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US Church and State - Now vs. 1600s

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What wrote:To quote my Government teacher (havent looked it up myself), Sepreation of Church and state is neither mentioned nor desceribed anywhere in the United States Constituion.

Well thats that line that says the gov't can't support a peticular religious group nor hinder it. The essay is going to have the opinion that Church and State should be seperated.

Thanks for the links GoPunchRocks

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no problem, if you want a good reason they should be seperate - talk about the Salem witch Trials. The people were blinded by their religion cause a theocracy belives in "guilty until proven innocent".

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GoPunchRocks wrote:no problem, if you want a good reason they should be seperate - talk about the Salem witch Trials. The people were blinded by their religion cause a theocracy belives in "guilty until proven innocent".

Thanks for the idea. I think I started planning my essay incorrectly, however. I'm supposed to analyze the Puritans and discuss how present day beliefs have changed our opinion on their theocray, not compare it to modern day seperation of church and state necessarily.

Blarrg, I hate analyzing :(

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thats a bit easier i think. We obviously can see that their system wass flawed and the perfect evidence of this was the witch trials. If you want my reasoning on why we still are a theocracy, i can give some very good detail supporting my argument.

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are we going back to the 'interpretatoin of the constitution' thread? haha
i just wanna kno how the great awakening affected separation of church and state. the only thing i got is that post-awakening, church became less of a social thing.

tangents anyone?

get busy livin' or get busy dyin'
if the #13 is unlucky, then 12 & 14 are guilty by association :P

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