Kasz216 said:
THat premise only holds up if only religion has ever embraced agendas for less then noble reasons. Which... just isn't the case. Outside which... Religion has also often helped democratic progress... and if religion can hold back things in a democracy... well it should. If people care about their relgion, and their religion says something shouldn't happen... people have the right to know their religion wouldn't like such a thing. Trying to infringe on religions freedom of speech is extremely heinous. |
I didn't say "shouldn't be allowed to," i said, "shouldn't." I'm not trying to repress freedom of speech, i'm trying to say that religious figures should avoid becoming invested in particular earthly political causes, for while it can have good benefits sometimes (like the southern churches that helped push Civil Rights in the '60s), ultimately it's distracting from the mission, because as the political class grows aware of religion's usefulness, they will work to twist it to their own ends (sometimes being objectively good ends, yes, but it works dangerously on the matter of faith)
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