Cassie Huntsberry- Jesus|Politics

Jesus Camp described the various points of entanglement between religion and politics.  The documentary featured Becky Fisher, a teacher, who works with children who attend a camp in North Dakota.  The children are considered to be training soldiers in “God’s Army”.  I found it honestly frightening to see the children in the documentary falling to the floor in ecstasy and speaking in tongues when Fisher told them too.  I think that children who follow Christianity is a wonderful thing to be involved with, but I do not agree that children should be involved with it when it deals with politics.  I obviously noticed that this view of how the country should be run is very different from the view that Thomas Jefferson had.  It doesn’t seem possible that the United States could run as a Christian nation, because that is not how it has ever been.  The point of freedom of religion is that anyone, anywhere is allowed to follow whichever religion they feel right doing.  If enough of these people form together then thinking this way becomes more of a forceful way of thinking rather than freedom.  In this sense, I feel that there is a reason to have separation of church and state.