• aelwero@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The separation of church and state doesn’t require a separation of faith and state. Separation of faith and state wasn’t Jeffersons point…

    The house comes to consensus on all sorts of shit, often based on faith, while being composed of members of a variety of churches. Been that way for centuries, and can continue to be that way. The first amendment doesn’t prohibit government from making laws based on faith or faith based values. It prohibits government from making laws respective to a church.

    Which is all to say that Johnson bringing a bible to the dais is questionable, and boeberts assertion that the church should direct the state is flat out wrong.

    Government can have faith and religion. It’s always had faith and religion. Jefferson didn’t advocate that congress be staffed by atheists, he advocated that it be staffed by people of any faith or religion, because the first amendment says exactly that. That was his point…