The Role of Religion in America

Religious America



                The role of religion in America is quite a significant one. I think that religion can be good in some instances but when in gets to your government you have to be completley unbiased. When you run a country you cannot treat any religions differently, which in this country they do. For example on the holiest day of the entire jewish religion the government overlooks this and people still have to work, as opposed to one of Christianity's holiest days, Christmas. The government calls it a national holiday and everyone gets off work, school or anything else. I think that Christianity all but almost runs our country, even though we say there is religious freedom, you can't walk by a church without someone trying to get you to join, not to mention all of the annoying phone calls. The government made the rule that public schools can't teach anything about religion, which is a step in the right direction but they still do so many other things that doesn't neccassarily talks about religion but puts the idea in the heads of kids. Even our pledge of alligience  is religion based with the phrase "under god", this phrase strongly takes away religious freedom, and in public schools the kids have to say the pledge of alligience every day in school, that is hardly religious freedom and absolutely not seperation of church and state. I think that a country based on religious freedom as one of the bases of this country would be much less suggestive of Christianity or even religion in general. I am not saying that religion is bad, all I am saying is that until the kids are old enough to make there own choices the parents should decide whether to make the kid religious or not, it shouldn't be our government or our schools.

Hamiltonian America, Worshipers of Jefferson

"America Worships Thomas Jefferson and it is a Hamiltonian America"

           In my personal opinion I think that America doesn't fully worship Jefferson. Along with that I also don't totally agree with the idea that we are totally a Hamiltonian America. I think it is a very equal mix of both.   For example the Hamiltonian America wanted presidency for life, which obviously didn't happen but he also wanted a economy that was based off of trade and the way he wanted a national bank. However Jefferson also had a major role to play in every day american life. Jefferson wanted the states to have more control over the important issues, he also wanted to become very separated from Britain which eventually we did. 

         In my personal opinion we don't give enough credit to either, Hamilton or Jefferson. In Jefferson's case he is worshiped but in my opinion not enough. I think that he should be on a higher bill than the 2 dollar bill. He was a president and he wrote the arguably most important document in our nations history. Though he has a monument or a memorial he fully deserves it. I am not saying that Hamilton doesn't deserve recognition but I think that he isn't as deserving of Jefferson. A quote that describes the death of Hamilton is "the world mourned him with a fervor that is remarkable, considering the speed with which it proceeded to forget him." this is saying that America loved Hamilton but when it came down to it, he just  wasn't as important as Jefferson.