Question 2- Does the First Amendment protect religion from the state or the state from religion?
I believe the first amendment protect religion from the state. There are some many people in the world who believe in some many different religions. With the first amendment of freedom of religion, this gives the right to the people to choose their own. For example, religion can not play in any kind of role at a public school, because everyone else might believe in their own religion, or not believe in one at all. We also have private schools where if you wanted the choice to go to a school that talks about religion. However, to follow the first amendment private schools do not get money from the state, because the state can not support any kind of religion. I believe the freedom of religion is one of the strongest amendments we use in are country today. The 1st amendment gives you support if you want to kept your choices private or not. If we didn’t have the freedom of religion, the state could tell what and where to go to learn about are religions, they could also take us away from religion. How would you feel if you have believed in type of religion your whole life and one day the state came in and took it away or told you to choose a different kind of belief? But with the most powerful item that all people have in the US, the constitution, we have the power to use the first amendment to protect religion from the state.
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I agree with your general ideas, however, I feel as though they most fit when thinking about Christianity. The myriad of religions in this country that are not Christian are looked over all too often. I do agree that religion and government need to be seperate entities! And that people should be allowed to practice whatever belief system they have.
There are no questions about that the freedom of religion is protected in this country by the first amendment. But the real question is all the other religions have the same opportunity to practice their religious believe as christens do? Of curse no but they do have the freedom to do it which is enough on my opinion.
No. Read the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION." This was in direct response to King George's establishment of the Church of England as a primary source of authority over England's democratic government. The First Amendment's purpose is to protect ALL our people--the State--from the excess influence of religion. That is why the government cannot fund religious programs; they must raise their own money for their own programs and then they can do with it what they choose. In this way, the State is kept from preferring religious institutions from nonreligious and Christian values from, say, Muslims'.
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