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Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: Church vs State (??) - why should we?
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Date: Sat, 5-Nov-83 12:52:21 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  5 12:52:21 1983
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We sould also remember the historical reasons for our almost paranoid
seperation of church and state.  I don't mean paranoid in a negative
state, I'm really remembering the phrase from a foriegn friend of mine
who said he thought it was alittle strange until he studied some US
history.

A good many of the original settlers of this land came to the
americas because of state oppression of religion in europe at the time.
Having found a homeland "of their own", they wanted to make sure that
their children (us) would not have the same problem.  Of course
not allowing any state interference with religion may be called 
overkill but is only overkill when the government is TOTALLY trustworthy
as compared with the will of the peopled.  It doesn't hurt to allow
for future errors - or a future wherein there are so many people and the
government is so big that the people can't always know what the 
government is doing at all.

I hope this obversation is not to far off the point.
-- 
Jeff Offutt
School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA
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