I read a post on
http://alexmarshall.blogspot.com/ that was making the argument that Christianity and the American style of governance are “comparable” with one another, but unlike how some think they do not “inspire” each other. I found this argument very interesting as it reminded me that often governments and church’s develop agreements between each other to “justify and support” each other (as I said in the blog’s comment section). In return for the support of the church pronouncing the government as righteous (or following correct religious principles or practices that do not break church doctrine)--which gives support and stability to the government through the masses—the government in return gives legal sectioning to the church thus giving creditability to the religion (via people’s support for or views on the governments own creditability—granted this is the logic faults of guilt or innocence by association(s) as well as ad hoc reasoning) as well as often not taxing the church or taxing at a lower rate or by financially contributing to the church’s projects through various charitable and culture funding projects. It is especially helpful to the government when the churches’ of its country support their military conquests or at least ‘forgive’ or rule acceptable the actions of their soldiers as part of their duty to their country.
