Can you perhaps relate to me, other than persuasion, what authority Religion possesses absent the authority of the State?
Can you perhaps relate to me, other than persuasion, what authority Religion possesses absent the authority of the State?
Clearly the authority of a State religion is one of the founding principles of our nation.
Religion, and Christianity specifically, purports no authority for acceptance.
Defining authority is the question.
I can't tell you how many people I know that grew up in a bible believing, bible banging home that have fled THAT AUTHORITY.
There comes a time in which thoughtful individuals find for themselves the true nature of life.
Once that is found, there is only God.
Well, actually we have only two choices:
God created everything we know
or
We, on this planet were seeded by aliens.
While I contemplate the nature of understanding and the atoms of existence, the space between my thoughts have no rivals.