[metmom]

The slippery slope is the one this country is on as it abandons Christian values and adopts an anything goes philosophy. We are not heading to a religionless society as we abandon Christian values, we're merely trading them for a philosophy that has no basis for the constraints it imposes. The result will be anarchy.

Universal? Where?

Across the whole world for virtually all of recorded history and in virtually all cultures and religions. Of course, there are going to be groups who advocate it and occasionally have some success but that is not the norm, just as homosexuality is not the norm.

Basing constraints purely on religious grounds will not better society, nor individual lives and so should be avoided.

Of course it will better society, if it's based on the Judeo-Christian religion. That's been demonstrated time and again throughout history. If it should be avoided, then on what do you propose to base constraints on? Popular opinion? Whatever whoever is in power feels like that day? The phase of the moon?

A Theocracy wants to impose constraints not in an attempt to better society, and consequently lives, but to limit actions to a very narrow, easily controlled range. Authority is useful and necessary, but damned scary in the hands of religions.

That's a bunch of poppycock, to put it nicely. Abuse of authority is not a religious issue, it's a human nature issue. It's scary in the hands of anyone with unbridled power. Tell that to the people who lived under Stalin, Lenin, Pol Pot, or any other atheistic dictator of choice. Authority is scary in the hands of someone with no constraints on their behavior, in the hands of the atheist as well as the corrupt politician who may choose to hide behind the cloak of religion. Christianity puts moral constraints on people's behavior to prevent evil. That's why a government based on Christianity's moral constraints will be successful and free.

You clearly know nothing of Christianity of you lump it together with all the other religions of the world and blame it along with all the other religions of the world, for all the worlds ills.

[disrgr]

You clearly know nothing of Christianity of you lump it together with all the other religions of the world and blame it along with all the other religions of the world, for all the worlds ills.

So is it your position that Christianity should not be lumped "together with all the other religions of the world"? Do you believe, then, that religion has played no part in "all the worlds ills"? Not trying to be abrasive, here, but I find this stance intriguing. :)

Sincerely,

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