church and state who rules?
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first off, does the organization have a lease for the facilities?  If so you can check the lease to see if there is any violation of the terms of the lease.\n\nRegarding separation of church and state, I believe as long as the mission of the organization is nonsectarian, that is, providing assistance or service to those of all religions, then it is not violating church/state restriction. \n\nYou could be a bit more specific about the activities and mission of the organization for a better answer.
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The Catholic Church has nothing to do with the laws of the United States of America.\n\nHowever, the Catholic citizens of the United States of America have just as much to do with the laws of the country as any other group of voters.\n\nAs a constitutional democratic republic, the Constitution and the citizens through their elected representatives have everything to do with the laws of the United States of America.\n\nThis is how democracy works.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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No------ Christians today must remain neutral and not get involved with politics in any way, shape or form. We must not put our trust in human rulers.(Psalms 146:3) \nIf we vote for any imperfect human, then we are showing disloyalty to our King, who now reigns in heaven. Our allegiance is to our righteous King, and his Father's heavenly government only. The Bible says that man was not meant to rule over man. ( Ecclesiastes 8:9 )\nWe must obey the laws of governments as long as they do not conflict with God's laws. We maintain the same position as Jesus' apostles: "But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men." (Acts 5:29)\nHuman governments will soon be put out of existance and will be replaced by God's government which will rule over the entire earth. When you say the Lord's prayer and ask for God's Kingdom to come, that is what you are praying for. \nThe new government will last forever as seen at Daniel 2:44--"\n"And in the days of these kings(current human rulers) the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever."\nAs long as governments condone war and make false promises they cannot hope to acheive, we will never see peace or security. Only God's government will make that happen. (PSALM 37:9-11)   \nChristians should not put their trust or confidence in political governments or rulers that God will soon overthrow. We need to look to God's Kingdom as the only hope for all mankind.
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That's what the Middle or "Dark" Ages was all about.  One of the last examples of trying a "theocracy" was Switzerland under John Calvin.  While I respect John Calvin and his doctrine, his "Holy Experiment" was a total failure as was the first year of the Pilgrim colony in the New World...the last historical example I can think of right now.\nIt doesn't work because a basic tenet of the Bible (if you read it carefully without prejudicial thoughts) is a doctrine called Individual Soul Liberty.  Which means you can't force a religious system on someone else.  Tell them what you believe, yes.  Try to get them to see the good in what you're saying, yes.  Preach and Teach, yes.  Force your system on them...NEVER.  A person has to be convinced in his own mind.\nHowever, there is a difference between a "theocracy" and a government that has rules based on biblical principles.  For instance, a basic biblical principle is the dignity of all human life...so, a government has a right to make laws based on that principle, such as construction codes for disabled, etc.  Sanctity of human life is another principle and so the government has the right to make laws against murder, torture, etc.\nUnderstand?
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Politics and Religion should always be kept apart for several reasons.\nGovernment for the most part is elected by the people,\nA religion can and has been invented or created by one person.\n\nLaws made by Government are decided by discussion and \na majority vote,\nLaws made by religion merely depend on the interpretation of a certain passage or story within the writings that are used as a basis for nearly all faiths\n\nHistory itself shows that  governments under religious influence\nare more likely to make war on countries that have a different\nreligion or a offshoot of their own religion that does that will not comply with the state religion.\n\nAn individuals belief is just that, INDIVIDUAL and should not, and must not be forced on any one person or group of people.\nNor should any country dictate to it's own people or the people of another country on how,where or to whom they pray.
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if you check out what the book of Daniel says in chapter\n2 verse 44  Daniel 2:44 you will read that God is setting up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin and that will put an end to all other kingdoms. so the kingdom of God is a real government that will be established in heaven for the purpose of ruling over the earth. it does say in revelation that those having part in the first resurrection will be judges it is in Revelation 20:6 which reads ' Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him for the thousand years. now the kingdom was a mystery for some because they did not believe in it or in the power of God to make this changes but that is another theme.
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Follow this link there is alot of info about the separation of church and state. http://www.au.org/site/PageServer \nGood Luck
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God has given authority to governments and officials to govern the people honorably. They are given a sacred trust. If this trust is broken through tyrannical rule or wickedness, that King (official) will have to answer to God for the disobedience of the trust that was given them.\n\n12It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
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So no one ruling body has total control.
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The Holy See is the State of the Vatican City and is the smallest sovereign state in the world. It's subjects practice Catholisism.
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It is my belief that the concept of "Division of Church and State" has been incorrectly interpreted and applied for many years. The founding fathers intended this separation to prevent things like a church being a branch of government (like the Supreme Court) which would have a final verdict on any law.
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All authority or power is with the people in a Sovereign State.The people exercise this power through the Legislature which make the laws, the Executive which implement the laws and the Judiciary i.e. the courts which ensure that the Executive or the Legislature do not get derailed from their tracks. Simple: isn't it?
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In America, the "separation of church and state" is a concept expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution:\n"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."\n\nAt the most basic level, this means that our government cannot make any law requiring you to belong to a given religion, nor prohibit you from exercising your religious beliefs.  In Europe at the time, people were required to be of a certain religion; to profess another religion could be a death sentence.
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Morality and Religious Laws tend to go hand in hand, which is typical, as it deals with personal nature, instead of governmental issues.\n\nHowever, National Law, Local state Law, and civil law tend to follow the morals of religion to some extent.  This is a true crime, in my opinion, as it allows religion to dictate what the state can and can not do.\n\nTo some extent our government has harbored a christian ethos into running this country.  However, to be inclusive of other faiths, and other nationalities within our own community, the government has adopted a policy of seperating church and state.  but this ethos, that of sepration, isn't always as clean cut as one would hope.\n\nLet us hope that in the near future we will adopt a stance of removing religion from state governments and federal governments.  To finally allow the SOCIETY to control religion, and let the GOVERNMENT worry about PROTECTING the society.
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Its a form of government, there are monarchies where you have Kind and Queen, Republic, Oligarchies, Democracy like the USA, Socialist, Communist like China, Anarchies, Fundmentalist where supreme religious leader rule.
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Religion and government are two different things. Officials should be, and are, elected based on how well they serve the state or national government. Not because of religion.
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Well first we have to realise that there is no real seperation of church and State,  Read the real Constitutin, it only says that there will not be an official state religion and that the state can not pass any laws restricting religion.  It never says a world that the state is seperate from the Church, only the state can not interfere with a Church by passing laws effecting it.  ( and they look at all the church zoning laws, tax laws, minister requirements to do weddings and tell me they keep thier end of the deal)\n\nBut the idea of seperation of Church and State has been created from a speach made by Thomas Jeffereson to a religioius group and he was still refering to thier protection and rights.\n\nThe lie taught today is done to try and destroy the Christian teachings and Chrsitian hisotry of our nation.\nThat is the purpose of the teaching of seperation.