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Should the Church and the State remain seperate
May 26th 2010 14:16
Should the church and the state remain seperate?
That is an interesting question to think about. A lot of countries allows their dominate religion to also influence the legal structure of their goverment, others allow religion to have very little influence. This is disregards to whether they are a religious state or not.
Iran and Afghanistan for example, both declare themselves as a Islamic state, where Trukish on the other hand declare themselves to be a none religous state and insist that the state and the church should remain seperate and women are not to allow to wear the Muslim head cover in university.
In the US and Asutralia for example, despite the fact we are not religious state, we still see religion having a certain level of influence over the legal system or how some people want to see the system function.
For example, in both the US and Australia the President and Prime Minister are sworn into office on a Bible and in court we swear that we say "The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." on a Bible also, despite the fact we are not religious state.
Homophobia in the US especially, want to pass law to illgalize homosexaulity, because they believe it is a sin according to Christianity (Personally, I highly doubt it qualify as a sin in Christianlity) This is despite the fact the United States is not a Catholic state or a religous state of some form.
Taiwan and Trukish are probably two state where the state and the church are successfully seperated, base on my knowledge.
At Taiwan, for example the President is sworn into office upon the constitute rather then on a religous menu of some form and despite the fact Buddhism is the dominate religion, it have no effect, on the govermenance of the state. However, that might also be the result of the fact that Taiwan is a typical post modern cuntry, which have little regards to conservative values.
Turkish base on my knowledge, insist that the state and relgion must be seperated and disallow religions to have influence over the state.and base on my knowledge, although Muslim is the dominate religion in Turkish, Turkish doesn't allow female university student ot wear Muslim head scarf on university campus, as a result of the insisting for state and religion to remain sperate.
So, the question here is, should the state and the church remain 100% seperate?
That is an interesting question to think about. A lot of countries allows their dominate religion to also influence the legal structure of their goverment, others allow religion to have very little influence. This is disregards to whether they are a religious state or not.
In the US and Asutralia for example, despite the fact we are not religious state, we still see religion having a certain level of influence over the legal system or how some people want to see the system function.
For example, in both the US and Australia the President and Prime Minister are sworn into office on a Bible and in court we swear that we say "The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." on a Bible also, despite the fact we are not religious state.
Homophobia in the US especially, want to pass law to illgalize homosexaulity, because they believe it is a sin according to Christianity (Personally, I highly doubt it qualify as a sin in Christianlity) This is despite the fact the United States is not a Catholic state or a religous state of some form.
Taiwan and Trukish are probably two state where the state and the church are successfully seperated, base on my knowledge.
At Taiwan, for example the President is sworn into office upon the constitute rather then on a religous menu of some form and despite the fact Buddhism is the dominate religion, it have no effect, on the govermenance of the state. However, that might also be the result of the fact that Taiwan is a typical post modern cuntry, which have little regards to conservative values.
Turkish base on my knowledge, insist that the state and relgion must be seperated and disallow religions to have influence over the state.and base on my knowledge, although Muslim is the dominate religion in Turkish, Turkish doesn't allow female university student ot wear Muslim head scarf on university campus, as a result of the insisting for state and religion to remain sperate.
So, the question here is, should the state and the church remain 100% seperate?
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