Religious Influence
by Mark West
http://home.earthlink.net/~marknkriswest/
What place should religion have in government operation? Should the two be totally divorced from one another or should the government merely be restricted from endorsing religious observance?
These questions face the 85th General Assembly of the Arkansas Congress. Representative Buddy Blair (D – Fort Smith) sponsored House Resolution 1005 that would eviscerate the influence of religion in our state government. The resolution, before it was changed, said that government should “operate independent of religious influence.” However, Representative Blair maintains that his bill is, “not anti-religion.”
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http://home.earthlink.net/~marknkriswest/
What place should religion have in government operation? Should the two be totally divorced from one another or should the government merely be restricted from endorsing religious observance?
These questions face the 85th General Assembly of the Arkansas Congress. Representative Buddy Blair (D – Fort Smith) sponsored House Resolution 1005 that would eviscerate the influence of religion in our state government. The resolution, before it was changed, said that government should “operate independent of religious influence.” However, Representative Blair maintains that his bill is, “not anti-religion.”
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posted by Anonymous at Thursday, February 10, 2005
2 Comments:
Mankind has already tried to form a government apart from religious influence- communism for example. Whatever its form, communist, facist, Baathist, etc.... all philosophies of government where the state is not subject to the mitigating power of faith wind up tyrannizing and oppressing their citizens. A state-based religion does the same. The state must be bound by the influence of the church, but not in league with it, else repression follows.
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