| A. | The Separation of Church and State | |
| Though not a global concept, there are good reasons for the wall between church and state/Is law just the legislation of someone's morality?/The Law of the Land has always been the Constitution not Scripture/Religion was crucial to the formation of the United States/Religion can motivate humankind to advancement or destruction/Religion as a bus.../Today's religious leaders/The church as a collection of citizens...aren't barriers to politics unconstitutional?/The State regulates and is responsible to both believers and nonbelievers. | ||
| B. | The Role of Religion in Society | |
| Where does religion fit into an ideal society?/Quotes from Jesus, Paul and Martin Luther/Is religion just an "opiate of the people" as Marx claimed?/Religion and Family as the key institutions of socializing youth. | ||
| C. | The Failure of Family and Religion | |
| Alexis De Tocqueville on religion and liberty/Crime, prejudice and general rudeness show the failure of the social control system/US has more prisoners than any other country/How the family was restructured and crippled by the Industrial Revolution/It takes more than two.../The century-old "traditional family" needs to be reevaluated/Religious leaders' ignoring of discovery and backward-thinking is killing religion/Religion as the moral and spiritual guide for society/Continual scrutiny of moral guidelines. |
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