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Church and State

When I try to think of solutions to world problems in my mind I end up with a headache, in an absolute state of confusion, which brings me right back to the same problem I started out with. It is like a confusing arithmetic problem that I dont quite understand but all many possible solutions come to my mind, but the light bulb has just not went off yet. I know it would be highly impossible trying to solve world hunger or to have word peace, but there is one world issue that I do feel strongly about, it is advocating the separation of church and state-globally. This is a hard task to undergo so we will start with a country dear to my heart that lacks this certain concept, that country is Egypt. When I was young I saw Egypt as a country with problems but I could never identify the heart of the problem until I was a bit older. I came to a conclusion that Egypts government system falls behind in many aspects because of the way the government is set up, being that their church and state is combined. Being that Egypt has an Islamic government there are many Christians that are persecuted for what they believe. In my opinion when church and state are combined whatever religion it may be it will directly prefer the people that follow that particular faith, which will not give people of others faiths a chance to reach their full potential, because they do not believe in the same religion. Also with church and state combined it will eventually corrupt the religion and the state, because in some way or another it will be selective towards people of that faith and not prove correct justice. In this paper I will advocate the separation of church and state, according to Kants categorical imperative. Taking in account possible objections to his philosophical concept in regards to religion.The first rule in the categorical imperative is: Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universa...

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