Separation of church and state

was in a location shared with multiple other monuments that show an extensive Texas history. “The Von Orden Court emphasized the passive nature of the monument (i.e., that it was a relatively small display located on the 22 acre grounds of the Texas State Capitol along with 17 other monuments and 21 historical markers), and focused its analysis on the nature of the exhibit and the history of government recognition of religious symbolism in America” The McCreary case differed in that the other…

The Texas state capitol’s 22 acres were dedicated on May 16, 1888. Since then, at least 17 monuments and statues have been placed on the capitol grounds, the first of which being placed in 1891. Early in 1961, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, a non-profit organization that donates to diabetes, cancer, and children’s funds, among other charities, gave a granite monument of the Ten Commandments, which was about six-feet high and three-and-a-half feet wide, to the state. In accepting the monument,…

and classrooms of the Michigan schools, the Court of Appeals of Michigan declared: "Vonnegut's literary dwellings on war, religion, death, Christ, God, government, politics, and any other subject should be as welcome in the public schools of this state as those of Machiavelli, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Melville, Lenin, Joseph McCarthy, or Walt Disney. The students of Michigan are free to make of Slaughterhouse-Five what they will."” (ALA.org) The above case was taken from the ALA.org website which…

The atheist Christopher Hitchens in his book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything throws down the gauntlet, defaming the moralist worldview as, “The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.” Contrasting, Francis Beckwith’s observation in his work, Politics for Christians: Statecraft as Soulcraft that scientism’s post modernism worldview demands a counterbalance of religious moralism in public policy. In…

injustice policies in a society, and it is logic a person will act out of his/her values. Values mostly comes from religion. To make a voice strong, as Christians, it is better to speak out as community, as a church. By looking a future with hope (death and resurrection of Jesus), the church could judge the society, and its mission could be free to human being and become part of the history by co-creating with the Lord a new…

The mix of religion and state have always been a problem it the United States. I think that it should be completely separate, because it only causes problems between two groups of people. Church in schools has caused problems for many years and probably many more years to come. In the case of Wisconsin vs Yoder the young Amish men were fighting because their religion made them live out of the world from ages 14-16, the school out weighed the individual rights. An Arkansas law banning teaching…

Growing up religion has always been a very diverse topic throughout the nation. There are a tremendous number of different religions, beliefs, and opinions that someone cannot just simply satisfy everyone’s outlook. Throughout time the wide number of differences is not only spreading through our nations, but also in our school systems. In the past, schools have always been extremely positive towards religious beliefs in school, but now because of many diverse changes their opinions do not matter…

a unique identity of a Christian nation? The main three reasons why America is not founded as a Christian nation and should not be considered as a Christian nation is for those reasons that the text of the constitution does not say that the United States is a Christian nation. Second, in the first Amendment it applies to respecting religious and therefore it does not apply to only Christianity. And third, conservative pastors whining well into the nineteenth century. Over all how can we all as…

US CITIZENS US citizens should be aware of their responsibilities as a citizen. A US citizen’s political, religious, and economic freedoms are accompanied by the responsibility of active civic participation at the individual, community, state, and national levels. If citizens are active in their civic participation they are helping themselves. Citizens should know that one vote can make a big difference. If they are not active they are affecting their political, religious, and economic freedoms…

Our nation was founded on the belief “that all men are… endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”, an idea that was equally shared by the Framers of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence from England. By definition unalienable means no one can be deprived of or have those rights taken away. It was a life-long endowment granted by a High Authority and since such rights were not given by men, no one, not even governments, could take them away. The First Amendment…