The United States may have once been a "great nation of Christians" but it has never been a "Christian nation."
Representative Republic != Theocracy
Freedom of INDIVIDUAL RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION AND PRACTICE is a basic right of everyone under the Constitution. This also is quite in-line with the Judeo-Christian respect of the freewill that God granted us. IMO Regardless of the good intentions a Christian theocracy would end up no less tyrannical than the theocracy currently gripping Iran.
It is really strange that so many people do not understand the relationship of the Church and State that was established by the Constitution.
The Constitution was written to prevent two things;
1) To prevent a Theocracy where the Church had the power to execute, and
2) To prevent the State from establishing a State Religion.
The reason for these two items was the Protestants that established America had been persecuted and killed by the Established State Religions of Catholicism in Europe and the Church of England in England.
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The way the Constitution prevents a Theocracy and an Established State Religion was to create Civil Law. Civil Law was to execute evil people as an act of the congregation (all the people) after a jury trial. Execution was totally removed from Church control.
The thing that has been lost in the concept of Separation of Church and State, is the concept that the State had the responsibility to execute, but the State did not have the right to define morals.
Defining morals was to be the Bible and Civil Law was never to violate the Bible. This was stated by Blackstone as follows.
William Blackstone: Of the Nature of Laws in General
William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England states, "This law of nature, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other-It is binding over all the globe in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this: and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original."
The key point stated by Blackstone is that law was dictated by God himself, it is superior to all other law, and that no laws contrary to the laws dictated by God are valid.
Separation of Church and State is being violated by the State when the State legalizes inappropriate contentography, abortion and homosexuality.
The only way Civil Law can ever be good law is for Civil Law and God's Law to be consistent.
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