Government and religion must always strive to be separate. The best and most current lesson for this is when a Sudanese teacher was recently deported because she named a teddy bear Mohamed. Although there was no malice aforethought on the part of the teacher, she was nonetheless charged for defaming the Holy Prophet of Islam.
Why Elijah Was Not A King nor Solomon a Prophet
It is an interesting point that in The Bible none of the prophets save Moses became leaders among the people of Israel, and even Moses left the duties of priesthood to his brother Aaron. Thus we are taught that the separation of Church and State is not just an ideal, but must be mandated. For when the two are combined monstrous things can happen. The system of checks and balances, always necessary in any system of government, is overturned, as no one would dare go against the power of God, and no priest could resist the power to make his own dreams of salvation a reality. By pairing the two, rather than keeping them in opposition, a power s created that is monstrous, and must be stopped by whatever means are necessary.
Of Presidents and Priests, East and West
A priest must realize that his position is to advise, not to lead. His position is a mark of wisdom, and the need to deny earthly knowledge while allowing for it. It may sound paradoxical, but it’s nonetheless part of being God’s army. In order to best defeat Satan and his forces, a priest must realize that his purpose is not to fight, but to ensure that the fight is fought in as best a fashion as possible, and to ensure that Morality is not fought by those that have no morality themselves. Because of this a priest must not involve himself in real life or he may be tarnished by it and thus allow the baseness of it to influence his decisions. Thus he must not lead but must advise.
Conversely, a leader must be involved with reality as that is where the battles will be fought and his allies will be found. He must deal with his enemies in as such a way that he will not offend his allies while still putting his enemies in a worse position than they were, all the while allowing for the beliefs of his faith. He must be a warrior of his way of life, and do so in such a way that he is an example of it. It can thus be hard, but that is the point of being a leader; a leader does not merely guide his followers down an easy path, but must lead them down unfamiliar paths.
Neither Twain Shall Meet
When the Celestial and Earthly governments meet, Chaos is the only possible result. As any teacher could tell you, it is one thing to expect perfection, and yet another to achieve it. More to the point, it is not necessarily the best result; it is a bad student that relies solely on what he has learned when he faces the same test in real life. Consider Xeno’s Paradox; if you were to continually go half the distance you would never reach the point you were trying to make, yet experience teaches us that you will eventually that point. A student that learned logic too well would eventually be forced to stop an infinitesimal distance away from his destination, yet never reach it.
When an Earthly government no longer attempts to reach the ideal but enforces it, you create a situation where everyone shall fail and where Evil thrives as people use other’s imperfections against them in order to accomplish what they should have as part of the team. By allowing this corruption Evil quickly finds a way in and worms its way into the government. Government is a necessary evil, but it soon becomes one in actuality when it attempts to not only serve its people, but make them serve its God.
Separation Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
Thus, Government should be kept separate from Religion. When the two are separate, they can serve the needs of the people better, as one advises it and and the other leads it. Had they been kept separated, then a teacher would still be teaching. More to the point, it explains why governments that separate themselves from their religion do so well and ones that intertwine the two do so poorly. And not only are Christian or Islamic countries affected by this; consider China and Russia and there atheistic governments as well. Russia still focuses on its socialist ideals and continues to do poorly, whereas China has begun to allow religion in, and is starting to do well. Thus the two should be separated, for the good of the nation and its people.
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