The majority of Americans believe in the Christian God of the Bible, but how much of the Bible's teachings are actually becoming a part of our political policies? How is it that the United States Government has the ability to grant marriage licenses to heterosexual couples but not homosexual? Why is abortion a controversy and not a one-sided scientific fact? How is it that we, as a country, have become complacent yet aggressive, ignorant yet dangerous, and freedom-loving yet oppressive?
Every time I watch an American politician give a speech, it somehow invariably ends with, "God bless America", or something like that. But why? Why has it become easier to get elected if you admit to believing the word of God? I don't see many atheist politicians, or people of other religions. It seems to me that Christianity has the monopoly on American politics. We were given the freedom of religion to worship however we wished, and most of the founding fathers were either not very religious or hated Christianity. So how is it, despite what our well-meaning founders attempted to give us, we have become predominately Christian in policy? John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and others would all be appalled at the sight of the ten commandments in a courthouse or at the amount to which the Bible has leaked into our lawmaking. A separation of church and state means that no church should hold any sway in politics, yet we have failed miserably in this regard. The doctrine of Christianity is slowly becoming the absolute law of the land. There's a difference between taking your morals from a single source that you hold higher than all others and purposefully trying to impose those sets of morals into a governing body that is supposed to remain neutral. It doesn't take long before a religion that is becoming law becomes so intertwined with the workings of the system that it becomes nearly impossible to take it out. As these laws infect the system, politicians that favor keeping these laws become easier and easier to elect. If the majority of a generation is forced to agree with Christian values through law, the next generation will become more accepting of those values, and so on, until there is little left to distinguish country from church.
Now, I'm not saying that this is definitely what I believe is going to happen. I just find the idea of religiously inspired laws in a democracy that serves religions of all kinds appalling.
Does where a person draws their moral code from matter as long as you agree with it?
Is the separation of Church and State reasonable?
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