Until we begin agreeing, as a nation, what the standard is, you will have a hard time selling personal responsibility.Not really. There's a pretty big range between "don't kill" and "don't steal" to "don't have sex in non-permitted manners" or "don't smoke those leaves". "Don't intentionally harm others or put them at risk" is something just about all of us can agree on, and indeed something no nation can survive without.
This country was founded on the principles and morals of the Christian Bible.Then why doesn't the Constitution say that? Why does it protect the right to violate at least three of the Ten Commandments?
If anyone wants to question that part of American Culture they need to find a country where the President doesn't take his oath of office on the Christian Bible.Did you know the President is not even legally required to add "so help me, God" at the end, let alone use the Bible? Both are tradition, not law.
Until we declare from the rooftops, this is a Christian society based on scriptural principles, if you want to live in our nation abide by these standards.We are a free nation that consists of several "societies". The reason these societies co-exist in peace is because religious matters were placed outside the domain of government, and none of these societies can pass laws forcing the others to live according to their beliefs.
Christian principles were only one of the building blocks of our nation. English common law was equally important. Yet as Jefferson observed, the common law predated Christianity in England.
What do we think the Constitution and our Declaration of Independence are all about anyway?The Declaration was written by a man who did not believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. The Constitution nowhere mentions any deity, or the Bible, except when it uses the normal dating convention of the era.
-Eric