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| | State religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | State churches or religions are examples of the official or government-sanctioned establishment of religion. | | | The Church of Ireland was disestablished in 1869 and the Church of England was disestablished in Wales in 1920, becoming the Church in Wales. | | | Increasingly, sociologists of religion are using the concept of monopolies in economics as an analogy for state churches. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_church
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Separation of church & state |
| | The separation of church and state is related to freedom of religion, but the two concepts are different and one should not infer hastily that countries with a state church do not necessarily have freedom of religion, nor should one infer that a country without a state church necessarily enjoys freedom of religion. | | | The Church of Scotland is Presbyterian while the Church of England is Anglican. | | | The opposite end of the spectrum from secularism is a theocracy, in which the state and state religion are inseperable, and the rule of law is based on interpretation of a religious texts such as the Bible or the Qur'an. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/S/SE/SEP/Separation_of_church_and_state
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| | State Church Of The Roman Empire |
| | Arius was a parish priest, the pastor of Baucalis Church in Alexandria. | | | And in one, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. | | | Athanasius wrote to the churches in his diocese an Easter letter which is now regarded as the first authoritative statement of the canon of the New Testament. |
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http://www.bswett.com/1998-05Church300.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: State and Church |
| | Due worship, in the present economy, is that of the religion of Christ, entrusted to the care of the Church. | | | The State must also protect the Church in the exercise of her functions, for the reason that the State is bound to protect all the rights of its citizens, and among these their religious rights, which as a matter of fact would be insecure and fruitless were not the Church protected. | | | Moreover, the Church is not constituted merely by the exercise of the natural rights of the men who are citizens of the State, but by the supernatural endowment of the Divine Positive Law. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14250c.htm
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| | church and state on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The uncompromising refusal of the early Christians to accord divine honors to the Roman emperor was the chief cause of the imperial persecutions of the church. | | | The myth of resurrection: Orthodox Church in postcommunist Russia. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/c1/churchN1s.asp
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| | Church and State |
| | The relationship of church and state, or religion and politics, mirrors the interplay of ecclesiastical and governmental institutions in society--- in the Judeo-Christian[sic] tradition, between religious officials and state authorities, and in the Islamic tradition, between the imam-caliphs and sultans. | | | Historically discussions of church and state in the West have referred to the relationships between the formal institutions and leadership of the church and officials of the government. | | | By defining the state purely as a "hangman," charged with establishing worldly peace through punishment of crime, and considering the church as primarily concerned with spiritual matters unrelated to politics, Luther effectively sundered the secular authority from the ecclesiastical and placed the church under the governance of the state. |
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http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/separate.htm
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| | Welcome to Statechurch's homepage |
| | The State Church can also play the role of the defender of the downtrodden and encourage the enlightened elite to form alliances within minority races or religions to find those who are interested in perpetuating this division in order to ensure their own status as tools of the enlightened ones. | | | However, anyone not showing true allegiance to the State Church shall be ostracized and considered a traitor to their race, except for white males and possibly Asians, who do not have a natural allegiance to the State Church. | | | Agents of the state church must neutralize this threat by ensuring that Freedom of Religion means No Religion except state approved teachings. |
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http://nwopatriot.tripod.com
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| | State and Church |
| | Our Church can hope for stable relations with the State if the gospel of Christ is kept at the forefront of its mind, and it clings to the faith that Christ has the power to change us and renew the world, so that we may be purified and raised to eternal salvation. | | | The relationship between Church and state was an extremely complex system held together by a high degree of everday bureaucracy, but it was loosened at several points, firstly through the losses caused by the Treaty of Trianon which practically mutilated the country, and the Church organisations living in it. | | | The leading personalities of the Church realised that the separation of Church and state was inevitable. |
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http://www.reformatus.hu/english/state.htm
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| | The Myth of Separation of Church and State |
| | The reason Jefferson choose the expression "separation of church and state" was because he was addressing a Baptist congregation; a denomination of which he was not a member. | | | The world was not to corrupt the church, yet the church was free to teach the people Biblical values. | | | The only real reason to separate the church from the state would be to instill a new morality and establish a new system of beliefs. |
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http://www.noapathy.org/tracts/mythofseparation.html
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| | Quotations that Support the Separation of State and Church |
| | That is, aid was provided to all churches in each state on a nonpreferential basis, except that the establishment was limited to churches of the Protestant religion in three states and to those of the Christian religion in the other three states. | | | The old alliances of church establishments with local aristocracies, and the widespread assumption of the clergy that God was a disciple of Alexander Hamilton, had antagonized men of liberal inclination; and European deism obligingly provided plausible arguments from history and philosophy for detesting the clergy and spurning revealed religion. | | | He was also called an atheist because he didn't believe in a state church, an official church of the government, and in fact made it clear that he didn't much like any church at all, though he did admire many, though not all, of the teachings of religion.... |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/ed_buckner/quotations.html
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| | ChurchState.org : Seventh-Day Adventist Church State Council - Home |
| | The Church State Council is in the middle of the political and religious spectrum. | | | As Seventh-day Adventists, we stand in the Reformation tradition of protesting the combination of church and state power to define or promote "the truth," or to punish "error." We ask nothing of the state except that it protect religious freedom for all peaceful people of faith. | | | We take our faith seriously, and we defend the right of others to take their own faith just as seriously. |
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http://www.churchstate.org
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| | WallBuilders Resources The Separation of Church and State |
| | Jefferson believed that the government was to be powerless to interfere with religious expressions for a very simple reason: he had long witnessed the unhealthy tendency of government to encroach upon the free exercise of religion. | | | In short, the inclusion of protection for the “free exercise of religion” in the constitution suggested to the Danbury Baptists that the right of religious expression was government-given (thus alienable) rather than God-given (hence inalienable), and that therefore the government might someday attempt to regulate religious expression. | | | In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general [federal] government. |
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http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/search/detail.php?ResourceID=9
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| | State Street Church - Portland, Maine |
| | Our Church's mission is to introduce and invite all people into a caring and diverse community which reflects God's boundless love through the Christian faith. | | | State Street Church is a liberal, growing, changing and adapting church with appeal to our neighborhood and the Greater Portland area. | | | We strive to live out our faith as Christians in this rapidly changing and chaotic world. |
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http://www.statestreetchurch.org
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| | Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society |
| | We therefore favor the firm separation of religion and state: without such a separation there can be no freedom from tyranny, and such a separation is the sine qua non for a secular state. | | | We share the ideals of a democratic society, and a secular state that does not endorse any religion, religious institution, or any religious dogma. | | | In a theocracy of the type that Islamic fundamentalists wish to establish, sovereignty belongs to god, but in a democracy sovereignty belongs to the people. |
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http://www.secularislam.org
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| | America's Real Religion, and Essays, by Gene Garman |
| | Religious belief and support is none of the government's business, is a matter for individuals, families, churches, and religion organizations, and is to be freely exercised--that is what the Constitution says and the Court said. | | | As a result there are hundreds of thousands of churches and religions of all kinds freely functioning in America. | | | Most of the people who are complaining about the Constitution and the Court want religion required and imposed upon Americans, especially in public schools, which are not churches and where children of all religions are welcome to attend. |
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http://www.sunnetworks.net/~ggarman
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| | People For the American Way |
| | But the White House and the Religious Right leaders rallying around the beleaguered nomination of Harriet Miers are now citing her religious beliefs and the church she attends as reasons to believe she will oppose abortion rights and to bolster support for her among activists on the far right. | | | Only weeks ago, right-wing leaders insisted that any mention of a nominee’s faith, or even indirect implication that their faith might influence their judicial opinions, would be evidence of rank religious bigotry. | | | Aid brought to a Red Cross shelter by PFAW board member Rev. Timothy McDonald’s church was rejected. |
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http://www.pfaw.org
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| | Welcome to The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State Page |
| | Separation of Church and State is one of those topics. | | | First, and foremost, there are a number of anti-separationist web pages in existence attempting to tear down the wall of separation between church and state. | | | The Constitution Principle: Separation of Church and State does not collect any information on visitors beyond such information that visitors may choose to place in our guestbook. |
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| | School Prayer: News |
| | Library: Modern Documents: Separation of Church and State: School Prayer | | | Should churches be allowed to use their tax-exempt fortunes to topple our secular Constitution and establish "One Nation Under God"? | | | Politically active churches should not be allowed to retain tax-exempt status. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/church-state/prayer.html
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| | FindLaw's Writ - Hamilton: How United States Church-state Relations Play On The World Stage |
| | This seemingly inconsequential case, which is reasoned away by the Supreme Court and most religion theorists, stands as an example to the world of the establishment of religion. | | | Their point was hard to deny: we had opened the door to establishing a church, the Protestant church, in this country. | | | That takes us back to my foreign colleagues' insistence that there is an established church in the United States. |
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http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20010705.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Church & State I (Cerebus, Volume 3) |
| | In my opinion the two volumes that comprise Church and State are the best of Cerebus. | | | Now, to get to Church and State 2... | | | And forget about benevolence: annoy him with pleas or prayers and he'll throw you off a building. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0919359094?v=glance
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| | FFRF Separation of Church and State Quiz |
| | The U.S. Constitution says that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, based on the sovereign authority of God | | | The phrase "wall of separation between church and state" originated with | | | Where did the separation of church and state originate? |
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http://www.ffrf.org/quiz.html
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| | Alliance for the Separation of School & State |
| | That means the Big Questions of Life can be discussed home and church but not brought into school, the workplace, or the political process. | | | We saw this breakdown at Enron, Arthur Anderson, WorldCom, etc. People who were in the church choir on Sunday were shredding audit reports on Monday. | | | Who should have the final say, parents or government? |
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http://www.sepschool.org
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| | American Atheists |
| | Rove, he said, merely revealed that Miers was active in an evangelical church congregation. | | | Initiated by the founder of the organization, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, this famous suit is a part of a long tradition in the legal battle for separation of state and church. | | | And does bible history withstand the test of evidence? |
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http://www.atheists.org
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| | The Chalcedon Foundation - Faith for All Life |
| | German Christians are trying to find a way to emigrate to the United States to preserve their faith and their families from persecution by an aggressively secular German government. | | | Immigrants fleeing Europe to escape religious persecution, coming to America to find religious freedom — we think of that as an image from our past: the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock, William Penn, Lord Calvert. |
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http://www.chalcedon.edu
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| | SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IN THE U.S. |
| | Introduction to the concept of separation of church and state | | | They have a "Separate Church and Hate" aisle at: http://www.cafepress.com/ | | | Nativity displays, state and municipality mottos, symbols, crests. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/const_am.htm
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| | J.M. Dawson Institute of Church and State Studies - Links |
| | The first link provides access to a number of organizations or web sites that maintain an interest in church and state and/or religion and politics. | | | J.M. Dawson Institute of Church and State Studies - Links | | | Here is your point of access to a number of church-state resources available on the Internet. |
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http://www3.baylor.edu/Church_State/church-state_links.htm
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| | Americans United: Home Page |
| | Should public schools teach religion in science classes? | | | Report a government action that you believe violates the Constitution& requirement that church and state be kept separate. | | | Chief Justice Nominee's Statements On Church And State During Hearings Were Unpersuasive, Says AU's Lynn |
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http://www.au.org
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| | Separation of Church and State Home Page |
| | The case for separation of church and state. | | | A look at the statements of the framers of our Constitution about church and state. | | | A brief look at who we are, our political philosophy, what we mean by "separation of church and state," some answers to basic questions about separation, and why we think this page is important. |
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http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tnppage/tnpidx.htm
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| | Crosswalk.com - 'Swing State' Church Rallies Focus of Inquiries |
| | Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (http://www.au.org) | | | Crosswalk.com - 'Swing State' Church Rallies Focus of Inquiries | | | Robert Boston of Americans United says the investigation process has begun regarding the rallies in the churches. "We have asked the IRS to take action against four churches already that have sponsored rallies on behalf of John Kerry and/or John Edwards or the Democratic Party," Boston says. |
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http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1295474.html
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| | BBC - History - Church and State |
| | Britain has been shaped by turmoil between its nations, and tension between state and church. | | | How Britain's regions and nations have asserted and preserved their identities. | | | But centuries of conflict would forge the power at the heart of the largest empire the world has ever seen. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/state
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| | J.M. Dawson Institute of Church and State Studies - Home |
| | J.M. Dawson Institute of Church and State Studies - Home | | | The J.M. Dawson Institute of Church and State Studies P.O. 97308 - Waco, TX 76798-7308 Phone: 254-710-1510 Fax: 254-710-1571 | | | On Thursday, September 29, 2005 at 12 noon on the 3rd floor of the Carroll Library in the Research Center, Donna Bowling will be speaking on “Reclaiming Civility in the Public Square.” Bowling is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma (J.D.) and Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (M.A.T.S. in ethics). |
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http://www3.baylor.edu/Church_State
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| | Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty |
| | Answering the Top 10 Lies About Church and State | | | (RNS) In a nationally watched case about a church's freedom to build where it pleases, the U.S. Justice Department has invoked the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act to investigate the way a New Jersey township has treated a 5,000-member megachurch, one of 25 such investigations. | | | The new Religious Liberty Council Issue Guide contains brief summaries of our perspectives on issues at the intersection of church and state, as well as some suggestions for advocacy. |
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http://www.bjcpa.org
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| | Explicitly Christian Politics -NRA |
| | The Authority of the Old Testament in the State, William Einwechter | | | The Secular Assault on Christian Civil Government; The Authority of the Old Testament in the State; False Pluralism | | | March - April 2003, Volume 146, Number 2 |
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| | Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. |
| | Our national association of nontheists has been working since 1978 to promote freethought and defend the constitutional principle of the separation of state and church. | | | Your membership supports the Foundation’s work, now more critical than ever, to keep state and church separate. | | | Explore our site, learn about us, then get involved by joining or making a donation to our Legal Fund. |
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http://www.ffrf.org
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| | ACLJ American Center for Law & Justice |
| | In a case involving eminent domain, the high court reached a decision that could have dramatic ramifications for your private property - including churches and houses of worship. | | | Select your state from the dropdown provided to locate a radio station near you. | | | Listen to our new 60-second audio report on the issues of the day - Law and Justice. |
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