Separation of Church and State

my country does have seperation of church and state. i think its important because, as we see with Islam in sharia countries, states that enforce religion are doomed. THeir civil rights records are awful and their people are stifled. It leads to misuse and abuse of power and the corruption of the religion.

here in the uk we have had a seperation of church and state for going on five hundred years and i think its much better this way, look at the problems islamic states have because they choose not to seperate them

The whole concept of what the United States was founded on was, at least in part, based upon seperation of church and state. They should never be joined. Some of the worst times in history is when the controling power was the church. Both the church and state have a valuable role to play in all peoples lives but to merge them would be a very big mistake.

Church and state should be seperated always. If you have Theocracy it begins to corrupt the religion. It also stifles people who are not high in the church to rise to any responseble position in govt