A Thought: On Separation of Church and State

A religion ceases to be a valid spiritual path the moment it sets foot in politics, just as a political movement cannot, in The United States of America, find it’s foundations in religious doctrine.

While philosophical beliefs may, perhaps must, influence one’s political decision-making, unless those beliefs are shared by all the citizens of a nation, it goes against the very fabric of this country’s primary doctrine to use it as the basis of any such decision.