Separation of church & state, and religion & science

The first is obvious. Republicans, despite having no knowledge of what the bible's about, still want to create a theocracy. The second is betrayed by their constant attempts to mix science and religion with "creation science" - which manages to be simultaneously un-Christian and un-scientific. The bible actually says repeatedly: do not put God to the test. It seems more scientists are aware of this than conservatives.

However, many people, liberals especially, tend to go to extremes on the separation of church and state, expecting religion to be apolitical - as if people can just turn of their politics at their baptism! "In our age there is not such a thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues." - George Orwell. Remember, if we want government of the people without intermixing of religion and government, we'd need to all be atheists. There's a compromise between atheism and theocracy.