Church and State

"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
- Thomas Jefferson

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The separation of church and state is a point of pride to many American people.  However, were they to see the reality of the Law, they may not be so bold in their claims.

The American government is broken down into this design:

• Representatives are decided upon by the largest group of people.
• These representatives then decide what is right on behalf of the largest group of people.
• Other representatives and their staff enforce the decision on not just the largest group of people, but on all people, punishing those who behave in a "wrong" way.
• These representatives appoint men to a position to judge those who are claimed to behave in the wrong way.
• The rules that govern these representatives are under these representatives' control.

So, what you have is a group of people who decide morality, judge people on that decision, punish people for being "wrong," and also have control over the rules that govern them.

Now, "the will of the whole people," what is this?  This is the belief that all people agreed to this in the first place.  Now, when was the last time, in all the history you remember, that a popular vote was unanimous?  Certainly not in all the time i've been alive.  So, if a vote was not unanimous, meaning that all voting individuals agreed to a single vote, how can "whole" be applied to people?

It can't.

The "will of the people" is an illusion, designed for rhetoric to give the listener the impression that everyone agrees, despite the fact that the unlucky fewer who were ignored and sidelined had disagreed.  This is never mentioned when speaking of "the will of the people."  However, the "will of the people" are used as a reason for new things to be determined good or bad, and therefore enforced.

So, in essence, it seems that government is one big religion, with "the will of the people" as a form of God, lawmakers and judges as their high priests, lawyers as clergy, and the police and military as the paladins and crusaders of the order.   And the law itself is scripted in the penal code, the order's bible.

Separation of church and state is thus impossible, as the state is a church.