Thursday, June 19, 2008

On Religion and Government

Over at our Monastery of Miscellaneous Musings, there have been a few posts on the recent swarm of gays getting "married". There was a comment in this one that prompted a response. Here's that comment.
...I'd take much greater alarmed interest to this ever rising to the level of "constitutional ammendment timber", as that would be a clear injection of religion into the government framework...

As stated before: Government out of religion; Religion out of government.
Here's my response.

Laws are the codification of morality. That is, we have made murder illegal because we believe it is immoral. Without religion as a basis, from what do you derive your morality and from that your laws? Secular Germany has one answer.

2 comments:

Dean said...

KT, Welcome back... not that you were ever really gone but... you get the point.

Thanks for the link!

K T Cat said...

Thanks, Dean. It's good to be back, too.