AJ's Corner

AJ’S Corner

Anthony P. Joseph, Jr.

STATE AND RELIGION; I THOUGHT THE TWO WERE SEPARATE?

Over the past several weeks, the United States and religion, especially the Catholic Church, are at best discussing the imposition of state control health mandates on a religion. You could possibly extend this imposition of state control health mandates to include all religions. I was always under the impression that in the U.S.A., freedom of religion was granted by the constitution, and, by the way, is there not a provision for the separation of church and state.

Wait a minute! I guess the state will accept the separation idea only if the religious institution behaves and does NOT impose their religion, and their religious freedoms on the state or others; that is, prayer in schools, prayer at public functions, the Ten Commandments controversy, and the list goes on.

Yet, the state can impose their will on religion by requiring all religions to take part in birth control and contraception, which does not coincide with the basic tenets of the faith.

The move of the state to control and to interfere with religious concepts has to be questioned. So why is the state controlling religion? Very simple … the state is apparently interfering with the basic precepts of nature, your God given rights.  The God given rights religion is bound to protect and to exemplify. With the state’s inference and the control of rights, then you become controlled by, obligated to the whims of the state.

I am wondering why at least the Catholic Church does not excommunicate those involved. Why stop there? Why not place the U.S. under the age old Interdict?

Could the problem of health care be LARGER than health care? Could the issue be of government control?

Later,

AJ