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Bigotry rules in the USA : Comments
By Walt Brasch, published 2/7/2008The US Constitution states: 'No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States'.
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This article illustrates how a firm separation between religion and the state is essential. While there are obvious flaws in the American system, we can see the disasterous results in the Middle-East when the separation between the two collapses.
Separation between religion and the state is also good for religion. No Christian would want the government of the day appointing bishops. That happened, for example, in pre-1789 France. And no thinking Christian would want to see Jews or other adherents of minority religions persecuted by state authorities. Nor would they want to see jobs earmarked for those of a particular religion unless we are talking about jobs where adherence is an essential requirement (being a priest, for instance).
The US Presidency should not be faith-based. We're talking about 2008 America not Tsarist Russia.