Hillsboro Drawings

For my project, I chose to answer the question: “Can a balance exist in the separation of church and state?” Each of the drawings I chose to create in order to answer the question are quite similar, but both vary in different ways. The Hillsboro drawing depicts a balance scale with each side of the balance holding a different item. The left side of the balance depicts a nondescript government building, which is seated on a fairly large container that is filled with quotes from the book. These quotes support the governmental side of the balance in the book because each one displays qualities like objectivity or an aspect of how the judicial system operates. On the other side of the balance there is a cross which is situated in an even larger …show more content…
This simple but key feature is the most crucial of the whole drawing, it answers the question by saying there is no balance, since religion is heavier on the balance that directly relates to how religion played a heavier role in the book than government. The second drawing is labeled ISIS, as it is a current issue in the world, so I chose to use the group as my current event. The images in this drawing are very similar to the images in the first; however there are some slight but key differences. The first difference is the symbol that is resting in the religion container. The symbol is the crescent moon and star which represents the Islamic faith, differing from the cross which represented Christianity. The second difference is the container size, on the first drawing the containers were fairly similar in size, but religion was larger. In this drawing however, the government container I minuscule compared to the religion one. This is due to the fact that nearly all of ISIS’s government is derived from religious practice. This is also displayed in the number of quotes in each container; the government side has a measly one quote, while the religion side has