Separation of Church and State

Separation of church and state is a hard thing for people to grasp especially when it comes down to matters concerning gay rights, abortion, or evolution taught in schools. Many people of the Christian religion think those things are wrong to have in the United States. However is the question do you think it is wrong, or is the question does the government have the right over its people to restrict who you can marry, what can be taught, or what a mother does with her new-born? Everyone has a right to their own opinion but should the government be able to put restrictions such as those on its people? Isn’t that “Big Government”?

Some Christians will say that talk about opening up the world to abortions, gays, and evolution, is one more step towards “doom”. There are cases in bible when events such as when homosexuals are mixed into society to the point that God punishes the nation. However, as Christians this means you should be going to anti-gay protest riots where they storm out into the streets yelling for all gays to “face judgement”. “Only God judges me”. Only God.

How do you separate Church and State? By separating your opinions. You can have Christian morals and say abortions are wrong yet still support a bill allowing it, because the question is “does the government have the right to take that right away?”. You can have Christian morals and support gay rights. You can have Christian morals and still be open to change. You can have Christian morals and support living in a world of more civil liberties.

A Faith

“Obama is a Muslim”

During the last election season some very strong statements were said about what particular faith Obama believes in. Many critics of Obama were calling him a Muslim. They were saying that because of many of his political views contradicted Christian philosophies. Those in apposition, including Mr. Obama himself, defended him by telling the opposed that Obama is a Christian and does attend church. Also separation of Church and State have been major points in the debate over whether it should even be considered in a presidential debate.

“A friend of mine told me I was Jewish because I don’t wear a cross around my neck. My retort was ‘What good does it do to you to criticizes my faith? How does calling someone else a non-christian help you in your walk of faith?’”

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Deceptive God?

There are many parts of life that science wants to explain and that they strive hard too explain that “Godly” people just say, “God made it that way”. However, this retort of “God made it that way” isn’t the best answer. When science tries to find the origin of life, Christians may say to them “God made us.” However Science has many different theory’s that counter the latter. When Scientist try to explain how the Universe was formed they say that the Big Bang Theory is supported by the fact that the Universe is constantly expanding, not static, and Christians say, “God made the Universe like it says in Genesis, he made it to expand.” When a Scientist looks at things he tries to see a reason for the expansion. Do you think that God would purposefully create a situation that had a conclusion that goes against Christianity?

Darwin’s theory of Evolution through Natural selection says that life started out then evolved slowly over time to the current state it’s at now. Genesis says that God created Man from the dust of the earth and all that he made all of the animals too. Would God make man from almost the exact same genomes that other primates are made from? The Christians argument may be that… “We’ll what’s similar between a house in America, a house in England and a house in Japan? We’ll they’re all made out of wood but there from all over the world completely separate.” Some people hypothesize that God may have made humans from the same materials as primates. However this detracts from the view that God made humans from the dust of the earth. Another question to be raised is, ‘why would God make it look like we may have descended from other primates?’ The trail of evidence only makes it look more likely to the scientist, and others, that humans are of primate decent.

The origin of the Universe is an even more puzzling question that scientist are trying to figure out. However when the Big Bang theory was introduced in the scientific community, backing that the universe is slowly expanding supports an alternative theory to God’s word “In the Beginning God created the Heaven’s and the Earth.” Why would God make the universe continually expand when He knew that man would eventually start to believe in the Big Bang theory? Also, why would God give mankind written Words that contradict the universe He created? Surely this is not the case. Why would God try to deceive man into thinking something that contradicts the Bible? Perhaps the theory is true and God desired mankind to find it. Perhaps God wanted mankind to further their thoughts in the Bible by questioning the Bible itself.

If God is the creator and knows what is going to happen to man, then it would make sense to say that humans would question the world. However, if an individual begins to say that God knew that humans would question the universe and its origin, then he is beginning to say that God knew that humans were going to gain free will. But can really say that considering the order of events in Genesis, the creation (During which he decides to make everything expand) then Man was created (Much like monkeys) then the Fall of Man, you could say that God wouldn’t have known that these things would be deceptive because Man wasn’t given the liberty to examine. However if you don’t believe that God didn’t know that Man would question things. then it would mean He would have known what he was doing when he put the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden. Meaning we were suppose to have free will and question the world around us, inevitably leading to our discovery of different “anti” Christian Theories.

If God were a deceptive God, then He wouldn’t be the Loving God most Christians believe in. God isn’t deceptive and he is the controller of all things including the Universe. He also has the Power over all of what he created, the heavens and the earth and the creatures on it from the beginning of time. Why would God make a man out of near similar materials as other primates? Why wouldn’t God just make primates and turn them into Man slowly overtime? These question are of a series that make you question, not is there is a God, but rather the question what about God is what I think it is. It’s a question of whether you can except that Science and Religion not only coincide but support each other, low and behold we see a world were people agree and there is more peace and understanding then there was a day before a conclusion that is, God worthy.