On the Separation of Church and State

There are myriad viewpoints on social morality citizens may take, often applying said subjective moral princples without Kant's categorical imperative guiding their way. Amongst those political opinions one of the occasional most controversial is the separation of church and state.

Separation of church and state is a two-edged blade. The advantage may go to either element across history from the Moslem sword to the evil politicians of nefarious plundering raids.

Little junior sitting in his desk may be indoctrinated by the state religion of atheist loyalty to a godless phenomenalism. He may be taught a philosophical sum over histories called Darwin's Gambit-"a series of ordinal permutations with random prime number permutations leading through functions of base pairs and local clumps of space atoms from extra-micro dimensions generating sinusoidal, corkscrew wave patterns tapering off to subtle yet interesting infinities.

Proliferation of infinities in permutating functions is a technique to let the design of unlimited increase be an implicit element unfunded by energy. Patterns are illimitable, energy and mass are not.

We were led to believe the perspective of origins evolving through base pair constructions providing redundant temporal lines of computation.

So we may ask, is this so bad? What if teachers lead in bowing to Mecca a few times per day, or worship Wall Street, leading economic indicators or the global warming thermometer at Times Square next to the Atomic Detonation Clock (if such existed)?

Wouldn't it be more economical political theorists may ask, if the state and religions consolidated and made the President the head of The Church of Good and Righteous Subjects that Do Not Hate?

Already the U.S. Government has required that churches be non-profit to receive exempt tax status. So we see that the federal budget itself is apposite for its own requirements for churches to lose money. The separation of church and state in some respects may not be far enough. If churches must lose money then members cannot be shareholders and receive dividends, and some probably could use it. As it is the proplits are concentrated at the top in church and state hierarchies.

In some respects the people that complain about the separation of church and state may not be aware of world political history sufficiently to regard the wisdom in the policy.

Religions co-opted by state rulers become a tool for state repression of religious liberty. That can develop positively and negatively as in the official state approved churches of Nazi Germany, Communist China, the Byzantine Empire, The Abbasid Caliphate, The Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran and the atheism of the communist party in the Soviet Union.

Sure we know that religions are sometimes used by the corrupt to advance their financial interests disingenuously and that politics is too often exploited to give an unjust advantage to special interests to the disadvantage of honest people. The corruption of public interests and social justice may be synergetically enhanced by the combining of church and state under one roof or big dome of political power.

Yes, many of us still wish to live the moral life. Some of us do not wish to strive for the technical virtue of Socrates or the President of the World Bank, but just a little less than that-good enough. On the other hand, we may believe that many of our brethren are unscrupulous cheaters on all good things pretending even in church. We believe them dishonest even in government and when shouting out in support of public depravity. Well, these are perhaps reasons then to compartmentalize the moral mayhem and implement damage control measures like separation of church and state. The god emperor of Dune won't find a place in our backyard!

Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemene knew when the Prince of this World was on the way to arrest him. It is not in the Christian's interest to bring the Prince of the World into a position of church leadership.