Posted on 09/22/2017 3:08:34 PM PDT by sparklite2
By all means. Better expressed through better writing.
He can believe that if he wants but I respectfully disagree.
And “you must be a member of the local church to be a christian” is just like the old rule of some congregations, especially in the late 1700s and early 1800s that limited communion to only members of that congregation, even if you were a member of the same domination, you could NOT take communion with them.
He’s a foreigner. Where he came from religious freedom was not a civic and cultural concept.
It is clear by the declaration of independence that our founders knew who God is and was.
They just believed that people had a right to worship him the way they believed they should, it is no business of congress.
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