This article is mostly talking about religion and how it connects with the government. It begins by talking about how religion connected with government when the United States first began. It says that the Constitution never mentions God directly and only refers to him as The "Lord." Also, it mentions that although The Constitution never mentions it, The Declaration of Independence does on numerous occasions. A lot of people in those times disagreed on the topic of religion and government. People argued over whether or not religion should be included in The Constitution. It talks about how Thomas Jefferson said that there should be a "wall of separation of church state." he obviously thought that religion should take no part of government and the decisions it made. The article then refers to numerous court cases that have occurred because of religion and it affecting decisions in government. For the most part, religion has been kept out of most decisions, but people continue, and will always, argue over religion because of how controversial a topic it is.
"freedom of religion." American History. ABC-CLIO, 2010. Web. 28 Jan. 2010.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Freedom of Religion
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I thought that it was interesting that your article talked about how religion completly connects with government.I liked how you talked about the comparison of the consitution and how it doesnt refer to god directly but in the declaration of independence it does. I agree with what Thomas Jefferson says about, "wall of seperation of church state" because i agree with him. Government shouldnt get involved with religion
I think that I read this article too and it discussed a lot about how religion should not be involved in governing our country and how we should not be prevented or forced to believe anything. I also agree that religion is always going to be and has been a big controversy, but why is it always such a controversy?
It's such a controversy because so many people have completely different views on it and it causes arguments. Everybody has strong feelings on their own religion and they want it to be known how they feel and argue for their beliefs.
Jimmy you should specify events in your entries. Find examples of disagreement in religon, church and state, and court cases. If you find examples you should come back here and implment them. Church vs. State seems like a great way to take the topic. It has been around for a long time but many people, icluding me, do not know much about it. That would be a very interesting project.
Jimmy,
I'm concerned by your lack of posts here and not sure what you've been doing with your time during all of the double periods we've spent in the labs. All you have here is one post about one article and further, that post is lacking significant detail. Where are other articles? Where is your primary source? You need to do a lot more to be on pace with the project that we are engaged in.
GET TO WORK!
Mr. Kramer
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