01-17-2020, 03:16 PM
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longing
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 2,680
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Re: Religion is government
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Originally Posted by MixMasterLar
is more protecting religions from the government persecuting or even embracing/abusing the church; then the amendment follows it up with "Also while you're at it just don't fuck with what people say and do if it doesn't involve violence". The "Separation of Church and State" bit is credited to Thomas Jefferson who reportedly used the catch phrase to hype it's inclusion.
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That makes sense, as a canuck my impression has always been thinking that it meant "we shouldn't factor in religious things when we make rules and changes to the government etc", but I guess it makes sense that its that the government shouldn't mess with religion... idk that seems pretty wonky to me not gonna lie
Even so though, if that is the case, then the converse should also be true, like if state → religion, then religion → state should also be the case (→ meaning affecting or influencing them)
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