The Establishment Clause
If the establishment clause of the constitution was changed by the Supreme Court to allow the establishment of State religions (as long as it didn’t establish a federal religion), what religion would you want your state to be?
Do you think that would lead to discrimination against other religions in your state?
How would you feel if your religion was different than the State religion?
Would this lead to prayers in school only for students that practice the State religion, and what should happen to students of other religions?
I am a Christian and I think that Denomination is not Biblical. God did not intend for his people to
to divide and for their to be strife. The core of the Christian faith is Jesus. If you call yourself
a Christian then you concede that you believe in Jesus Christ and accept him as the true Son of God.
I feel that making states solely one religion goes against God as he allows us all freedom of
choice to accept Christ and acknowledge God or not. I think the establishment of “state mandated
religion” would only cause more strife and division and yes it would make the ones not In the
chosen religion feel outcast and that is not what Jesus was about, he spent more time hanging out
with the outcast than he did the “legalist”, and rule makers. As a Christian I already feel like I am
in the minority, and are judged by non-believers. Just because some people are consumed by being the
judge and jury for the world does not mean that we are all that way. The greatest commandment in
the Bible is to love thy neighbor as thyself, and it did not say if he is the same religion as you.
There is a big difference in being Religious and being Spiritual and loving God and His Son. I
try to accept people as they are, I may not agree with their beliefs, but they might not believe in
mine. God is about Love and he is the final Judge , I don’t have to take that role, and praise God that
I don’t have to.
Comment by Tracy — 12/1/2005 @ 7:44 pm
The greatest commandment is “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul
and all your mind and all your strength”. The second is “love your neighbor as yourself”.
The problem most Christians have is not the separation (although not mandated by the
constitution) but the overstep of this idea. When we do not allow activities that “may be
perceived” as favoring one religion over the other, that is when we are concerned.
Perception is irrelevant in law, except if you are the ACLU.
Comment by Caniac — 6/21/2006 @ 11:49 am