This article looks at religion as a major cause of violence and as the main motivation of violence in the community. It also examines the hits and misses by the state in respecting the right to religion, belief and opinion. A general argument emerges based on decided cases, constitutional provisions and, the state and church activities in Kenya as to whether there exists a clear separation between the church and the state in Kenya, and whether Article 8 of the 2010 constitution has been fully actualized.
The relationship between church and state, and the need to separate them is something of concern to the present generation. In the past, there have been a struggle between secular and religious power in many states, until the fourteenth (14) century when countries in the world began to expressly state in their constitutions that, ‘the state is secular.