Welcome to you. You have arrived at a plain text page in the LoveAllPeople.org network of web pages. To visit our regular HTML web pages, please copy the link below, and paste it into your Internet Explorer or other browser. Blessings to you. - Rev. Bill McGinnis Link to copy => http://www.loveallpeople.org/chapellinks.html Religion Is A Normal Part Of All Politics by Bill McGinnis, Public Domain Whoever dreamed up the silly idea that religion should be kept out of politics? Religion is a normal part of all politics. It cannot be kept out. Here's why . . . Religion provides us with our values, our sense of what is right and wrong, desirable and undesirable. Politics is the means by which we translate our values into public policy and law. How can these two things be separated? Why should we even try to separate them? That's like saying our sense of style should not influence our clothing or our sense of taste should not influence our choice of food. Politics and religion are inseparable. It is schizophrenic to try to separate them. The Constitution prohibits the government from establishing any particular religion as the official state religion, but it absolutely does not prohibit religious values from entering into the making of laws and policies. The Founders would have laughed at that idea. How else can you have legitimate values without religion? Without religion, the only value system that makes sense to an individual is the Law Of The Jungle: "Me first, always!" Is this what we want as the basis of our government? Of course not! The exact opposite value system is the Christian system of "Love your neighbor as yourself," which is the basis for all of God's law, according to the Bible. _____________________________________________________________ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Galatians 5:14 RSV) _____________________________________________________________ If you exclude religion from politics, you get The Law Of The Jungle everywhere. Is this what we want? No! Blessings to you, in Jesus Christ our Lord. Bill McGinnis <>< bmcgin@patriot.net http://www.patriot.net/users/bmcgin/ministries.html "Teaching The Joyful Christian Life" http://www.patriot.net/users/bmcgin/chapel.html INTERNET DAILY CHAPEL From bmcgin@patriot.net Mon Sep 6 02:02:12 1999 Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:28:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill McGinnis To: Chapel List Newsgroups: alt.religion.christian, alt.atheism, alt.christnet, alt.religion.christianity, alt.bible, talk.religion.misc, talk.politics.misc Subject: RELIGION IS A NORMAL PART OF ALL POLITICS Religion Is A Normal Part Of All Politics by Bill McGinnis, Public Domain Whoever dreamed up the silly idea that religion should be kept out of politics? Religion is a normal part of all politics. It cannot be kept out. Here's why . . . Religion provides us with our values, our sense of what is right and wrong, desirable and undesirable. Politics is the means by which we translate our values into public policy and law. How can these two things be separated? Why should we even try to separate them? That's like saying our sense of style should not influence our clothing or our sense of taste should not influence our choice of food. Politics and religion are inseparable. It is schizophrenic to try to separate them. The Constitution prohibits the government from establishing any particular religion as the official state religion, but it absolutely does not prohibit religious values from entering into the making of laws and policies. The Founders would have laughed at that idea. How else can you have legitimate values without religion? Without religion, the only value system that makes sense to an individual is the Law Of The Jungle: "Me first, always!" Is this what we want as the basis of our government? Of course not! The exact opposite value system is the Christian system of "Love your neighbor as yourself," which is the basis for all of God's law, according to the Bible. _____________________________________________________________ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Galatians 5:14 RSV) _____________________________________________________________ If you exclude religion from politics, you get The Law Of The Jungle everywhere. Is this what we want? No! Blessings to you, in Jesus Christ our Lord. Bill McGinnis <>< bmcgin@patriot.net http://www.patriot.net/users/bmcgin/ministries.html "Teaching The Joyful Christian Life" http://www.patriot.net/users/bmcgin/chapel.html INTERNET DAILY CHAPEL