AmericanPatriot
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Step one, disect.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"
The first part of this permits every american the right to believe whatever they wish, and form a religious group based upon that belief system.
"or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
The second part shackels congress from making any law that would prohibit the belief system put in place by said religion.
Step Two Understand.
This part of the law in the literal sense says "You can make any law you wish as an individual or group by saying "God said it be so", and act upon that law in any manner you wish with no government intervention."
With this current law in place, the government has no right to tell you, that your not permitted to sacrafice a human being. Sacrafice may be from outdated religions, however it is still a religious belief. And therefore congress has no right to pass any law that would "Prohibit the free exercise of" that belief. Which in a very literal sense means you can kill someone if you believe your God wants them dead, and the government has no right to do anything about it.
Also, you must understand all current religion are nothing more than (in my opinion) seperate government bodies with there own laws, in use of obtaining power for those in high positions. I have yet to be given solid proof that any law or doctrine in any religion was written by anyone but man. (If you have proof, please share.)
Step Three Remove
Even if you add the words "Seperation of Church and State" to the constitution, it would not fully protect anyone from the possible previously mentioned (all though highly unlikly) scenario. Therefore we should just remove this part of the law all together. Yes, I believe the govenment should regulate religion. Although with our current system in the shambles it is in, I do see it being problematic. But so is everything else with the government involved. Personally, I think Religion should be banned all together. And though this is a very unpopular view, I believe it will if nothing else remove one more reason people kill eachother needlessly.
The second part of this post will be more involved with the current topic at hand.
As for Seperation of Church and State, you are right in the matter that it does not appear in the constitution and therefor if you wish to pray in school or put up your nativity scene on public property, you should have every right to do so. However, this also means that in those same places People of older religions such as the pagan religions of early europe should be permitted to dance naked to celebrate the solstice and equinox. And they would have to be permitted to have sexual encounters in public as part of their celebration. So if your ok with a mass orgy a few feet away from baby jesus, then by all means don't seperate church and state.
Step one, disect.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"
The first part of this permits every american the right to believe whatever they wish, and form a religious group based upon that belief system.
"or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
The second part shackels congress from making any law that would prohibit the belief system put in place by said religion.
Step Two Understand.
This part of the law in the literal sense says "You can make any law you wish as an individual or group by saying "God said it be so", and act upon that law in any manner you wish with no government intervention."
With this current law in place, the government has no right to tell you, that your not permitted to sacrafice a human being. Sacrafice may be from outdated religions, however it is still a religious belief. And therefore congress has no right to pass any law that would "Prohibit the free exercise of" that belief. Which in a very literal sense means you can kill someone if you believe your God wants them dead, and the government has no right to do anything about it.
Also, you must understand all current religion are nothing more than (in my opinion) seperate government bodies with there own laws, in use of obtaining power for those in high positions. I have yet to be given solid proof that any law or doctrine in any religion was written by anyone but man. (If you have proof, please share.)
Step Three Remove
Even if you add the words "Seperation of Church and State" to the constitution, it would not fully protect anyone from the possible previously mentioned (all though highly unlikly) scenario. Therefore we should just remove this part of the law all together. Yes, I believe the govenment should regulate religion. Although with our current system in the shambles it is in, I do see it being problematic. But so is everything else with the government involved. Personally, I think Religion should be banned all together. And though this is a very unpopular view, I believe it will if nothing else remove one more reason people kill eachother needlessly.
The second part of this post will be more involved with the current topic at hand.
As for Seperation of Church and State, you are right in the matter that it does not appear in the constitution and therefor if you wish to pray in school or put up your nativity scene on public property, you should have every right to do so. However, this also means that in those same places People of older religions such as the pagan religions of early europe should be permitted to dance naked to celebrate the solstice and equinox. And they would have to be permitted to have sexual encounters in public as part of their celebration. So if your ok with a mass orgy a few feet away from baby jesus, then by all means don't seperate church and state.