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Is it just me or does the Bible promote separation of church and state with that "Render unto Caesar" verse? Christians are always hollering "Put God back in schools and put God back in government".
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Vote " pass" if you don't care what the Bible says

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Grecio 7 Feb 24
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Sometimes I wonder is the constitution is a "living document" that is flexible and can be interpreted differently as our country continues to evolve culturally. Contrarily, Is the constitution stable and does it continue to mean what it has always meant?
When the 2nd amendment was written, the founding fathers did not know AK-47 machine guns would exist, and anyone can own as many as he/she likes.

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Here's another question. Does a US citizen have the right to speak against separation of church and state? I guess anybody can speak against the constitution whenever they please.
However, most Muslims believe that Sharia law trumps separation of church and state because it is their God's Law. I guess whenever the Muslim population of this country is greater than non-Muslims, then we will have Sharia law here.
We now have two Muslim's in Congress. Any Muslim running for office will receive every single Muslim vote. London, England has 51% Muslim population and has a Muslim Mayor.
When Muslims enter this country, they don't assimilate. They live in bands and Muslim neighborhoods. Dearborn, Michigan is a Muslim city now.
Modern Christians don't stone people to death, decapitate, cut off hands, cut out clitorises, and treat their women as second class citizens. However, Islam has failed to modernize. According to PEW research polls, 75% of Muslims around the world say they would support terrorism under certain circumstances.
Should we require every Muslim entering this country to sign a paper stating that they believe in the separation of church and state? Could the separation of church and state be a bad thing?

I agree that living in a muslin theocracy must be hell on earth and state law must always supersede sharia law but you are not helping your argument by quoting totally false statistics. True London has a Muslim mayor but the % of Muslims in the city was 12.5 in 2011 and will not be much higher now.

@Moravian Thanks, I stand corrected. In 2018 there is 48% Christian, 5% Hindu, some other smaller groups, and about 20% said they follow no religion.
Perhaps the mayor is a Muslim that is reasonable. Sorry.

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That's a very interesting thought--

Carin Level 8 Feb 26, 2019
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My particular sub-tribe of evangelicals, back in the day (1970s) used to actually teach not only that this separation was important to society, but to the church itself, as our job was to "share the love of Christ", not seek mere temporal power and influence. Yes, we thought it was magically beneficial if children could pray in school, but we had our own private schools for that kind of thing. I actually wasn't comfortable overtly showing my faith in public school. Like any teen, I knew I would be laughed to scorn.

How times have changed!

In the 1980s, Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority and other similar groups began to seek that very political influence that so long had been beneath us. Eventually they sold whatever soul they had to obtain it, and now they are literally making what we, back in the 70s, would have regarded as deals with the devil to hold onto it.

If I were still a god-botherer, I would have long ago quit in disgust just over this issue alone.

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You're right.

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