Should Church and State be separate? - KingdomCraft

[youdeserverealmoney]

This topic definitely won't be controversial whatsoever.

[parker_chess]

Church and state should remain separate institutions, however there should still be cooperation between them. The state shouldn't appoint religious priests and neither should the church priests and bishops hold political office. This makes the most sense to me

[VeritasVivet]

You can separate the church from the state, but you will never separate policy from morality, and you will never separate morality from theology

[DepravedSinner]

In regards to science and Christianity, inspiring philosophy has a great episode explaining how atheists have pushed Christians out of these fields because of prejudice.

Edit : for all asking, it's called "Is Christianity Anti-science" and I heard it on Spotify.

[PeterBoggs]

The biggest issue with "Christian Nationalism" is that it's invariably about nationalists using and twisting Christianity for their own purposes and never the other way around.

[The_Proud_Texan]

Yes, the church must be protected against the government

[hologramjosh]

The problem with a state church is that it cannot oppose the actions or ideology of the nation from a position of strength, because to place itself in opposition to its own nation would be suicide. Hence the church becomes a proxy battleground for national rivalries (e.g. Ukrainian Orthodox Church vs Orthodox Church of Ukraine) or conforms itself to state ideology (e.g. Church of Scotland or German Evangelical Church). The church must be both unified and international.

[JoWilliams-udeu]

Those old Presbyterians were smart about government.

[Steadfast-Lutheran]

Interesting fact: In 1833, Massachusetts was the last U.S. state to end official state support for a Christian denomination. Until then, Congregationalism was the official church in Massachusetts and tax payer dollars went to support it. Also, in 1892 the U.S. Supreme Court declared that America has throughout its history been “a Christian nation.”

[Theophoruz]

Yes, 100%, but I would say the ideal government is a government that works like allies with the Church, but never the church be the government.

[TodaysDante]

The separation of church and state is there so the state can't interfere with the church, not the other way around. It would be impossible for people in government to separate their personal beliefs in the decisions they make on a daily basis.

[realCorwynGaines]

Christians should move to states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Arizona, for the same reasons that Christians in 1850s moved to Kansas.

[bignoob]

No state church, freedom to choose your own church and pursue God according to your conscience

[krazkarla]

I don't think they logically can. Even looking at it Biblically, every civilization that did not have God as their center, failed. Having God as their establishment flows into how we treat each other.

Separation of Church and State is LITERALLY how we failed everytime.

[Summercampsland]

Yes but not where religion is kept away from government but where the government stays away from religion

[Frazier]

3:20 bro broke the #1 rule of Minecraft

[jayfenny]

I love these videos but i feel we need to start a petition to get this man a better computer. Let’s be honest. Man deserves it. How many of us has he helped.

[jlee]

So in your ideal world, do people that don't follow the particular brand of Christianity of the nation have to leave? Pay a tax?

Are all things considered sinful by the state church illegal?

[mojus]

I don't know how you can base your whole government structure on rights given by God and then not have God involved in the government.

[livinginahotdog]

For people who want for them to not be separated, I live somewhere where they are quite mixed. As a result the church is very corrupt and people s view of religion in general is tainted by it. It s best that they stay separate. Also the law shouldn’t t be based on religious morality, the law of a state should be useful for it s citizens. Morallity is something one should follow by their own free will, not imposed by law.