[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

And from hence is the present open hostility towards the traditionally dominated "Christian" America from the ever rising neo-pagan movement and it's tools -- the NEA, TV and Barnes & Noble's New Age "teachers", and Secular Humanists. If the positions of cultural and political "dominance" were to be reversed, the days of Paul's Rome would return pronto for Christians AND all other Deistic religions as well.

No... "deistic religions" would be tolerated.

After all... as rev. Steve Schlissel relates:

This was the issue that lead to the slaughter of Christians for 300 years in the Roman Empire, because they refused to pay homage to Caesar. And they were told to just burn a little incense. You don’t even have to mean it. They said that they would not even give the indication that there is anyone above Christ. We will be loyal citizens. We will do what the law says. But we will not pay homage to another lord. Jesus is Lord. ~~Schlissel

State Religion has always been willing to tolerate "Deistic Religion", after all... you only have to burn a little incense. You don't even have to mean it.
What is that to the Deist? No great thing. A minor ceremony, of little consequence to his far-off, mechanical "God".

But to the Christian, it means that we have to RADICALLY re-adjust our thinking.

As just two examples...

• No more Social Security. (Messiah Jesus forbids Theft. Eighth Commandment.).
• No more Public Education. (Messiah Jesus forbids surrendering our children to slavery. Fifth Commandment)

Have we been taking the EASY way out? Have we IMAGINED that we will make the Messiah-State "better" (what a LIE) by opposing the degeneracy and pornographism and evolutionism of Public Schools, when we ought NOT to subject our Covenant Children to these hell-prisons in the first place??

I wonder. I really do. Where is our focus??

[F16Fighter]

"No...'deistic religions' would be tolerated."

As long as IT were by State imposed decree; IT's authority superceded all others; and there weren't too many "pesky" conditions to abide by.

"Where is our focus?"

Our "focus" is on this political/cultural/religious obsession with "inclusivity" and "tolerance" -- afterall, NO religion is anymore valid then any other -- including Wicca, Scientology, Satanism. And as Al Gore once reminded us, everyone essentially prays and worships a "higher power" in the final analysis afterall, don't we? ;-)