Concept that religion and government should be separate; basis for the establishment clause of the First Amendment.
Guidelines set up to keep religion out of government and insure equal treatment of the people.
undefined because religion is outlawed under socialism guarantee that any organization that receives government funding does not participate in religious activities guarantee that any individual who attends a government-funded institution will not be allowed to practice his/her religion at will a violation of the authority of the local/state government that wishes to fund, by a majority vote, an institution of education that teaches a prescribed curriculum that may or may not differ from the majority curriculum in the rest of the state and/or nation
The concept that the government's policy-making should not be influenced by the actions of any religious organization. This is supposedly promoted in the United States of America, but no evidence has been found to prove it. One of the many ways in which the Pinko Commie Atheist Liberals are destroying the very fabric of our blessed nation. Yea, they shall surely become a nice, roasty-toasty Golden Brown and Delicious after their deaths. Amen.
idea that the government and religion should be separate, and not interfere in each other's affairs. In the United States, this idea is based on the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which states that the government cannot make any laws to establish a state religion or prohibit the free exercise of religion.
Separation of church and state is a political doctrine which states that government and religious institutions are to be kept separate from each other. The concept has been a topic of political debate throughout history.
In the West, the separation of church and state during the medieval period went through a number of developments, roughly from the end of the Roman Empire through to the beginning of the Reformation. The events of the struggles for power between kings and popes shaped the western world.