Posted: Feb 22, 2012 10:31 am
Lion, how exactly does one impose church/state separation on personal beliefs?
Personal beliefs are personal, and unaffected by anything imposed short of brainwashing or drugs.
It is only specifically NON-personal aspects of belief, the aspects that affect others, that can be separated by a church/state ruling.
Hence the separation of church/state, INCREASES freedom of personal pursuit of belief by specifically NOT imposing the structures of specific belief outside a setting where they they are voluntary.
Personal beliefs are personal, and unaffected by anything imposed short of brainwashing or drugs.
It is only specifically NON-personal aspects of belief, the aspects that affect others, that can be separated by a church/state ruling.
Hence the separation of church/state, INCREASES freedom of personal pursuit of belief by specifically NOT imposing the structures of specific belief outside a setting where they they are voluntary.