Why Obama's Faith Based Initiatives Are a Great Idea

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Thursday July 03, 2008 · 12:45 PM PDT

2008/07/03 · 12:45

It's not possible to form a consensus government among a religious population without making room for religious beliefs. Our government is far, far, far from a theocracy, and one need only revisit the horrors of that sort of government in human history to see how high we stand above it. We cannot fail to be vigilant in the protection of our freedom of worship, which necessitates the separation of church and state, but we also cannot allow an unreasonable fear for those freedoms to make the government the enemy of religion, and thus the enemy of the people.

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