Religion in Shaping the Country's Nature

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This paper argues that the role of religious ethics in public and economic life is the glue that gives men the reason to be economically prosperous and the element that holds societies together, rather than pull them apart. The writer believes that the religious principles espoused by Smith, Jefferson, and Winthrop created the social foundation on which America has been built. The writer states that to suggest that we can eliminate religious thought from public life and from economic behavior is to suggest that we can be our own god. Like Marx, such a philosophy is destined for a page in the history books, but it will not build lasting prosperity or success.

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"In our nation, the current politically correct cry is to separate moral issues from the public arena. The affairs of church and state should be forever separated. The associated corollary, one which is likely not spoken but clearly assumed by those who propagate the separation doctrine is that religious thoughts, morals, and ethics should also not be present in the market place. The assumption is that moral reasoning is only a bigoted and discriminatory belief system which seeks separate people, and is therefore harmful to the harmonious development of a nation."

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