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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDear Conservatives: If You Want to Live in a Theocracy, Get the Hell Out of the United States
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/dear-conservatives-want-live-theocracy-get-hell-united-states/See, in this country, religion is meant to be a private matter. After all, isnt that much simpler? Even those who believe that this country was founded on Christianity cant tell me what denomination we should follow. Because the fact of the matter is, Catholics and Baptists (while both Christians) practice their faiths very differently.
Religious freedom, as conservatives like to call it, means that privately were allowed to identify with whatever religion we want to identify with. That doesnt mean, however, that were allowed to discriminate against people just because we disagree with them.
Our Constitution, as subjective as it might be, presents one undeniable fact the words Christianity, Christian, God or Jesus Christ appear within its text not even once.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Unfortunately, the Christian theocracies seem to have faded away. Some of the small towns in Utah and Idaho are de facto Mormon theocracies, but that's unofficial. Still, if it's important to a person to be able to punish sinners, it should be worth the price of converting to Islam and moving to Saudi Arabia, for example.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)It's the HEIGHT of hubris for believers of mythology to think they should have any kind of say in 2016 governing. Or 1986 governing or whenever. Patently ridiculous.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)Augiedog
(2,548 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)Almost every Atheist I meet was raised in a religious family and had to pretend they believed because of the repercussions they faced.
You have to be brave telling people you lack belief in god, you could get yourself killed.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Is being FROM Texas.
There are wonderful things about Texas -- from the best barbecue in the world to the lush forests to the incredible, amazing people -- but living there again just isn't something I can't picture.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)lark
(23,108 posts)If there are, they won't get it. They definitely want a theocracy, but only for their faith or ones similar to it. They decry Sharia law, but want to make their beliefs the LAW. They don't understand that they are total hypocrites and have no clue about the constitution and that it in zero ways supports the beliefs they want to push on everyone else.
Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)the US. Super nature, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Secularism is mythical : you each have your own bizarre personal religion.
Islam would fill the gap, if you managed to get rid of Christianity as your country's cultural ethos, and then where would you be ? They'd make short work of the satanists for a kick-off.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)Wednesdays
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stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)I wish the Supreme Court would use that as the scale, instead of protecting religious believers/institutions even when their actions
deny others their constitutional rights. Obviously the contradiction between "the religion loophole" and women's rights is appalling.
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Why do these people not understand that their own religious freedom depends on the First Amendment too - if another religion became dominate, they could be truly persecuted in the system they advocate.
Initech
(100,081 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)there is no freedom OF religion.
linuxman
(2,337 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)stop writing and passing laws based on religious teachings and more on science and real socio-economic principles.
The whole abortion debate is really a "freedom from religion" issue to me. There is no medical science that says it should be anything but the choice of the woman in consultation with her doctor. I know a lot of people claim that it isn't based on religion, but I know that without support of the RW religious types, this would have been a non-issue 40 years ago.
There are many issues which get subtly affected by religious belief, and I'd like to see that reined in.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,010 posts)Further, there are many idiots who are paranoid about Sharia law being instituted in the US and even say Obama is doing just that.
If they don't want Sharia law, they must respect people who don't want christian law or judaic law or satanic law.
DLevine
(1,788 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)So many are brainwashed when quite young and buy in. Others buy in later.
Despite what some think none of us really know the truth of reality or what, if anything, happens when we die. I know this much....something springing out of nothing seems a huge reach, so there is something we don't understand about the whole thing.