but the president (the embodiment of power in our modern democratic republic) is elected (in theory of course) not to pursue the beliefs of the majority that elected him, but to defend the folkways, morays, social backwardness, of those who didn't even want him in office in the first place.
and i said him on purpose. a girl president isn't happening in our lifetime.
in a sense, we have lame duck elections because we only hope for our beliefs to be implemented to a certain extent. we elect the man in the middle, and generally that ends up being a man who stands for very little.
separation is more a legal issue and to be honest it probably helps the church the most, it allows the church to fire people based on beliefs, sexual orientation and other things that would not be grounds for loss of a job in most work places today
seperation of church and state is simply about making sure our government does not impose religion on our people, unlike the nations our founding fathers were trying to keep us from modeling. name one nation that imposed religion for the betterment of all its people. it always causes oppression.
Clause 1 of Amendment 1 only protects religious freedom from governmental intervention. It does not protect government from the influences of beliefs inspired by religion. Name one law made by congress or court decision that cannot in some way be related to some for of religion.
I think I relayed my thoughts much better in my "further thoughts..." post.
I would greatly apritiate your input on it. I will prolly post alot more stuff like this to prep for the papers I have in Applied Ethics, Criminal Justice, and Deviant Behavior...
I am still working on my scope of objectivism, I have only been politically active for about a year now and haven't really expanded my collection of "lenses" yet.
I do feel that the definition of religion that I have provided in the "further thoughts..." post does a decent job of stating that any system of beliefs/values can be defined as religion, in conclusion any descision that is made is influenced by religion.
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and i said him on purpose. a girl president isn't happening in our lifetime.
in a sense, we have lame duck elections because we only hope for our beliefs to be implemented to a certain extent. we elect the man in the middle, and generally that ends up being a man who stands for very little.
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I think I relayed my thoughts much better in my "further thoughts..." post.
I would greatly apritiate your input on it. I will prolly post alot more stuff like this to prep for the papers I have in Applied Ethics, Criminal Justice, and Deviant Behavior...
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I do feel that the definition of religion that I have provided in the "further thoughts..." post does a decent job of stating that any system of beliefs/values can be defined as religion, in conclusion any descision that is made is influenced by religion.
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