Friday, August 18, 2006

Church and state

This is a very good point:

As a person of faith, I have a further objection to the entanglement of church and state. It ultimately trivializes the faith because it suggests that religion needs the support of the state for legitimacy. When you fetishize the Ten Commandments or demand a ritualized, formal prayer in school or on public occasions, you diminish the faith itself.

-- Randall Balmer


I found the above on Opinionated Old Fart.

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