Zone1 Separation of Church and State?

[BreezeWood]

Maybe read what Natural Rights are and where they come from. Then maybe you will understand why.

Throughout the period immediately preceding and overlapping the Revolution the dissentient religious bodies were vigorously claiming their natural right to be free from the established church ...

- would rather be your priest you need to make your point with.

 

[ThisIsMe]

The Constitution prohibits the hierarchy of Churches/Religions from being involved in State/Federal government. Popes, bishops, priests, ministers are set apart from government. However, this separation does not apply to the laity. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states the vocation of the laity:

898 "By reason of their special vocation it belongs to the laity to seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs and directing them according to God's will....

899 The initiative of lay Christians is necessary especially when the matter involves discovering or inventing the means for permeating social, political, and economic realities with the demands of Christian doctrine and life. This initiative is a normal element of the life of the Church….

People/citizens of faith are not only citizens of a nation, but are also citizens of the Kingdom of God. It is not only our right, but our duty to permeate the social, political, and economic realities within our governments.

The Constitution prohibits the hierarchy of Churches/Religions from being involved in State/Federal government

It doesn’t say that, I’m fact, Congress passed an act that was bi partisan, to make “in god we trust” the national motto and encouraged it being put in schools, federal buildings etc..

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/112th-congress/house-report/47/1#:~:text=IN%20GOD%20WE%20TRUST%20first,shall%20admit%20the%20inscription%20thereon.

 

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- would rather be your priest you need to make your point with.

I'd rather you read that document and educate yourself on the beliefs of the founding fathers of liberty and freedom instead of the doctrines of Karl Marx.