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I’m not a follower of any faith and suppose that’s attributed to my rejection of certain aspects of particular religions of the world. Whether I find them too influential on politics, oppressive of people, or –simply put – too outrageous to believe, I reject every faith I know of as one I’m willing to adopt as my own. It’s this attitude that begs the question: then, in an ideal world with an ideal religion, what would be such a religion’s characteristics. In this paper I attempt to outlay a brief and fundamental portrayal of my ideal religion. I will touch upon where it is located and who there would be participants in this religion, what its core/fundamental beliefs are, and why it ought to be practiced or better put, the benefits derived from practicing it. Religious views have often been imposed on members of particular religions around the world and there have been severe consequences exacted on those who chose not participate. Since I’m from the United States, we’ll base our ideal religion from there. America is secular in that it separates church and state as prescribed by the US Constitution. Thomas Jefferson says it best in his endorsement letter of this belief to the Baptists in Dansbury when he wrote: “… [The American people’s] legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.” The most obvious advantage I associate with this belief is, if a sovereign state fully endorses one religion and rejects all others, it will likely alienate its members or even punish nonconformists. This will arise in disunity of the people and disloyalty to the state – potentially creating anarchy. Not only is a union of state and church likely to create intrastate problems, it can also be foreseen to create interstate problems as well. Sovereign

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