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[Happy Monkey]

Originally posted by mrnoodle
At any rate, when you have a nation of people with religious beliefs of one flavor or another, those beliefs are going to play a role in public policy. I side with the people who think that "separation of church and state" was intended to prevent the govt. from setting up a state religion. All of our laws either have roots in the judeo-christian ethic, or are mirrored by similar concepts from that ethic, whether or not they were implemented with a religious intent.

This is absolutely untrue. Is far as I can tell, only the vice laws and certain aspects of common law have any judeo-christian influence. The vast majority of our laws couldn't have been conceived of centuries ago, much less millennia. And actually, most of the laws that do coincide with judeo-christian values are pretty common to most human civilizations. Also remember, Christianity originally had a problem with interest-bearing loans, which is the foundation of the US economy. (This is why Jews got the "shylock" stereotype. Not being Christian, they were allowed to make interest-bearing loans, and disallowed from just about everything else)

The notion of an American government that is completely devoid of any religious influence is a myth. In fact, a pure democracy would be impossible to attain. Religion are us, we is religion.

A pure democracy is exactly equivalent to pure communism - a horror. Living in a land of majority rules, with no protection for minority rights and opinions would be the death of progress.