[Texasforever]

It would really help if believers and non-believers could just leave each other alone. Neither side is going to "win" the argument and neither side is ever going to take over the country.

[Storm Orphan]

Too true.

[Uriel1975]

It would really help if believers and non-believers could just leave each other alone. Neither side is going to "win" the argument and neither side is ever going to take over the country.

The main problem -- politically -- is the very fact that the argument is even being phrased in terms of "taking over" the country.

I hold my old university Chancellor (Jerry Falwell) and his fellows at least partially responsible for this totalitarian-esque departure from the Founders' vision...

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here. -- Patrick Henry

[L,TOWM]

It would really help if believers and non-believers could just leave each other alone. Neither side is going to "win" the argument and neither side is ever going to take over the country.

I can't quite do that, but I can try to talk to you about why I am now a fundamentalist Christian (with a distinct Libertarian political bent) and no longer a Randian Objectivist (atheism and all). Of course it is required that I do this with "gentleness and respect" (IPeter 3:15)

I will talk to you about G-d until you tell me to bugger off, not because I hate you, but because I am no more deserving of redemption than you are, and you should have the same chances I got to hear G-d's Good News.

I love this nation; I can pray, you can decline, and we can each defend to the death the right of the other to be free to choose. (If one of us "fundies" gets too aggressive, tell him flat out--its a good way to tell who's been reading their Bible ;-) )