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To: nomasmojarras
I am a Christian. I believe that all governments should obey Christ and submit to him, as he is the head of the church and ruler of the world. In fact, Scripture states in Romans very clearly that the govt. is the "sword of God" etc. A secular govt. is quite contary to what is exemplified in Scripture, even in the NT. Am I pushing for this in America now? Not until and unless people have a change of heart and come back to Christ and God. But that does not change my conviction on what govt. should be. At the same time, I am not pushing for some Muslim-esque theocracy where people are executed for dancing on Sunday or something.

What I AM pushing for even without the nation truly reforming to Christ yet is a return to teh founder's views on religion in public...which are more right wing than even myself on this issue since well, Jefferson and Madison had a bill in Virginia that they wrote and introduced (it ended up passing) to punish Sabbath breakers. The funny thing is, this was in the same day they put in a bill establishing religious freedom. So, what I am pushing for is prayer in schools, the Ten Commandments being posted, doctrinal classes on basic Christian principles that all the denominations can agree on. However, at the same time, I would allow people to exempt out of the prayer and doctrine classes. AFter all, as a Calvinist Christian, I understand that it is not what I do that saves anyone, but only the working of the Holy Spirit, which does what it pleases WHEN and HOW it pleases and it is contrary to Scripture to force unbelievers to learn about God in such a forced manner..and quite frankly, it stinks in God's nostrils to have unbelievers pray to him as some ritual when they don't believe in him!

93 posted on 11/18/2001 8:03:12 PM PST by rwfromkansas
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