"I dont think Christians are getting in every one's face with their religion"
Are you kidding, Christians have always been interested with controlling all aspects of our lives down to what goes on behind closed doors in our bedrooms. However in the past most would not say anything for fear of being ostracized from the community.
However today that is not as much the case, in part due to the information age, as people are realizing that they have more choices in religion than simply electing to be a Christian. Which I personally find Christianity to be a very regressive religion, as many others are beginning to discover, and hence the decline in church attendance and membership, but to each his own.
The argument that persons such as myself want to outlaw Christianity is simply delusional and demonstrates a lack of understanding of current societal changes. We just don't want Christians driving the mores of society and imposing their particular belief system on others by government coercion. If they want to follow that belief system themselves and think that they derive a benefit from doing such, then more power to them. However don't assume that I must do the same.
Personally I am convinced that the religious right of the party is the main impediment to party growth today. There are many who would vote Republican except they see the religious right as radicals and zealots and do not want to be associated with them. Fortunately they tend to just not vote as opposed to voting democrat.
For further insight see today's WSJ front page article.
The argument that persons such as myself want to outlaw Christianity is simply delusional and demonstrates a lack of understanding of current societal changes. We just don't want Christians driving the mores of society and imposing their particular belief system on others by government coercion. If they want to follow that belief system themselves and think that they derive a benefit from doing such, then more power to them. However don't assume that I must do the same.
I think that you are the delusional one, for the foundation of the things you want and believe in the United States are Christian-based. It was and continues to be the insistance of Christians in having their place at the public policy table that balanaces the pagan based excesses that lead to such atrocities as Nazism, and communism.
The argument that persons such as myself want to outlaw Christianity is simply delusional and demonstrates a lack of understanding of current societal changes. We just don't want Christians driving the mores of society and imposing their particular belief system on others by government coercion. If they want to follow that belief system themselves and think that they derive a benefit from doing such, then more power to them. However don't assume that I must do the same.
I think that you are the delusional one, for the foundation of the things you want and believe in the United States are Christian-based. It was and continues to be the insistance of Christians in having their place at the public policy table that balanaces the pagan based excesses that lead to such atrocities as Nazism, and communism.