Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides

[Matty]

I definitely can see your side when it comes to the mixing of politics and faith. As history has shown us, a few misguided and arogant political leaders, proclaiming their divinity has had disastorous concenquences. However, I believe that the government is a representitive of the people it serves. Majority as well as minority. If 85% of Americans are in one way or another Chritian in faith, why should the government that serves those persons, their interests and morals, be completely devoid of said religious faith? Separation of church and state, as stated in the U.S Constitution, is all to often misrepresnted and taken out of context. The founding fathers did not want a "Godless", atheist government. They did however relize, because of the rule of the Church of England, that there should not be a state sponsored\founded church. Faith should not be forced on the public.
Good thread though.

These are good points. One comment I would make is that not all Christians necessarily want religion in their government. I think that is why there are pro-life movements, etc. I think the founding fathers could not possibly have envisioned the world we live in today and therefore I'm not sure how they would react.

[ntwrk]

These are good points. One comment I would make is that not all Christians necessarily want religion in their government. I think that is why there are pro-life movements, etc. I think the founding fathers could not possibly have envisioned the world we live in today and therefore I'm not sure how they would react.

This is true. In more ways than at first percieved. How would of our founding fathers react if in their time, some woman came out and said that she wanted to kill her unborn child because she "didn't want it"? You can bet they'd flip!
How would our founding fathers react in their time if someone proposed to make witchcraft (Wicca) a recognized and protected religion under the U.S Constitution? They would burn that fukker at the stake.
There are many, many things that our society, through desensitization, has become complacant with. Such things as stated above are aborations of our wayward society. Such things like those stated above are not in any way, shape, or form of what our founding fathers had in mind when they wrote and endorsed the U.S Constitution.