Our state is secular so stop bringing religion into everything: iLIVE

26 March 2014 - 17:00 By Christopher Blackwell
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The government should not have a policy on religion according to the South African Constitution.

The government is supposed to remain secular, yet it has a special unit in the South African Police Services, made up of only Evangelical, that openly tries to blame some crime on minority religions.

They allege supernatural element, in ordinary crime, that cannot be proven in a court of law, interfering and distracting the police from regular police work.

We have officials in schools claiming all sorts of wild things happening in their schools based on mere rumour, but inviting Christian ministers in to help.

This is also strictly against the South African constitution.

We have alleged Christian ministers demanding government actions against other religions, also making wild un-provable claims based on their own religious bigotry.

Later these same alleged ministers will not identify which churches that they represent.

Again this is not supposed to happen in the secular government framed in the South African constitution.

We even have political parties that are claiming that Jesus supports them; Jesus a man that avoided taking sides in the politics of his day.

But now politicians are claiming his support and there re actual ministers trying to say the same thing.

As we see when religion mixes with politics, you only corrupt religion. You do not get honest politicians, nor political honesty. These claim of Jesus' political support is rank blasphemy.

So as I stated in the beginning there should be no government policy on religion and no government support of one religion over another.

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