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To: nonsporting
My question remains: I publicly declare myself an atheist. What punishment (if any) do you advocate that the State impose on me, were it up to you?

Related question: would such punishments also apply to those of other faiths (Hindus, Muslims, Pagans etc.)?

86 posted on 11/19/2018 10:14:51 AM PST by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
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To: Simon Green
My question remains: I publicly declare myself an atheist. What punishment (if any) do you advocate that the State impose on me, were it up to you?

You are just now introducing your question. But I will answer it: "None."

Related question: would such punishments also apply to those of other faiths (Hindus, Muslims, Pagans etc.)?

Only if one's practices violate laws against murder, assault, rape, theft, false witness, sexual deviancy and the sexual exploitation of children, etc., would there be legal consequences. Everyone must be accountable to one set of laws, not different legal traditions (e.g. Sharia Law).

The predominantly Christian men who founded this nation instituted a secular state, not a theocracy, but one informed by the Christian religion, laws, customs and wisdom of the Bible. (They all knew it and read it.) This is the basis for self-government and affords the greatest amount of personal freedom.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

(Message from John Adams to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massacusetts) John Adams October 11, 1798

87 posted on 11/20/2018 3:50:31 AM PST by nonsporting (MAGA -- Make America Godly Again)
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To: Simon Green
My question remains: I publicly declare myself an atheist. What punishment (if any) do you advocate that the State impose on me, were it up to you?

What I find disturbing about you question is its presumption that Christians want to kill unbelievers. Nothing could be further from the truth.

We Christians have been commanded by Jesus to take the gospel to all people. The mechanism for reaching unbelievers is *preaching* the good news that men do not have to die in their sins. Our weapons are spiritual not physical. Christ suffered death on the cross to atone for all sin. Forgiveness can be appropriated by receiving his sacrifice through the righteousness of faith. Men can avoid eternal torment and become joint heirs with the risen Christ.

It's hard to reach the lost with the good news, if we kill them. Every Christian was at one point an unbeliever. Many have heard the gospel, or various aspects of it, many times before coming to faith. Thank God that He is longsuffering and his followers are faithful in their perseverance.

When Love Came Down

88 posted on 11/20/2018 10:54:41 AM PST by nonsporting (MAGA -- Make America Godly Again)
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To: Simon Green

“What punishment (if any) do you advocate that the State impose on me, were it up to you? “

Why do you assume anyone wants to punish you? To you have a fetish? An inferiority complex? A liberal brainwashing issue?


89 posted on 11/21/2018 5:10:54 AM PST by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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