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<blockquote data-quote="Stalin-ohaulic" data-source="post: 6986806" data-attributes="member: 585517">I didn&#039;t read the thread, but the founders created this so that the government they were creating could not be ruled by the church. Had they had just a little more foresight, they could have eliminated special interest groups and lobbyists altogether. Instead they merely eliminated the church as a lobbyist. Up until the late 1900&#039;s it was still acceptable to have a religious class in public school. From this we can apply simple logic and know what the original intent actually was. There are a lot of people with ulterior motives that thrive on bastardizing laws by &quot;interpreting&quot; them in ways that suit aforementioned motives. These people have contorted our Seperation of Church and State to now mean something totally different than it was originally intended for. Whether their motives are purely political or anti-religious or both it does not matter. The result is the same.I would also contend that If you do not believe in an organized religion, you still believe in religion. Science is a religion. How many theories do people believe in that cannot be proved? LOTS. I&#039;m not saying science is a bad thing. It&#039;s a good thing when used correctly, but like anything else it can be manipulated for other purposes. Things like &quot;scientific consensus&quot; are a bastardization of the scientific method and the scientific community altogether, yet the conclusions they come to are accepted without question by those who claim to be mentally superior to the religious community.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stalin-ohaulic, post: 6986806, member: 585517"] I didn't read the thread, but the founders created this so that the government they were creating could not be ruled by the church. Had they had just a little more foresight, they could have eliminated special interest groups and lobbyists altogether. Instead they merely eliminated the church as a lobbyist. Up until the late 1900's it was still acceptable to have a religious class in public school. From this we can apply simple logic and know what the original intent actually was. There are a lot of people with ulterior motives that thrive on bastardizing laws by "interpreting" them in ways that suit aforementioned motives. These people have contorted our Seperation of Church and State to now mean something totally different than it was originally intended for. Whether their motives are purely political or anti-religious or both it does not matter. The result is the same. I would also contend that If you do not believe in an organized religion, you still believe in religion. Science is a religion. How many theories do people believe in that cannot be proved? LOTS. I'm not saying science is a bad thing. It's a good thing when used correctly, but like anything else it can be manipulated for other purposes. Things like "scientific consensus" are a bastardization of the scientific method and the scientific community altogether, yet the conclusions they come to are accepted without question by those who claim to be mentally superior to the religious community. [/QUOTE]

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