Your homeland was the birthplace of most of the western world’s psychology, i.e. the way we think, patterns of thinking and so on. Additionally, the methods of its analysis were used, also, in the development of social-political, and the social theological, beliefs and conditioning in Europe, where you live.
It is not necessary to study all of these people, in-depth, but it may-be important, to you, to know something about how your own ideas form, in your own mind, and how they are influenced from within yourself by others, and from without, by others. Many of life’s Social Theological Conditioning Methods, as well as others, were imprinted and imparted to us before we were born into this particular life.
The Separation of Church and State
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...." Down loaded on 02251213 from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation ... ted_States
Pussy Riot illustrated through art, how the church influences and projects power over the state. Art is an expression/interpretation, of life on earth, pornography is art and art is porn, a vivid emotional expression of joy, sexuality, love, struggle, competition, and relationship, casual fucking, and so on. The Church has no authority over its use or definition because, it is, (art) both one’s expression and interpretation, it is the human-condition. All of which, we have place on our selves. We are all expressions of our selves, projecting out ward. Art is, “copulating and capitulating in unsent with one’s own spirituality”.(King, 2013)
I smile at the sunrise where I live, and I never forget how the innocent, too often, pay and have paid, for their own human-emotional expression with their very lives. Respect the dead they have a lot to say about the living. That would include the living Pope and Church and State.
Be well.