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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
Thank you for the explanation. 
Still, I'm concerned. What if someone does take advantage of the potential to get church into the state? I'd prefer to eliminate the possibility altogether and strictly prohibit the state from endorsing or prosecuting any religion.
The U.S. is not immune to religion seeping into state affairs, but I think it is a lot less susceptible because of American ideologies. Thank God for the nutjobs that endlessly debate whether or not prayer in school should be allowed, and the ones that condemn the Pledge of Allegiance because the word "God" is in it. No system is perfect (not even mine, I slipped a "Thank God" in there) but simply allowing the church to have anything to do with the state invites complications upon a state, and in the worst case, theocracy. |
It's an anomally in a modern democracy and I think we are moving slowly towards a separation, but like so many things in the British state, its very very complex; a result of several hundred years of slow evolution. Its one of those things that on paper shoudn't work but in practice, somehow manages to. Take prayer in state schools for example, you would think it might have the effect of indoctrinating children to be christians; yet the UK has one of the most secular societies in the western world!