Keep Religous Beliefs Seperate from Governing USA
USA Today page 3A
2/18/08
This article is again another argument that discusses whether religion should be kept seperate from government. The article begins with a very negative attitude toward religion inside of the government. The author expresses that we need to focus more on important issues that will unite us as a country rather than unimportant topics such as gay marriage, abortion, or in school prayer that can tear us apart. The articles follows up with a differents authors opinion that respects the need for religion, but doesn't think it should be part of the government. He agrees that religion will give our world leaders a system of guidelines and morals that can help only help our president. However those religions that encourages masocism and death could be detrimental to our society.
I think that this article tries not to be bias by adding a difference of opinions, but at the same time does a bad job. I think the author jumps to conclusions about how religous disputes tear our country apart. I think the article is not well written and leaves out tons of important information that can help the reader to form an opinion.
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If we remove religion and other heated topics from our school, wouldn't we have to remove politics. THis is also an issue that is extremely charged and causes a lot of argument. We can't just throw everything away that causes a little bit of discussion. I think the article covered something that everyone discusses a lot.
Without reading the actual article, I can't really say how much I would agree or disagree with him. I would agree saying that the public schools system cannot be anything but impartial concerning its religious influence, but removing religion and being impartial are often considered the same thing. Encouraging students to study religions they are interested in and having them engage in healthy debates would be very good as long as the schools themselves do not maintain a bias. Debate is always good regardless of the topic; it forces you to think for yourself.
How the author calls the topics of abortion, gay marriage and prayer in schools unimportant and something that shouldn't be focused on I think discredits him because he obviously thinks they must be somewhat important since he is writing an article on them. It was good that he gave two differing opinions in this article; however, they did not seem to give much information. Although I did not read the article, it sounds like it was not very effective.
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