want to hear, or talk, or, air any thing that has to do with the mentioning of God but because of the high profile story and because this is the President of the United States it's ok hats off to them for not being ashamed to speak about there faith I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't mean there trying to push there beliefs on anyone people of faith have a right to free speech also.

Well, when you took religion out of America with the separation of church and state, no one particularly cares about religion any more.

Christianity is the religion out of which separation of church and state came * and has always been the main opponent of separation of church and state.

Listen to James Madison speak about the need for the need to keep religion out of government (Jefferson wasn't the only one to explicitly speak of the separation of church and state):

Separation of Church and State means they can not opt out of a federal regulation because they feel it goes against their religion.

A parallel story is playing itself out in religion, where Protestants, who have traditionally predominated in the United States, now constitute a little more than half of American adults.

The English tradition of religious toleration, which is the source of our legal ideal of the free exercise of religion, arose in the wake of long and bloody religious wars to secure some peace among conflicting sects by keeping individual belief out of the state's reach.

Ayesha Khan, legal director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which represents Galloway and Stephens in the lawsuit, said in a statement that «legislative bodies should focus on serving the community and stay out of the business of promoting religion.»

I don't get it... we re supposed to have a seperation of church and state in our politics yet we find that our political world is constantly guided by flawed religious beliefs... now religious beliefs are creeping into the workplace, at what point would someone possibly be denied a job because a perspective employer finds out that a perspective employees religious beliefs don't follow the employers... sorry guys religion doesn; t belong in politics or the workplace in any way, shape or form.

With a lot of the so called Christians I have encountered, it seems that they distort scripture to fit a political agenda.I am convinced that if Jesus were walking the earth today, and came into the home of a born again, with his message of mercy, forgiveness, charity, and love, they would call him a pinko or a hippie freak, and throw him out on his backside.Constitutionally, our government can not create a state religion or interfere in the inner workings of the churches.It should work in both directions.

I really hope that the GOP catches up on domestic issues and realizes that religion needs to stay out of politics, because I and many others believe that Small government where the majority of power is left to the states is the superior form of government, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Whether church - related agencies can get all the public money they want with out having to conform to the constitutional requirements that properly go with it should hardly be the crucial litmus test of church - state relations or of the optimal application of the First Amendment's religion clauses.

After all, the dominant religions in the United States keep their followers by encouraging them to remain ignorant of other religions out of fear they will find out that there's basically nothing new under the sun, and that the ideas of Christianity date all the way back to ancient Egyptian religion ant the mythology surrounding Horus and Set.

Furthermore, if you're not an expert on every religion out there, can you really state that each one really believes that their own way is the only acceptable way of worshipping that God?!

WHY, as commented by many, IF, the Qur «an states that all the infidels should be wiped out, and this is wrong, and Islam is a religion of peace, have their religious leaders remained silent?

Whitehead states the wrong: «Mr. Russell, a scholar known in every major university of the world, impelled by motives which religion dare not disown, has been driven out of academic life and deprived of academic encouragement...» Whitehead «leave [s] the question here,» without drawing the conclusion explicitly: restore the lectureship to rectify the wrong.

On the other hand, psychiatrist Richard G. Johnson has stated that «a healthy mind is necessary for a person to get the most out of his religion.»

The freedom of religion clause in the first amendment was to keep the government from establishing a state religion that all must be party to like it was in England (hince the Church of England) not to keep prayer out of anything the government has it's hands in.

At the height of religious indoctrination in the United States courtesy of Graham and company, the world was at war, so the world was out of control not due to lack of religion but because lets face it, men are stupid.

Or freedom from religion, but there was once an article that had Texas» Board of Education trying to make Thomas Jefferson vanish from the history books, and was he not the one who believed in «separation between church and state» as well... anyone not believing me is free to spend a few seconds to do some web searches... the articles are out there... or people can remain in ignorance, but then they still won't feel any more blissful or happier...

It is extremely rare for a government with out an official state policy of atheism, to persecute religions.

As a Rabbi, I do have somewhat of an axe to grind here, but Jews are not the majority in this country.Respect for any person's belief is important.Mixing state holidays and religions is a bad idea.Somebody is going to get left out and be upset.Where does it end?

Just as he did in Earthly Powers, Burleigh's new book shows how the over-politicized state, having failed to wipe out Christianity, became insanely jealous of it, eventually trying to appropriate its power and even adopting its rituals and rites to produce new, secularized religions, reproducing in reverse the dogmatism they rejected but without any biblical restraints.

One advantage you get out of separation of church and state is that you are allowed to discriminate against non-Christians and Christians you don't approve of in religious workplaces such as Christian schools when secular businesses aren't allowed to discriminate based on religion.

«One of the good things God might bring out of this evil and this tragedy would be now some type of alliance between religion and the educational establishment in a major national campaign to see that this is faced head on,» said Archbishop Timothy Dolan, the top Catholic official in the United States.

«When Christians speak out on issues, the hue and cry from the humanist state and media is that Christians, and all religions, are prohibited from speaking since there is a separation of church and state» (Christian Manifesto.

Communism, as originally laid out by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, required the abolition of all religion in order to reach its ideal end - state.

I would like to point out that the trraditional «state religion» of progressive socialism is atheism.

Seperation of church & state... Good reasons why our founding fathers kept religion out of our politics.

The office's tasks — to advise State Department leaders on religion - related policy matters and to help diplomats navigate religious dynamics overseas — and its million - dollar budget should be moved under the Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF), according to a proposal laid out this fall.

(CNN)- The U.S. ambassador to Malta has submitted his resignation, just over a week after he was called out in a State Department report for allegedly devoting time to writing about religion at the expense of his official duties.

This latter state of things, being the more complex, is also the more complete; and as we proceed, I think we shall have abundant reason for refusing to leave out either the sadness or the gladness, if we look at religion with the breadth of view which it demands.

Seriously, though, I thought Jack Kennedy got the United States out of the swamp of confusing politics with main line religion.

Moreover, instead of allowing religion to be disguised in the functioning of the so - called secular nation - state, it is better for minorities that it be out in the open where it can be marked, named, and interrogated.

Keep the outward profession of religion out of the state house and the Congress.

It is in this connection that I must again point out the absence of any reference to God, and thus of any civil religion, in the Constitution of the United States, Belief in the tenets of the civil religion are legally incumbent on no one and there are no official interpreters of civil theology.

[1] Communism, as originally laid out by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, required the abolition of all religion in order to reach its ideal end - state.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Our forefathers create a nation where there was a separation of church and state, they were smart enough to realize that this was required for our nation to grow, there are hundreds of religions out there, and all of them point out that they are the «best», and they are right... come on.

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