Church+&+State


 * = 1 ||= 9-13-10 || Define and describe your topic as an ethical issue and identify the controversies and dilemmas within the issue. Seek to do general background reading to understand the main issues inherent in your topic.Identify at least two opposing positions often taken on your ethical issue, and explain two to three main arguments for each side. ||

My ethical issue has the burden of three legal, spiritual an social consequences for the separation of church an state. First the legal issue is with the states government butting heads with church goers trying to insert both themselves an the church into government roles an decisions that affect many peoples everyday life. Also the more radical churchs an religious organization frequently disobey the constitution against letting the church having government control over state issues. The only consequences given to this is that the state both reminds an informs the same metaphor of separation of church an state. Second


 * = 2 ||= 9-20-10 || BIG PICTURE: MAIN RULES AND CONSEQUENCES. Describe the main teachings of **Judaism** pertinent to your issue. What are the consequences (legal, social, spiritual) when the teachings are not followed? In other words, I'm asking you to investigate whether your ethical issue is considered a public matter, with public, legal, and social consequences, or is it considered a spiritual or personal matter, with more private consequences affecting personal relationships and spiritual matters. ||

In the u.s there is the separation between for state and church. The problem with religion interfering with the state by some consider to be a benefit to the people but even tho it does occur it really shouldn't. For example the constitution says that Congress shall make no law respecting establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise. Which means that laws that are past by the government limited to not interfering with religion. Including that beliefs of religion do not dominate the government system. But the most common use of the metaphor of state an church separation is that for the church to stay out of there business.


 * = 9-27-10 || FINE PRINT: DIVERSITY AND NUANCE. Are there different rules for different people/sects within **Judaism** regarding your ethical issue? What about differences in the way consequences are applied? ||

There are many students of American Jewish life who believe that the struggle to expand separation of church and state in America is one of the greatest contributions Jews have rendered to the enlargement of American freedom. Only in America have Jews been free to pursue thier faith and to organize their communal lives, equal under law and in practice, without government interference. In all America through its constitution created a system of religious liberty that has proved to be generally fair and effective, one that Jews wish to preserve. Jews have learned through history that both religion and the state flourish best when they are separate.


 * = 10-4-10 || BIG PICTURE: MAIN RULES AND CONSEQUENCES. Describe the main teachings of **Christianity** pertinent to your issue. What are the consequences (legal, social, spiritual) when the teachings are not followed? In other words, I'm asking you to investigate whether your ethical issue is considered a public matter, with public, legal, and social consequences, or is it considered a spiritual or personal matter, with more private consequences affecting personal relationships and spiritual matters. ||

The prevailing idea today is that Bible-believing politicians must check their biblical convictions at the door and not allow them to influence policy decisions. The reason many have come to expect Christian beliefs to be kept under lock and key in the public forum is because men do not like what the Bible teaches. So, they tell us others it is okay to be a Christian in politics, as long as you do not allow your Bible beliefs to inform your politics. it is deemed acceptable to be influenced by feminism, Darwinism, pluralism, post-modernism, multi-culturalism, humanism, paganism, etc., but it is intolerable for public policy to be influenced by Christian theism. This is a far cry from the founding fathers, who believed that the freedoms and constitutional government they set up in America could only work with a Bible-believing people.


 * = 5 ||= 10-18-10 || FINE PRINT: DIVERSITY AND NUANCE. Are there different rules for different people/sects within **Christianity** regarding your ethical issue? What about differences in the way consequences are applied? **This week, concentrate on the similarities and differences between Catholics and Protestants on your topic.** ||