I know I should be more positive and compassionate when reflecting on the shift that occurs in the church. After all, Charlemagne's reign gives us most of the written word that we have today; so there are benefits to the fact that Christianity became the legalized state nation. But as convenient as we try to convince ourselves it is that we can freely worship our Lord, my thoughts continually revert to the fact that perhaps state and church are supposed to be separate. While attending Biola, there were many opinions that the idea of separation of church and state was a secular principal and that we need to pray against it and fight to preserve that Christianity is what this nation was founded on. But is this really true? What good has come from the joining of these two and what scripture passage supports this idea? As Dr. Bolger shared in class, our priority as believers is that the message of the gospel spreads throughout all the regions of the world - if you have a message of salvation, why wouldn't this be a priority? But is the means of partnering with government supposed to be the method? Is it really vital that we have a president in power who "believes" in the Judeo-Christian God? Unfortunately, it seems that after every class, my list of questions is growing while my list of answers is still at #1.