Separation of Church and State

Separation of Church and State is a catch phrase for any social issue that seems to have less groundings in political correctness, but moreso in moral ideals.

Websters defines the three buzz words as follows

Separation - an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated; a place, line, or point of parting

Church -a building for public Christian worship; the Christian faith; a place of public worship of a non-Christian religion

State - the body politic as organized for civil rule and government; the operations or activities of a central civil government

And now to briefly list the issues that fall into this catalog of issues:

Gay marriage
Abortion
Religion in Public Schools
"In God We Trust" on currency

Just a few issues of many others. There's a lot of overlap on some, and a lot of people don't realize a lot of those other problems that may be considered by some to be discrimination against atheists.

I'm not going to harp about gay marriage, not going to list the reasons I feel abortions should be legal, not going to advocate making set curricula for public schools to eliminate discussion on Creationism/Intelligent Design/Evolution in any way shape or form, or to demand a recall of all currency and a reprinting of every bill and coin in the country. I'm here to discuss the reason behind the concept, the origins in the most basic of sense, and why we'll never get rid of it under the current constitution.

Something that people have to remember from 5th grade history is that the Puritans came over to the new world for religious freedom. They were an extremist sect of the Protestant church who were being persecuted by the Church of England. When the King has one religion, you better agree or else. But they decided that they didn't want to and took the steps to make a change in their lives, despite the risks because they were unhappy. (What a concept America...) These were the ancestors of our founders, of the people who decided that they were royally pissed off enough at the motherland to call up the people that England hated the most and ask them to help them fight off the Red Coats and finally win their independence and create their own country free of monarchy. So the point of that is, the United States were founded by a group of people with religious singularity.

So what does that mean? There's no concept of separation or unification there, right? Wrong.

By having like minded people, they were bound to have issues arise where people would agree on the moral code as to which they would deal with those issues. Oh, Billy stole Mary's goat? Thou shalt not steal Billy. God said so. Billy gets put in jail. End of story. Now most people think stealing is wrong. But that's because we've learned that it's wrong because social contract says that. But where did the social contract get a majority of its foundation? Religion. A separation of church and state is essentially impossible right now because we have set a majority of our laws and social rules in alignment with religious views. When you combine all these things together, it sets a precedent for future generations and lawmakers to look to long set traditional guidelines for their personal moral codes, thus affecting modern issues like gay marriage and abortion that never came around during ancient times.

It may never be legal for me to marry my Prince Charming and it may never become politically and ethically sound for a girl to get an abortion if she feels like she can't care for the child. At least under the current ideas. We're just a little under 225 years old and we're already running our country into a social hole. Who would have thought that a concept as amazing and widespread and *gasp* progressive as universal healthcare would have seemed so dangerous to many people? We're so afraid of communism and socialism that McCarthyism is becoming a whole new disaster in a new time and it's dangerous. We're terrified of Hitler and fascism, but we're headed that path. If we want to continue as a democracy, we need to move more left in our political climate or we're going to become the next great fascist country and we're gonna be fucked.

Time for a Revolution.