The political "Top" is different from the religious "Top"

The political 'Top' is a place of honor and respect for the People because it has a 'conferred' power and a 'conferred' authority. But, it gets the power and authority from the political Bottom and that power is Constitutional and secular. Recent issues concerning the place of religion in Constitutional government are being re-visited by the Supreme Court. That's an issue that was properly handled when the First Amendment was passed. Of course, the Amendment confers only a 'freedom of religion' and specific issues will arise and must be resolved as they arise. The basic problematic is that religion, like secular government, is also a relation of the Top and the Bottom. But, there are great differences. The most obvious is the fact that a government "of people", "by People" and "for People", is a "People" government. There is no question as to where the political power to govern is coming from and who is conferring it. In religion, the One, 'at the Top', is a 'Divinity', in whatever form the individual chooses to believe in. In such a case, the One is a 'mystery' or an undefinable source of spiritual power. In such a situation, the One, or the 'Divinity', is never clearly defined. That's why, there are many different religious belief systems; however, the property they all have in common is that they apply to the 'spiritual realm', not the secular realm. Hence, no religious belief system could possibly govern the secular part of life; because the source of spiritual power is never clearly defined. The Middle Ages tried it with the Divine Right of Kings theory of government and they resolved the issue by saying that "the King had two bodies", one was 'secular'; the other 'ecclesiastical'. That didn't work for long. Religious issues belong in the spiritual realm; not the secular realm; even though religious 'warfare' is similar to so-called "class-warfare". Interestingly enough, religious 'warfare' has the same 'form' in religion as "class warfare" has in the secular, or political. In each case, its a 'selected few' telling 'everyone' how to 'believe'; and in the other, telling 'everyone' how to 'live'; one is religious, while the other is secular, but that 'value' system in the secular, is economic, not democratic. Religious values and economic values must not be co-mingled with democratic values.