Necessry

Religion is necessary for the survival and vibrancy of the civil society. That being premised, we need a touch of separation of church and state to stay religiously and politically healthy.

For democracy to survive, we require a virtuous citizenry to obey just laws, and keep freedom free, and order, orderly. The virtuous citizenry will only arise from and being sustained and nourished by religious inspiration and practice.

Spiritual goodness is the origin of moral goodness. Moral goodness, taught and learned, by virtuous adults as virtuous citizens, keep the country running and alive.

The Left is anti-religion, as extreme secular humanists. Without religion, our evil natures, our innate spiritual badness, reinforced by an order of magnitude by group-living and roving in gangs, will lead us to fail to win the moral struggle to be virtuous citizens. Without virtuous citizens, our evil souls wil corrupt the ordered liberty of our civil society, degrading it until it fractures into a lawless, poor, brutish uncivil society, no longer functioning or prospering.

Still, we require some separation of church and state. too often terrible evil, world ware and genocide have been committed in God's name.

In light of excesses of religious fanatics, religious group-livers and huge religious majorities and organizations that can use the government to go after unbelievers and minority alternative believers, two legal, cultural, religious and ethical rules must be pronounced and enforced to assuage and comfort wary secular humanists and the irreligious,

First, it does not matter if citizens believe, do not believe, or differently believe, there will be no social, worldly or legal penalties for whatever religious posture one holds.

Second, any pressure to convert to whatever the majority, or junta-dictators of a society prescribe and proscribe for dissenters and differing believers must be removed. There must never be any pressure to convert to some popular, unpopular, traditonal or post-modern religious belief system. All conversions must be voluntary or not at all. The government must never use force against differing blievers or unbelievers.

No good faith is good any longer if its followers violate above promulgated one and two. It is an evil faith until the violations cease. Bad means always create a bad end. A good end does not justify a bad means. A good end can never be reached by pursuing a bad means. Only an honorable means justifies a good end. Only an honorable means allows us to gain a good end.

There are no short cuts.