To: risk
To represent all religions equally would doom this country to secularism. If you truely feared the LORD, you would acknowledge the neccessity for Protestant doctrine in this country's legal system. Otherwise, you open the floodgates to homosexuality, prostitution, paganism, darwinism, satanism, etc.
To: AmericanFaith
So you're saying that we should revise our constitutional protection for non-Christian Americans, our protection against sectarian influence on government, and our resistance to religiously justified tyranny because we might have some difficulties with law enforcement and cultural values? The founding fathers clearly believed that you would lose both if you lost the latter. You can't enforce spirituality with the government.
9 posted on
08/29/2004 12:14:02 PM PDT by
risk
To: AmericanFaith
Damn pagans. We can't allow them. People would think this was a free country or something.
17 posted on
08/29/2004 5:16:39 PM PDT by
Melas
To: AmericanFaith
Why do you need the "blessing" of the government for YOUR religion, and its power to force others to recognize its "superiority", if it's The Truth? Surely government force is unnecessary. Why does other people believing different things, or not believing anything at all, bother you so much that you want the government to do something about it?
22 posted on
08/29/2004 5:53:27 PM PDT by
Long Cut
(The Constitution...the NATOPS of America!)
To: AmericanFaith
To represent all religions equally would doom this country to secularism. If you truely feared the LORD, you would acknowledge the neccessity for Protestant doctrine in this country's legal system. Otherwise, you open the floodgates to homosexuality, prostitution, paganism, darwinism, satanism, etc. A large percentage (pretty soon a majority) of this country is not Protestant. Following your logic, once another religion (say, Catholicism) becomes the majority, we should enshrine their religious principles into law.
I have a better idea: Let's keep government out of religion, and vice versa.
50 posted on
08/29/2004 8:31:51 PM PDT by
Modernman
(Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.)
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