“t Nations Under God”
Since the days of our forefathers religion has been the basis on which America was founded on. We use phrases such as, “God bless America”, “one nation under God”, and “in God we trust”. The United States has been described by many as a nation with the soul of a church. Religion is even discussed more in American politics than in any other wealthy nation, and continues to grow in influence over many of today’s important issues. So is there really a separation of church and state? Who are those who abuse the use of religion for political gain? And are these things helping or hurting the country?
The separation of church and state has become a very hot topic of discussion over a recent number of years. With stories in the news such as last years presidential election, to the more recent Terri Schiavo case, more and more people are asking the question “how much influence does religion have on our government?”. If you look at the Terri Schaivo case you’ll see that many people used religion as their means of deciding on how they felt about the situation. In this instance, there were basically two sides two this issue. First you have the liberals. Liberals are seen as free thinkers. These are the people who were for the removal of the Terri Schaivo’s feeding tube. There are many liberals who are religious, but did not feel as if removing the tube was unchristian-like. This is exactly the opposite of the people on the other side of the issue who are referred to as the “religious right” or conservatives. These people feel that a real Christian would never remove a feeding tube from a person and starve them to death. They felt like this is an act of murder because you are taking someone’s life, which is a violation of one of the Ten Commandments (thou shall not kill). Ultimately the ruling in the case was that the feeding tube be removed, which caused an uproar in the religious community. There were many conservative politicians as...
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