Should Religion And State, Or Should Not Be Separated?
Should Religion and State Separate?
The issue of separating the religion from the state has not been resolved by now. Many people are still debating whether religion and the state should or should not be separated. Opponents of religion and the state separation often use the arguments related to their religion scriptures. On the other hand, supporters of religion and the state separation use many sources outside religious scriptures and factual data to refute the other party’s arguments. Hence, I believe that there are several reasons why religion and state should not be separated.
The first reason why religion and state could not be separated is that the religion such as Islam also regulates many issues about state affairs in their scripture. …show more content…
It is because the law-making process is taking consideration from many views including religion and state. For example, a country which uses Islamic democracy, such as the United Arab Emirates, will make laws based on the “sharia laws” with the consideration of their state affair and condition to avoid any uproar from the minority. The law-making process consideration towards religion and state are important to make sure the law is fair to every group of people including minorities. Nevertheless, that argument is not practicable. That is why there is another argument that said the religion and state need always to be separated for maintaining Fundamental Rights where the failure to do it may create anarchy. One of the examples can be seen in the Japan history. In the book, Japanese religions: past and present, The Directive for the Disestablishment of State Shinto (1945), which is an order issued in 1945 to the Japanese government by Occupation authorities, written that “prevent recurrence of the perversion of Shinto theory and beliefs into militaristic and ultra-nationalistic propaganda designed to delude the Japanese people and lead them into wars of …show more content…
There are three reasons why religion and state should not be separated. First is because the religion also regulates many issues about state affairs in their scripture. The second reason is that both acts as important elements of the law-making process which is used to control its citizen on how their life will be conducted, and the third reason is that both are part of the foundation of the nation which goes hand in hand to build the nation as it is. Every side has their reason to justify their arguments, and they give their arguments several factual data to support it which is even researchers like Talal Asad, and Ali Mubarak can have different arguments about this. However, I still believe that religion and state should not be
The issue of separating the religion from the state has not been resolved by now. Many people are still debating whether religion and the state should or should not be separated. Opponents of religion and the state separation often use the arguments related to their religion scriptures. On the other hand, supporters of religion and the state separation use many sources outside religious scriptures and factual data to refute the other party’s arguments. Hence, I believe that there are several reasons why religion and state should not be separated.
The first reason why religion and state could not be separated is that the religion such as Islam also regulates many issues about state affairs in their scripture. …show more content…
It is because the law-making process is taking consideration from many views including religion and state. For example, a country which uses Islamic democracy, such as the United Arab Emirates, will make laws based on the “sharia laws” with the consideration of their state affair and condition to avoid any uproar from the minority. The law-making process consideration towards religion and state are important to make sure the law is fair to every group of people including minorities. Nevertheless, that argument is not practicable. That is why there is another argument that said the religion and state need always to be separated for maintaining Fundamental Rights where the failure to do it may create anarchy. One of the examples can be seen in the Japan history. In the book, Japanese religions: past and present, The Directive for the Disestablishment of State Shinto (1945), which is an order issued in 1945 to the Japanese government by Occupation authorities, written that “prevent recurrence of the perversion of Shinto theory and beliefs into militaristic and ultra-nationalistic propaganda designed to delude the Japanese people and lead them into wars of …show more content…
There are three reasons why religion and state should not be separated. First is because the religion also regulates many issues about state affairs in their scripture. The second reason is that both acts as important elements of the law-making process which is used to control its citizen on how their life will be conducted, and the third reason is that both are part of the foundation of the nation which goes hand in hand to build the nation as it is. Every side has their reason to justify their arguments, and they give their arguments several factual data to support it which is even researchers like Talal Asad, and Ali Mubarak can have different arguments about this. However, I still believe that religion and state should not be