Stop Trying to Separate Church and State!

It is not possible to take the Church out of the State, but many people in the in the modern world we have been pretending that it is. Because there are very few homogeneous, traditional, people groups left in the world today, the melting pot that has become the world is struggling with trying to legislate for many different people with completely different belief systems. Because people are afraid to impose their morals on others, and more importantly, because people don’t want other people’s morals imposed on THEM, the popular solution has been freedom of religion.

Freedom of religion has seemed to many to be the silver bullet which solves the conundrum of trying to rule over multiple, and often completely opposing, belief systems. It seemed to many that simply allowing anybody to practice any religion they so desire within a particular locality, that all people will be able to then get along without discrimination. However, people quickly found out that once a person who holds a particular belief system gets into office, that person will naturally use their belief system to write laws. People found out that rulers were writing laws that they did not agree with morally, so the idea of a separation of Church and State came into being.

The idea that the Church should not meddle in State affairs is an old one, dating back hundreds of years to the Protestant Reformation, and it is no less relevant today than it was then. During the reformation, people didn’t want the Catholic Church to inform the State regarding laws because those laws would be opposed to the Protestants, thus the only solution was a separation of the Church from the State. Today, there are many, many more protesting factions than ever, so many more people today want the Church separated from the State. However, this is not only impossible, but totally unnatural.