Why, as a Christian, I support Separation of Church and State

errorlevel has had this account made for me for a while now, so I guess I could start using it. ;)

As a Christian, many see me as a hypocrite for supporting this idea. However, that couldn't be farther from the truth. I support Separation of Church and State not to protect the government from the church, but to protect my church from politics.

Politics is corrupt by it's very nature. Making the church involved in it can only serve to make the church corrupt. We saw a small example of that with the church who expelled it's members who voted against Bush in the '04 elections. Involving the church in politics would involve it with everything that comes with it... wars, foreign policy, lobbyists... none of these things can be any good for the church. The church's focus should be on what God deems correct, not on how much money the lobbyists will give it. I don't want to see my church fall into the corrupt cess-pool known as politics.

Europe is an excellent

Europe is an excellent argument for this as well. You have christian symbols scattered everywhere. The Christian Democrats are a very powerful political party. There basically is no seperation of church and state.

And there are very few people that most Americans would consider christians.