I would like to start that I am in no way trying to “bash” or hate on religion, this is just the way I feel on this subject:
While not agreeing with the way it was presented, I can see the point that GMA (through very bad presentation) was trying to make.
The reason I say that is because not everybody wants to have religion crammed down their gullets, and sometimes that is what it feels like when somebody makes an attempt to limit your freedoms due to their religious convictions.
Frankly I don't care what you believe or don't believe; just keep your hands off my wallet ~ it's sacred to me.
Those people aren't real Christians because Jesus never taught or embraced beating people over the head with religion. His was by example. He was very gentle but firm in His beliefs.
“While not agreeing with the way it was presented, I can see the point that GMA (through very bad presentation) was trying to make.”
Although I don’t agree with they way they presented it, I tend to agree. The problem with this is mainly in the MSM depiction of this “rising Christian right”.
That said, these MSM-proclaimed “evangelical leaders” don’t do much to help the situation. Many preach a new form of social conservatism enforced through force of government. I say to FReepers, be careful what you wish for and by what means you employ to see those wishes to fruition. Dangerous ground here.
The homosexual agenda is forced down our throats too by the MSM, courts, corporate America, etc (but surprisingly little action by the LEGISTATURE, which is part of why the issue is still a sore spot for many people, it was foced upon us without consensus).
Doesn’t seem to have soured the public’s tv viewing habits, beer thirst, support of Ford Motors, applications for colleges, etc.
Its somewhat ironic that the policies of the atheists to legalize their belief and outlaw those of others is the same policy used by zealots who seek to influence worldly affairs with their religious devotion.
Christianity is the only faith which promotes life, instead of worldly systems which acquisition death.
I’m sure there are those out there cramming their beliefs down other’s throats, but I can’t understand how a typical Christian’s rights, exercised in public, somehow means another’s rights and freedoms are being suppressed.
For instance...if Christmas is banned from public schools (often while other religions get a free pass), how was it all those prior years that Christian kids celebrating Christmas in various forms somehow harmed another non-Christian kid?
If a Christmas tree is displayed in a town square, or a cross on public land, etc. how does that limit another’s freedoms?
If Under God is in the Pledge, how does that “harm” or suppress the freedom’s of one that doesn’t believe in God?
In other words, if an atheist doesn’t even BELIEVE there’s a God, how can another person’s belief in something that doesn’t exist HARM them or impinge on their rights or freedom’s not to believe?
I’m sure there are examples, but for the vast majority of cases I’ve seen, the very opposite has been true. A concerted effort is being made to remove Christianity from the public(again while giving other religions a free pass).
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