Religion, Government Line Blurry For Americans

[struggle4progress]

Polling Data

Do you think the Bush administration’s policies fully support the principle of separation of church and state, or do you think the administration’s policies sometimes blur the lines by mixing religion with government, or do you think the Bush administration’s policies do not support the separation of church and state at all?

Support 25%
Blur 44%
Do not support 19%
Don’t know 12%

Source: Los Angeles Times
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,033 American adults, conducted from Jan. 15 to Jan. 17, 2004. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

http://www.cpod.ca/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=5666

[purduejake]

1. It's not a democracy, but a theocracy...

People are starting to realize that, but why haven't they learned their lesson from WWII when Hitler used religion to rule?

[Az]

2. Those that do not see the line are often not those affected by such things

Simply put the oppressors are seldom aware of their oppression.

The other problem is that the social disruption that gave the founding fathers cause to include the notion of church state seperation have long been absent to the extreme they once were present. This is simply because of the wall of seperation keeping the peace.

Thus the believers get to thinking, well its not so bad is it? I mean its just some aid to a good cause. Its just a few words here and there. Whats the big deal?

The big deal is that trouble follows. Such things are divisive. And divisiveness is directly opposed to the notion of a more perfect union. Nothing could be more diametrically opposed to the principal of this nation that dividing the people in some way. You make those that do not agree with your beliefs second class citizens and they will stop playing by the rules. Its that simple.