[Sudetenland]

Let me guess, you like the idea of a Caliphate, don't you? (not an actual opinion, only a response in kind to your unwarranted personal attack)

I am a very devout Christian, but I do not substitute that for thinking. Christ admonished us to "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." More importantly, in secular matters, the Constitution was designed to prevent a theocracy. If you don't know that, then you need to go read it and the Bill of Rights.

"The First Amendment says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establshment of Religion or the free exercise thereof,..."

That doesn't mean that you cannot place a Nativity set on public property, that doesn't mean you cannot place the 10 commandments in a courthouse, and it doesn't mean that you cannot have prayer services at public schools. It does mean that you cannot have a theocracy. It does mean that we don't have a state run by the church.

By the way, the more I debate you Rudy haters, the more I feel like I am arguing with a Liberal in Conservative clothing. Your argument are emotional and not rational. You take things intentionally out of context, change the direction and topic of conversation anytime someone boxes you in with logic, and you make gigantic unwarranted leaps of logic to personally attack the individual you are debating ("You just don't like religion, do you"). Each and everyone of those are exactly the same tricks I have encountered in debating a Liberal.

One more thing. The Spanish Inquisition was not as deadly as were the killing fields, but it was every bit (if not more so) as repressive as Stalinist Soviet Union, Maoist China, and Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge Cambodia. What is life without freedom and liberty, but enslavement. I will serve no master but one, and Him I will meet as I understand Him, not as you would dictate to me.

[CitizenUSA]

Sudetenland, let me first apologize for saying you don’t like religion. That was over the top, and I’m sorry.

As to the rest of your post, theocracies are not more or even as dangerous as Marxists (historical fact). It’s possible theocracies could be more dangerous, but they haven’t yet proven nearly as capable of destroying human life as the Marxists.

The founders didn’t want a national church, like the Church of England. On the other hand, they placed to right of free religious expression in the constitution. We are in agreement on that matter.

I’m not a Rudy hater. I don’t agree with his politics—he’s no conservative—but I don’t hate him.