Posted by jason305 at uhgatt10.uhc.com on February 19, 2004 at 14:16:45:
In Reply to: Here's a great article... posted by Ralphy ™ on February 19, 2004 at 11:25:44:
: I gotta say, my biggest beef against Bush... is simply that he's ruling a country by his religion.
Every president, be they born-again Christian, Catholic, Protestant or none of the above has ruled the country by their religion.
Separation of church and state is a dream.
We all have our own religious beliefs; in Christ, Buddah, Allah, or that there's no God or He is unknowable. We base our morals and values upon that belief. Believe the Bible is the Word of God and you'll base your decisions on it; don't believe in God at all and you'll base your decisions on your own opinion or feelings. But under it all is what you believe about God.
I'm not going to get into a creation/evolution debate, but look under the science. People scream that we should only teach evolution as fact because teaching anything else is teaching religion. However, that means teaching children of all faiths that life appeared without God. That IS, by very definition, teaching religion.
It is impossible to truly separate religion from anyone. Even if you remove God, then you are left with atheism or secular humanism. Both of which are legally defined by the Supreme Court as a religion.