Final Project

I like our topic. Some people are pretty hardcore about their beliefs about the seperation of church and state... one way or another... and a few are somewhere in the middle. BUT, unlike the abortion issue... I've found that with this discussion you can sometimes find middle ground with others.

Anyways... I'd have to say I'm agnostic, leaning towards atheism. I believe that there MIGHT be a god... but I'm not too fond of religion. All religion does is start wars and devides human beings, when we should all be united. Now, I don't feel that my beliefs should be imposed on other people... the same way that I'm not going to force someone else to question the existance of a "higher power."

One can be spiritual without being religious, per-se. Few things piss me off in the world more than people who come up to you and talk to you and tell you that you have to be "born again," and "baptized with the spirit." Now I understand that some religions call for people to "spread the word of god" ...but I think thats extremely annoying and offensive. I hate being preached to. My issue with this is... this is a country unlike any other in the world. We don't have 2 or 3 ethnic groups, we have HUNDREDS of different cultures... all on one land... and you can't possibly be tollerant of every perspective without removing religion from public spaces.

Okay... I could go on more, as usual, but I wont.

I'm at the public library and can't save a picture to the desktop to post it here... so I have a Wikipedia link about the history of the seperation of church and state in the United States. Wiki itself isn't credible, BUT... at the bottom of the page there are a bunch of citations where you can find the original sources of information.

-John

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States