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Never mix Religious believes with Countries Constitutions


The great demonstration of Kramer's movie is the danger of mixing religious believes with the management of a country.

Whether religious communities like it or not, no one is entitled to demand anyone to believe in any form of religion and its theories concerning scientific matters.

It is really shocking to see a country which up to now has played a major role in scientific development could still see debates in court about matters opposing believes in such and such questions concerning the origin of mankind or any other similar or approaching matters.

It reminds us that there were times when to believe that the earth was round was a crime which could lead you to prison or even to the gallows.
But there is also another view which be should also put forward. No government has the right to oblige a country to believe in a specific direction of a scientific matter. Scientists and those who follow their conclusions on any matter must have a total liberty of doing so whatever their conclusions as long as they have no racist consequences, or are disturbing the order in a country.

We saw how in the 1930s the mixing of government policy with scientific and religious beliefs lead Germany to the most horrifying acts of the world's history. The so-called Aryan theories mixed up with Christians so called values, were the foundations of the anti-Semitism laws of the country and the crimes committed in its name.

I'm personally shocked to see a great country like the USA still having to lead
actions like the one (Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case-December 20, 2005) Federal Judge John E. Jones III had to deal with because of people who try to mingle education with their religious beliefs. To be obliged to establish on a judiciary level that the teaching of intelligent design in public school science classes is unconstitutional shows that many people in the USA have a long way to go as tolerance of others believes are concerned. What a pity, what a shame! As a French man this is something I'll never understand.

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