[R. Scott]

I have seen a lot of name calling on the religious threads – I try to refrain from doing so myself.
While many would not want to change our Constitution, they would like to apply their own interpratation to it, and integrate their own religious ideology into the functional government.
I believe that the religious should be in the realm of the spirit, and government has no business interfering – either by mandating a religious practice or by forbidding a religious practice.

[Dr. Good Will Hunting]

...or by forbidding a religious practice.

And yet this they do, forbidding even student-led, student-initiated prayer at high school football games.

[RnMomof7]

I believe that the religious should be in the realm of the spirit, and government has no business interfering – either by mandating a religious practice or by forbidding a religious practice.

We agree..do you know that there are alot of Christian libertarians? There have been some threads posted by OrthodoxPresbyterian to that topic as of late.

The threat my friend, comes from those that would silence religious speech of any kind because they are uncomfortable with it

That is rarely true of a Christian that knows he stands on the Rock that is higher than he is!

[rwfromkansas]

Yep, heaven forbid we prohibit human sacrifices. Just kidding, I know you would be in favor of keeping that outlawed because it violates the sacrificee's right to life.

But seriously, I am another person who would support a theocracy because I believe this is God's will for govt. However, he does not force this on a people either, they need to covenant together to mutually agree to lift him up even in their govt and laws. It is completely unbibilical to force a nation to do this without a covenant made by the people toward God to do so and thus, I would be against such a theocracy in America. Now, if a group in America splintered off and formed their own nation to do this, that is fine and I might just join them. I love America, but I would like to see a nation that exalts Christ in all its ways. The way Christianity used to be, there definitely could be the threat of despotism getting in, but the way things are now, I think if there were checks to keep corruption from coming, such a nation would be a light to the world and would be the first theocracy to work in teh modern age. Islamic theocracies are repressive regimes...I can't see that in a modern Christian theocracy if one would spring up. I recall a nation in Africa that recently as acknowledged itself as the one Christian nation in the world...I forgot which country it was though. It would be fascinating to compare it to Sudan.