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The Separation Of Church And State Is Necessary Partly Because If Religion Is Good Then The State Shouldn't Interfere With The Religious Vision Or With The Religious Prophet. There Must Be A Realm Of Truth Beyond Political Competence, That's Why There Must Be A Separation Of Churches, But If Religion Is Bad And A Bad Religion Is One That Gives An Ultimate Sanctity To Some Particular Cause. Then Religion Mustn't Interfere With The State - So One Of The Basic Democratic Principles As We Know It In America Is The Separation Of Church And State.

That Is One Of The Flagrant Misconceptions About Catholicism In America That If A Man Is A Catholic He Owes Allegiance To What They Say A Foreign Sovereign, Or Something Like That.

Faith Is The Final Triumph Over Incongruity, The Final Assertion Of The Meaningfulness Of Existence.

What Is So Funny About Us Is Precisely That We Take Ourselves Too Seriously. Laughter Is The Same And Healthy Response To The Innocent Foibles Of Men; And Even To Some Which Are Not Innocent.

Certainly, Anybody Who Says, "in The Eyes Of God," Is Pretentious.