“I believe in the separation of church and state. Completely. Some of the biggest “Christian” hypocrites are politicians. I don’t want issues of morality being decided by government (not talking about obvious crimes like murder, rape, assault, felonies.....) Just my 2 cents.”
So, we have a genius who doesn’t want “issues of morality decided by the government”, except for the “issues of morality” that he thinks are really immoral.
If we live in a world where morality is subjective, then morality will always be imposed by the majority (those in power or the government), there isn’t really any other option.
If we live in a world where morality is objective, then the most government does is recognize the fact that certain behaviors are immoral and institute punishments for transgressing those things.
The comment seems to imply that “the state” is always bad (with the exceptions noted) at deciding “issues of morality”, and that the “church” is the appropriate place to decide those issues. Or, that the state shouldn’t be influenced by the church. Or something else.
Wonder what the commenter thinks of Islamic law?
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