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To: risk
How can the government be of the people if it demands that they all believe in a particular dogma

It doesn't.

or if it claims to give preference to Christianity

If it does so, then it is because the people's elected representatives have passed such a law. That is government by the people.

90 posted on 04/15/2005 9:19:39 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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Risk wrote:

How can the government be of the people if it demands that they all believe in a particular dogma or if it claims to give preference to Christianity.


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Tailgunner Joe wrote:


If it does so, then it is because the people's elected representatives have passed such a law. That is government by the people.







The 1st Amendment quite clearly restricts our legislators from making any law "respecting an establishment of religion".

Agreed, religious men are free to "influence" [urge/induce], but officials sworn to support the Constitution are not free to make law based on or 'influenced' [caused] by any of the establishments of specific religions.


95 posted on 04/15/2005 9:32:35 PM PDT by P_A_I
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To: Tailgunner Joe
If it does so, then it is because the people's elected representatives have passed such a law. That is government by the people.

So you're saying that the tyranny of the majority wins here, which is exactly what we're fighting when we resist the inanity of the ACLU. If "most people" believe in Christ, then everyone gets to have his legal disposition justified in terms of Christian (whatever the current sect may be) law?

This is absurd, it's far from democratic, and it is by no means fully representative.

Governments cannot be representative and choose the right religion for its constituents.

But while we're arguing this, millions of Islamic and Hindu people are slated to immigrate to America. Billions of dollars are being funneled into universities to teach our young people that there is no reality and morals are never absolute, and Anglo-Saxon culture as manifested in America's republican form of government is by far not the best form of civilization. We're seeing millions of illegal immigrants arriving each decade, and our industries are being outsourced, offshored, and replaced.

You are attacking the symptom of the problem rather than the cause.

97 posted on 04/15/2005 9:42:20 PM PDT by risk
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