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To: jws3sticks
Is a bunch of churches getting together to write a letter to the Government telling them to stop a war a violation of your view of church/state separation?
26 posted on 11/03/2001 8:25:46 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: over3Owithabrain
Is a bunch of churches getting together to write a letter to the Government telling them to stop a war a violation of your view of church/state separation?

Of course not. If the pastors are greived by the war, then they have the right to petition the government. It is the members of those churches who disagree that ought to be incensed. The pastors used their membership as a credibility chip and that is, in my opinion, a violation of their privileged status as ministers. Of course, they could always just quit the church, but many people are unable to do this because they have an emotional investment through believing that their particular denomination is the only "true" path to God and heaven. They can't leave the church without feeling that they are leaving God. That gives the minister great power to abuse them.

30 posted on 11/03/2001 8:32:41 PM PST by Jolly Rodgers
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