Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock - New York Times

Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock - New York Times: "After refusing each time, Mr. Boyd finally became fed up, he said. Before the last presidential election, he preached six sermons called “The Cross and the Sword” in which he said the church should steer clear of politics, give up moralizing on sexual issues, stop claiming the United States as a “Christian nation” and stop glorifying American military campaigns.

“When the church wins the culture wars, it inevitably loses,” Mr. Boyd preached. “When it conquers the world, it becomes the world. When you put your trust in the sword, you lose the cross.”"

This is why Religion Should NEver Be Mixed With State

Crooks and Liars - The Stop the ACLU Coalition publishes Jewish family’s personal information: They are forced to move: "The complaint recounts a raucous crowd that applauded the board’s opening prayer and then, when sixth-grader Alexander Dobrich stood up to read a statement, yelled at him 'take your yarmulke off!' His statement, read by Samantha, confided 'I feel bad when kids in my class call me Jew boy.'"

Because people can't help themselves. It starts with all religion being included, or at least the guise of it, or maybe not the guise of it at all. Then you start saying that it should only be this faith or that faith because they're obviously all incompatible (because they're all equally nonsensical). Then you have one group riding another out of town on a rail because they're right and you're wrong.

Religion is a social poison that allows people justification for doing awful things. It needs to be removed from government -- because government is already terrible without religion, and ends up being far worse for including it.