A few believe the idea of church and state to originate with John Locke, a political philosopher, while many believe it to have grabbed its foothold with Thomas Jefferson’s First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution creating a “wall of separation” between church and state.

Church gives religion to those who choose to believe and the great U.S. states they will not infringe on that as long as the religion does not break any U.S. laws.  What does the state do (great question)?  Here’s what I’ve been told – the seek to create meaningful, secure, and orderly life for its constituents.  Because of the freedom granted to religion, state seeks not to cross this path.

However, recently there have been several instances that I would consider to be overlap of the two.  A few months ago, Sonny Perdue, governor of the state of Georgia, asked for mega church ministers to open their [accounting] books to the State for review.  This was brought on by several members complaining of the money they were giving to the church were being misappropriated.  A few ministers asked to come forward were Creflo Dollar of World Changers Ministries and Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.  Creflo complied with the request, but Eddie did not.

One has to wonder if church and state really exists, then how can this come to be.  Why would state governors make such a request of the mega church ministers?

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