Comments on: Church and State http://www.philonoist.net/2005/08/06/church-and-state/ (noun, Rare.) A lover of learning. Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matthew http://www.philonoist.net/2005/08/06/church-and-state/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Matthew Sat, 06 Aug 2005 17:48:38 +0000 http://www.philonoist.net/?p=22#comment-9 <p>I like it, and I agree. Religions are designed to get groups of people to believe in themselves. Governments are designed to get groups of people to take care of themselves. Religion and government serve different human functions and suffer from a similiar flaw: faith versus blind faith. By seperating CHURCH from STATE in our country we can be assured that we won't have any religion nuts making decisions that ruin innocent people's lives in the name of ideas like God. But when our blind patriotism starts ruing innocent lives, while we argue about silly stuff like the word 'God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, we have to wonder if we are missing the point of seperating church from state.</p> <p>Besides, the Pledge should be updated anyway. No one gets it. Don't try to convince yourself otherwise haha</p> I like it, and I agree. Religions are designed to get groups of people to believe in themselves. Governments are designed to get groups of people to take care of themselves. Religion and government serve different human functions and suffer from a similiar flaw: faith versus blind faith. By seperating CHURCH from STATE in our country we can be assured that we won’t have any religion nuts making decisions that ruin innocent people’s lives in the name of ideas like God. But when our blind patriotism starts ruing innocent lives, while we argue about silly stuff like the word ‘God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance, we have to wonder if we are missing the point of seperating church from state.

Besides, the Pledge should be updated anyway. No one gets it. Don’t try to convince yourself otherwise haha

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