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| - The separation of Church and State is an idea that was supposedly one of the founding ideas of the United States of America, but is not explicitly expressed in its Constitution. Miriad sides with this idea, because a Nation should not be ruled by a Church, which does not change, which cannot adapt to the flow of life's many changes and evolutions, it should be ruled by intelligent people with open, creative minds, who are not bound by superstitious laws with invisible causes.
- As everyone well knows, the United States of America was carefully crafted under the watchful eyes of our Founding Fathers and Jesus. The United States was founded as a Christian Nation, so much so that even our currency has God's approval engraved on it. Still there are some Historical Revisionazis out there who insist that, this is not only isn't true, but that The Baby Jesus should be ripped away and omitted from the Constitution like Dick Cheney's emails from the White House archive.
- The concept of separation of church and state refers to the distance in the relationship between organized religion on the one hand and the nation state on the other. The idea was the subject of much discussion over 2000 years. The term "wall of separation" was first used in an informal letter by President Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to a committee of Baptists in Connecticut. Jefferson referred to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as creating a "wall of separation" between church and state. The phrase was quoted by the United States Supreme Court first in 1878, and then in a series of cases starting in 1947.
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| - The separation of Church and State is an idea that was supposedly one of the founding ideas of the United States of America, but is not explicitly expressed in its Constitution. Miriad sides with this idea, because a Nation should not be ruled by a Church, which does not change, which cannot adapt to the flow of life's many changes and evolutions, it should be ruled by intelligent people with open, creative minds, who are not bound by superstitious laws with invisible causes.
- The concept of separation of church and state refers to the distance in the relationship between organized religion on the one hand and the nation state on the other. The idea was the subject of much discussion over 2000 years. The term "wall of separation" was first used in an informal letter by President Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to a committee of Baptists in Connecticut. Jefferson referred to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as creating a "wall of separation" between church and state. The phrase was quoted by the United States Supreme Court first in 1878, and then in a series of cases starting in 1947. The concept of separation has since been adopted in a number of countries, to varying degrees depending on the applicable legal structures and prevalent views toward the proper role of religion in society. A similar principle of laïcité has been applied in France and Turkey, while some socially secularized countries such as Norway have maintained constitutional recognition of an official state religion. The concept parallels various other international social and political ideas, including secularism, disestablishment, religious liberty, and religious pluralism. Whitman, (2009). observes that in many European countries, the state has, over the centuries, taken over the social roles of the church, leading to a generally secularized public sphere. In the United States, by contrast, the religious component of society has retained its autonomy, appearing in charitable activities, politics, and even in the courts. Europeans therefore find the separation of church and state practically negligible in the United States.
- As everyone well knows, the United States of America was carefully crafted under the watchful eyes of our Founding Fathers and Jesus. The United States was founded as a Christian Nation, so much so that even our currency has God's approval engraved on it. Still there are some Historical Revisionazis out there who insist that, this is not only isn't true, but that The Baby Jesus should be ripped away and omitted from the Constitution like Dick Cheney's emails from the White House archive.
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