Hmmm...well, my, my...lotta stuff to think about here.

I've known "Christians" whom I thought were out of touch or obnoxious or hypocritical...and I've met Christians who were just average, likeable people...and I've met Christians who were marvellous people.

They seem to run the gamut, actually.

I find this is also true of Muslims, Jews, Pagans, atheists, and any other group you could care to mention.

So although the temptation may be there to generalize when discussing Christians or Muslims or any of the others, it will usually tend to lead one astray. God knows, I have been tempted to generalize more than a few times... :-)

There have got to be at least 10,000 different varieties of Christian out there, judging by my experience...

Anyway, let me throw out a divergent notion here: Given the fact that the dominant religion of this present society is the worship of money...followed closely by the worship of material possessions, fame, youthful good looks, and a few other materialistic things...

Then if you want to talk about separating "Church and State", we had better discuss how we can achieve a government that isn't dominated by Big Money...a far more powerful and insidious lobby nowadays than any of the traditional churches (except maybe in Afghanistan and a handful of other small and isolated countries). The churches today are a mere shadow of what they once were. It is rampant materialism that is devouring this society.

Arguing about church and state at this juncture in history is, for most of us in the modern world, a tempest in a teapot.

- LH