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Originally Posted by GDwarf
FoV, separation of church and state means exactly what it sounds like, religion should have no impact on what a government does.
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YOu have to get your defintions right GD. "The Church" is not the same as "religion". The Church is an institution, and seperation of churhc and state means that the Government can not run the church and the church can not run the government. They are seperate institutions.
"Religion" on the other hand is a worldveiw. If you eleceted a humanitarian into govenrment you'd expect that person's world veiw to effect choices. Your worldveiw effects how you live and what choices you make. And so religion ha s a HUGE impact on what the government does. This is called DEMOCRACY.
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Originally Posted by The Great Panda
Sadly, politics and religion aren't as...sweet-natured, I guess you could say, as country and knitting clubs. What I was getting at is that, should they be given political power, it'll only be a matter of time before there's a "my religion is the right one, everyone else fails" occurance and rising enmity between the faiths.
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That shouldn't and rarely happens. Government has a diffent task than a church. A religious person will most likely defend tolleraton for his religion, not force it on others.