Nonsense. The separation of church and states creates no moral vacuum, because the state is not a moral actor. The state is incapable or morality, nor ethics. It is a weapon, and a weapon alone. If you give it the opportunity to enforce morality, it will accept that it has the authority to police all human thought and behavior with violence.
Morality resides in the church and the church alone. If the church has failed to inspire good conduct among it's congregants, the state can not do it for them. The state is not moral, it is never moral, it never will be moral, because it never can be moral. It is a weapon.
A good guy with a gun does not make the gun good. A bad guy with a gun does not make the gun bad. The goodness of the man holding the gun is irrelevant to the gun.
The institution is occupied by people, and those people will have values. Either those values will be chaotic, and the institution will collapse, or those values will harmonize, that harmony being described by a moral system.
A state having a moral system described by a religion doesn't necessarily mean it will violently enforce that religion. It depends on the religion. Islam, progressivism, communism, these will be violently enforced. Christianity, there is no guarantee.
Either an immaculate troll or leftists have now reached peak irony
The Separation of Church and state requires both the separation of the church's influence from the state, and the state's influence from the church.
Using government powers to force individuals to violate their religious conscience is the latter.
The separation of church and state creates a vacuum of moral systems in the state. Progressivism fills that vacuum, then exercises power.
Nonsense. The separation of church and states creates no moral vacuum, because the state is not a moral actor. The state is incapable or morality, nor ethics. It is a weapon, and a weapon alone. If you give it the opportunity to enforce morality, it will accept that it has the authority to police all human thought and behavior with violence.
Morality resides in the church and the church alone. If the church has failed to inspire good conduct among it's congregants, the state can not do it for them. The state is not moral, it is never moral, it never will be moral, because it never can be moral. It is a weapon.
A good guy with a gun does not make the gun good. A bad guy with a gun does not make the gun bad. The goodness of the man holding the gun is irrelevant to the gun.
The institution is occupied by people, and those people will have values. Either those values will be chaotic, and the institution will collapse, or those values will harmonize, that harmony being described by a moral system.
A state having a moral system described by a religion doesn't necessarily mean it will violently enforce that religion. It depends on the religion. Islam, progressivism, communism, these will be violently enforced. Christianity, there is no guarantee.