The C in Courts is Church.
*still in process of edits*
The first clause in the Bill of Rights states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”
This is seen as the separation of Church and State. This is the establishment clause. Although it isn’t explicitly stated in the First Amendment, it is interpreted by the Constitution as the requirement to have a separation between Church and State.
Many people don’t know this because many people would unanimously agree that there is no separation between church and state. The church and state is integrally intertwined with one another. The Church is the foundations to the State in America. And then, America’s courts influence the Courts globally which then makes the Church turn into the foundations of courts globally.
The backbone:
- There is a Clear Integration of Church and State
- The State then becomes the Church, and the Church becomes the State
- The State in America influences the State in many countries, vice versa
- The Church then becomes integrated globally across the world
- The Church recognizes that Hell — a permanent state is integrated within the State
- Globally, the idea of “Hell” is placed as a societal norm construct amongst the entire world
- The erasure of indigenous cultures, practices, and ways of life
- The erasure of gray critical-analysis thinking. The solidification of simplistic-Black & White thinking.
We will first go into the first statement —
There is a Clear Integration of Church and State
The Court system that we use today in America, were borrowed from England’s ‘Common Law’.
William Murray Lord Mansfield, Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, in the 1780’s declared- “The eternal principles of natural religion are part of the common law ; the essential principles of revealed religion are part of the common law; so that any person reviling, subverting or ridiculing them, may be prosecuted at common law.” John Campbell, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, adds in: “This, I think, is the true sense of the oft-repeated maxim, that ‘Christianity is part and parcel of the common law of England.’”
Common law was and still is the foundations of the Court systems we see in place today. We have yet to have any Supreme Court Justices whom identify with the religions of Mormons, Pentecostals, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs. Christianity and Judaic influences held that God created the world, established certain moral laws, and people breaking these laws could lead to them undergoing suffering and punishment. U.S. criminal laws are rooted in these Judeo-Christian values derived from these moral standards and punishments are set for breaking them. The moralities that were drafted by these values were then integrated amongst every part of our legal systems.
2. The State then becomes the Church, and the Church becomes the State
Moving into our next section, we recognize that America’s State influences then pass over into a Global scale. Globally, courts are cited amongst one another. In an increasingly connected world, with instant communications and expedited trade, the steady operation of American laws depends more on the cooperation of other jurisdictions than at any other time in the country’s history.
3. The State in America influences the State in many countries, vice versa
As a reminder to folks who are simply thinking Christians are bad people, no. Some of my best friends are Christians, and the most genuinely kindest people I know. Rather, I’d compare it to Whiteness, from a critical race theory perspective. Of course, we all have a White best friend — and recognize that Whiteness is different from a White person. From CRT, we look at Whiteness and how it impacted all of the structures around us, and especially us (from an internal point of view as well and the violent dangerous things we have to unlearn). We live in a Judeo-Christian dominated-world, and being critical and analyzing how indigenous ways of life/spiritualities/religions/practices have been diminished is a needed conversation. While we uplift and center Blackness and Queerness, centering indigenous ways/thinking of life is connected with CRT lens. An everyday thought, how can we socially construct so everyone’s needs are met? We live in a world with an abundance of abundance.
When we diminish other ways of life, we also diminish having a variety of thoughts and ideas. If we also recognize that this system we are operating under is failing us — as we see currently — then it is also important to change and adapt. The United States has the largest prison population in the world, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate. This system is violent and brutal. As of June 2020, the United States had the highest number of incarcerated individuals worldwide, with more than 2.12 million people in prison. The U.S. was followed by China, Brazil, and the Russian Federation. Within OECD countries, the United States had the highest rate of incarceration worldwide, at 655 prisoners per 100,000 residents. This is almost double that of Turkey, the country with the second highest incarceration rate.
Judeo-Christian Courts aren’t working. Good versus Evil thinking isn’t working.
