Yes, sasquatch, which is why I am glad that I live in the US, where the delineation of
church and state exists.
Separation of
church and state exists for a reason.
Separation of
church and state exist for ALL religions, public schools are part of the state.
It is about before
church and state existed, and my hope is that it can help us start to imagine what we might build in the next epoch, after church and state.
Not exact matches
However Katharine Jefferts Schori, of The Episcopal
Church, said in a statement: «I rejoice that the Supreme Court has opened the way for the love of two people to be recognized by all the
states of this Union,
and that the Court has recognized that it is this enduring, humble love that extends beyond the grave that is to be treasured by society wherever it
exists.
No legal mechanisms
existed for cooperation between
Church and state.
So that we may accomplish this task, God has established three estates, in which all people
exist and find their roles:
state,
church,
and family.
Never mind that the same policies already
exist within
state laws including Romney's
and Gingrich's home states.The policy doesn't apply to
churches, but rather then BUSINESSES operated by the
churches.
We easily regard as the defeat
and regression of the
Church in modern times what is actually only the social manifestation of a
state which has always
existed, even in the so - called good old days, because even then people, on the average, had but little faith, hope
and love of God
and men.
There
exists, therefore,
and must
exist, a teaching of the
Church which possesses an importance
and binding force for the faith
and moral conscience of the individual Catholic, although in what it directly
states it can not
and does not intend to make any claim to the absolute assent of faith,
and although it is not irreformable but is still involved in the elucidatory development of the
Church's consciousness of its belief.
Eliot believed a
state of tension would,
and probably should, always
exist between
church and state,
and that individual Christians would feel a dual allegiance.
Given that you've discussed a paradigm where the proper role is for «the
State» (or a nation) to
exist and make decisions in ruling itself
and perhaps relating to other nations, but it must be operating with with «the
Church» advising it; you say:
Actually those he's speaking against are those that want to push creationism in public schools where seperation of
church and state is supposed to
exist.
The cozy marriage of
church and state that had
existed throughout much of Europe was a prize that both Catholic
and Protestant
church leaders were loath to give up.
However, despite the
state - sponsored crackdown, the group which «
exists to strengthen
and expand the
Church in the Iran region
and beyond», said the intimidation isn't stopping people from embracing Christianity.
The separation of
church and state has to
exist, but look how angry everyone becomes, when prayer
and other religious symbols are removed from public displays
and functions?
All religions
exist at the pleasure of the secular
state and are expected to confine their activities to their designated territory, namely, the
church or religious community.
For example, a Presbyterian resolution
states «that all planning for new
church building
and for major renovation to
existing church buildings shall take into consideration the needs of the handicapped members of our society, in order that all may enter into our fellowship.»
Deplore as we may the existence of the parochial school, its challenge to the separation of
church and state,
and its attempted inroads on the public treasury, the fact remains that parochial schools
exist primarily because Catholic parents, who pay their public - school taxes, think it worth while to submit to additional cost
and often to much inconvenience to see to it that their children receive the religious instruction denied them in the public schools.
Once DOMA is overturned as well as traditional marriage
state laws, more
and more
churches, than already
exist, will open their doors to gay couples with no strings attached.
exactly the problem, most Americans are lost in this christian talibanized religion, separation of
church and state does not
exist in the United
States however separation of christian taliban
and non believers does
exist.
«The faith of the
Church has always insisted that between God
and us, between his eternal Creator Spirit
and our created reason, there
exists a real analogy, in which — as the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215
stated — unlikeness remains infinitely greater than likeness, yet not to the point of abolishing analogy
and its language.
What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society
and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth
and adults... No exact measure
exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic
Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United
States.»
Such traditions of the union of
Church and State has had
existed in colonial days were early officially dissipated.
They've been convinced that America will go to hell in a handbasket if gays have equal rights, if women are allowed control over their own bodies, or if true separation of
church and state is allowed to
exist.
The case of Italy is an interesting one, for it is a society in which
church and state have long
existed in uneasy balance, with occasional bitter periods when one attempted to subordinate the other.
I haven't been to
church in over ten years...
and yes, I am from the Bible Belt... but have Muslim friends raised here, as well as a huge load of Jewish friends who have been raised here... what I'm noticing is that the majority of you, because of my
state being «red, have a very poor notion of the diversity that does
exist here.
As to the seperation of
church and state, I'm not sure if I'm confident that either, as they currently
exist, need to
exist at all.
The International Tribunal into Crimes of
Church and State seems to
exist, or is a very clever hoax posted on the net.