crazy christians: make the Church "the dominant influence in America"

trendlover · Sep 20, 2011

Like the poster Spiker say, the thread title say "make the church the dominant influence in America"
You have the separation of church and state in the USA. You have your constitution to protect FREEDOM. You have want religious people to make laws for you to obey. You want to be Iran?

peilthetraveler · Sep 21, 2011

Quote from trendlover:

Like the poster Spiker say, the thread title say "make the church the dominant influence in America"
You have the separation of church and state in the USA. You have your constitution to protect FREEDOM. You have want religious people to make laws for you to obey. You want to be Iran?

No, religious people can't make laws. Only God makes laws and he only gave us 10 of them. How many millions of laws does the US government have for you?

And the great thing is...with Christianity, if you break the law, you have Christ who already paid the fine and served the sentence for you.

Spike Trader · Sep 21, 2011

Quote from peilthetraveler:

No, religious people can't make laws. Only God makes laws and he only gave us 10 of them. How many millions of laws does the US government have for you?

And the great thing is...with Christianity, if you break the law, you have Christ who already paid the fine and served the sentence for you.

This is the kind of reasoning that some of us find hard to come to grips with.

acronym · Sep 21, 2011

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Isnt it interesting how atheists have that hate relationship with Christianity. They say nothing about Islam. Nothing about hinduism. Nothing about buddism. Nothing about Sikhism. Nothing about Rastafarianism. Nothing about Wicca. Nothing about Satanism....

The only thing that they cant stand is Christianity. What is it about Christianity that just sets a fire on them?

Cough, cough, "ahem, ahem". Cough cough.

Free Thinker · Sep 21, 2011

Quote from acronym:

Cough, cough, "ahem, ahem". Cough cough.

would we want to have a country run like most muslim countries? that is where the Church "the dominant influence in America" takes you.

AAAintheBeltway · Sep 21, 2011

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would we want to have a country run like most muslim countries? that is where the Church "the dominant influence in America" takes you.

So you see this country for its first 150 or so years as basically being no different from Iran or taliban-run Afghanistan?

stu · Sep 21, 2011

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

So you see this country for its first 150 or so years as basically being no different from Iran or taliban-run Afghanistan?

That's just ridiculous. This country has been a constitutionally secular nation under law for all of those 150 years and the rest.
Simply because some christians want to think christianity is the be all and end all of everything does not make it so.

murray t turtle · Sep 21, 2011

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Religion is ...; spread by the wise;

Intellectual honesty is a skill that has to be learned and a virtue that has to be practiced; it often requires you to accept unpleasant conclusions. (John B. Hodges)

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Thats a pattern worth repeating;
Free T, when do you plan to start??.

Especially worth asking again since early American history...;
the Bible believing[old testament/new testament ]church was the ''dominant influence in America''

murray TT