Religion was a sore subject back when our Founding Fathers authored the Bill of Rights. It remains so today. The first part of the first amendment reads: "Congress shall make no laws respecting the establishment of religion , or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Considering that many who came to America came here to escape persecution because of their beliefs, it was sensible of them to include the establishment clause. They wanted to ensure that no ONE religion was set above others and to ensure that citizens were free to worship as they chose. That's why they said NO Laws could be made to establish a state religion or prevent citizens freedom to worship as they wanted.
What makes this scary today is that we now have several Republican candidates who are saying that Christianity needs to be our state religion. Theocracy Alert! Does this alarm you? It should. Take a look at what they are proposing.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2015/05/republicans-call-for-christianity-as-official-religion-of-us/
It is hard to believe, but, a majority of Republicans surveyed believe in establishing Christianity as the state religion. http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/25/57-republicans-dismantle-constitution-christianity-national-religion.html "Dominionism calls for imposing a theocracy in America where Christianity is declared the official religion, and the nation is governed by “Biblical law”.
I don't know about you, but, I don't want to live in a country where one group of people gets to decide what is right and best for all other peoples.
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