Akvod said:
Brun2003 said:
Thats funny 44 signers of the declaration of independence were born again christians. The bill of rights were made to stop the government from damaging religion or the church. They did not want it ran by the church like the roman church basically controled eourpe, but the christian values to be its code i.e. tho shall not murder love your neighbor as yourself. The constitution (democracy) is based off of the christian bible. George Washington said this nation will not survive without God as its cornerstone. Sorry if that offended anyone. Any questions a good movie to watch would be A Nation adrift |
I don't think the founding fathers were evangelical Christians... even when majority of the Colonists were Christian, they went to America because their sect of Christianity were being persecuted against by religiously motivated laws in Europe. You can't just paint all Colonists as "Christians" when there were so many different kinds and sects of them (Puritans, Quakers, etc)
I don't think Democracy is based off of Christianity... a religion that has one ruler of the univerese whose laws and words are final and absolute.
Also George Washington is not infallible or Omniscient.
We cannot have a government, moreover laws and a constitution based off of religious values. If so it raises many questions such as "Which one?". It avoids debates of ethics and morality because, again, the word and law of God are absolute, and the debate will rather be over which religion is right, and which book, religious leader, interpertation, etc are right. Also how can we make others who aren't of the majority religion, practice state sanctioned religious laws? What do we do about the fragmentation within the major religion?
I'm not directing this final paragraph toward you, but I don't understand why religious constervatives hate Iran, and bring up terrorism and Islam so frequently, and yet want to move the country directly in the same paths of those same enemies. Iran is a theocratic democracy, many of their enemy countries incorporate Sharia. Jesus Christ.
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