re: #252 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

Well, Cain needs to be careful with that kind of crap, since the National Baptist Convention USA, where he has his ordination, is seen by some of those ignorant confederates he’s trying to please as some black radical separatist tradition. I think this is why he’s trying to disavow any connection to civil rights.

But yeah, separation is supposed to protect religion from the state. The ones bemoaning it have no way to manage a theocracy if they tried, not in this country where there’s every religion under the sun. But then, that’s WHY there’s the separation in the first place.

Didn’t know that about the NBC. I agree though, separation is supposed to protect religion from the state which is why I think many religious intellectuals in the country’s founding by and large embraced the idea since many of their own ancestors or they themselves had fled countries with a strong religious and state connection. A seminar I attended a few years back by a visiting professor from Baylor showed that nations such as ours that have no official state religion tend to have much more better church activity than those with one. Thought that was interesting personally.