Wrote an Article

 Heh, wrote this thing for school & thought it was worth sharing. The assignment was to write an essay to convince congress on the topic of helping out the persecuted churches. I have to say, writing like this to congress was nothing less than interesting. I'd definitely have a hard time reading this out loud in front of congress. It's pretty... uh... cold hearted and harsh. That is all :P 

Abstaining From Excess Spending

By Kayla Hunt

 You say separation of church and state. You obviously don't realize the full impact of it. Now, the gravity of this situation of the persecuted churches isn't felt nearly as hard in America as it is in places like Kazakhstan. My point, is that the persecutors in America are bound within the laws, and can only persecute as far as what is legal. They simply cannot drag a Christian out into the streets and beat them. Fortunately, the American dream of equality and integration makes this illegal, no matter what religion they are. 

 This is because of America’s foundational laws, not because they are sending cash to the churches. I do not believe it is the government’s place to send tax dollars overseas to the persecuted churches. If they decide to do that, the only funding these churches will receive will be financial. This won’t change their government’s protection! Why would we send it? Need I remind you we’re already 14 trillion dollars in debt? By sending this money (that was hard earned by our taxpayers) out to fix a foreign country’s problems, it could cause several immediate issues, as soon as the bill is passed. 

The first would be rebellion. Imagine being that hard working taxpayer, who may not believe in a god. Much less personally support the churches in foreign countries built to such a god. So now the money you earned from the job that you had to work to obtain, is being sent to a cause you don’t agree with. This, from the millions of people with the same cause combined would defiantly ignite a rebellious fire. There is already a great deal of distaste in the mouths of taxpayers towards the U.S. government, why make it worse? 

The second immediate issue, would be that America craves equality. Much like two small children in the toy aisle, the mother buys one a new toy, and the second begins the persistent begging. If we aid Churches of God, the Muslims, atheists, and humanists will surely tag this one not fair. So do we now provide financial aid to the persecuted Muslims? The persecuted Buddhists? And what’s to stop it at religion? Honestly, if we’re going to help the persecuted churches, we may as well help fund their goals & objectives. Such as the belief that women should have the right to avoid their abusive husband, hey, since we’re already funding the churches, lets send some cash to that ministry too. The spending would never end! Like I said, we’re already 14 trillion dollars in debt. We simply cannot afford to fund trivial things like this. 

Third, is the importance you put on separation of church and state, even within our country. 

If all separation of church & state is important,

And we are thinking about merging the boundaries,

Then there’s reason to say this is contradictory to your own beliefs, therefore a foolish endeavor we should abstain from spending excess tax dollars on.