For several years, there has been an ongoing debate on the issue of separation of church and state. Some people believe that these words actually appear in the constitution, but actually, they do not. This has been one reason for this debate. Along with this misconception, the confusion over Thomas Jefferson's words in the First Amendment has contributed to this debate. He stated: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment or religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." What he meant by these words is that there should be no dominant religion in America and every person has the right to serve in any way that they please. Unfortunately, people believe that these words mean that government will totally separate itself from the religion. This confusion has created two separate sides of the debate. One side saying that religion should not be separated and the other side saying it should.
Personally, I believe that no matter how much people want it to be, church and state will never really be separated. The basis for this thought would be the mention of "God" in many of our countries documents and the Pledge of Allegiance. Also, the basis of our country was built on many of the principles of Christianity.
3 comments:
From the constitution it does sound like they are saying church and state will be seperated. And I agree with you about how they say it is seperated, but it's really not because God is mentioned in many documents like you said. And remember the saying "Treat others the way you want to be treated?" Where do you think that came from?
I agree with you on the idea that there will never be a fully separated church and states simply because of the foundation that this country was built on. In order to truly separate church and state, so many small things that we overlook on a daily basis would have to be changed, like the quote, "In God we trust" that is currently on our money. Because of things like this, I believed that the separation is one that is possible, but there would be a large opposition to the idea by people who want to preserve the history of our country.
church and state are said to be separated but it is clear that will never happen. They made us say "one nation under GOD " in the pledge of allegiance. That was something that was done every single morning. As the person above me stated "In God we trust" is indeed on our money so I agree with you.
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