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(13,110 posts)If only all branches of government would enforce the Separation of Church and State.
Unfortunately, those in control have an agenda !!!!!!!!
They have been working on this for 6 or 7 decades.
Their agenda is a Christian Theocracy controlled by corporations !!!!!!!!!
They don't believe in religious freedom.
They believe in Christian Theocracy.
They don't believe in government.
They believe corporations should have control, not government.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)lastlib
(23,271 posts)...in the church of their choice.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)We had a plaque on the wall many homes and moves ago that said something like; "The lover allows the beloved to be free." The plaque is long gone but the love has not only survived but grown.
John1956PA
(2,656 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,880 posts)Religious freedom? ...
Cool: I must / cannot do it because of my religious beliefs.
..... I decide for myself.
Cool?: You must / cannot do it because of my religious beliefs.
..... I decide for you.
Uncool?: I must / cannot do it because of your religious beliefs.
..... You decide for me?
Igel
(35,343 posts)The rest is losing the distinction between positive and negative rights, imposing a passive and often easily avoidable obligation on others versus imposing an active and often unavoidable obligation on others. We also tend to find new rights that suit our current, immediate needs and dispose of other, older rights that we personally don't value.
So we have people saying that their right not to hear something is much more important than the right of others to speak. Their right not to be offended is greater than freedom of assembly. Their right to services is greater than the right to freedom of religion (here shown as "freedom to worship in private so that it doesn't affect me" .
I saw a sign in a school recently that bothered me. In the very narrow context of the school, it's only partly true; outside the school, not so much. And the way it was presented it was mis-education: "You have the right to be heard and the obligation to listen to others." That's not freedom of speech, that's the right to impose speech on others.
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)That was pretty much Jesus' message.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)there must have been a hundred trump/pence signs out front, it was a polling place, so I figure the xtians worship trump.
Permanut
(5,625 posts)that this is a 'Christian" nation. Been doing it since 1776, but now they have social media and boatloads of money.
That's why God is mentioned so often in the Constitution. Oh, wait..