Why do Conservative Christians support an amendment to ban (US)flag burning but not one banning bible burning?

Question

Are they Flag worshipers?
Do they care more about the flag than the bible?

When was the last time you saw a US citizen burning the flag?

Answer 1

dont look for sense or consistency among religious people ,you will be disapointed

Answer 2

I am a born again Christian and I do not support an amendment to ban flag burning or Bible burning. I don't worship either. I worship the one true God. The freedom to express dissent is part of what makes America what it is. I think the KKK are idiots and bigots but I they have the right to burn crosses. Anything that restricts freedom of expression might be used at some point to restrict my freedom as a Christian to share my faith and my beliefs. If we want to be able to maintain our freedom to share our beliefs we must be willing to accept that others have the right to share beliefs that differ from ours.

Answer 3

Because it is a symbol. Symbols play an important role in the subconcious mind. That symbol stirs ppl to unity and submission in many ways. They have also adopted it to mean christianity as they would have you believe we were founded as a christian nation. However, if we were to set up a nationwide bible burning action to say....protest scripture being put upon govt buildings...they would quickly respond with another ban.

Answer 4

How can you compare the two? The flag issue is about being an American. We respect our flag, just as we respect our country. We also respect Americans' freedom to choose which religion to practice.

Answer 5

Maybe cuz flag burning is waay unpatriotic and no one cares about the bible

Answer 6

Because the nut job haters WANT to burn flags.
When was the last Bible Burning reported in the news?

Answer 7

maybe they don't know that people burn bibles. i can't really say that i have, but i have thrown it out of a moving car.

Answer 8

They are using the guises of patriotism and morality to hide their traitorous intentions to overthrow the US Government and commit murder on a global scale in service of their evil God.

Conservatives and the religious right want to destroy the real America and replace it with a Theocratic government based on the evil morality of their evil white-trash Christian God.

This is hardly the first time Christians have tried to undermine the government and overthrow the country. In 1864, 1874, 1896 and 1911, they tried to pass amendments that would rewrite the Constitution to include references to God. Furthermore, there has never been a time in the history of Christianity when it had political power and did not use it for evil purposes.

And today’s Christian terrorists wish America harm as well. On 9/11 both Falwell And Robertson said that God had brought down the trade towers and killed 3,000 because he was angry with America and that we deserved it because we had brought it on ourselves. Of course, on 9/12 they began denying it when it became clear that most Americans were not in the mood for that kind of talk.

Our Founding Fathers purposefully and with intent exclude all religion from the US Government. There is not a single reference to God, Christianity, or Jesus anywhere in the US Constitution – the document that defines and is the foundation of our secular democratic republic and is the basis of American society.

In 1797 the US Congress passes by unanimous vote (only the 3rd time ever) and without objection the following clarifying statement:

“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion”

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm

The Founding Fathers, and all of America’s greatest leaders, were clear in their feelings that religion did not belong, in any form or manner, in the government and public affairs of the American people.

Further, they held a strong dislike and distrust of organized religion in general, and of Christianity in particular – Christianity being the religion whose gross abuses of humanity there were most familiar with.

John Adams description of Christian fundamentalists’ desire to, “"whip and crop, and pillory and roast" people sounds frighteningly similar to Islamic Fundamentalists.

In fact, Christian and Islamic fundamentalists worship the same rape-torture-kill God and both intend to covert the world, or kill all of humanity in the process.

JOHN ADAMS:

•Adams was right when he wrote,” This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!”

•“How has it happened that millions of myths, fables, legends and tales have been blended with Jewish and Christian fables and myths and have made them the most bloody religion that has ever existed? Filled with the sordid and detestable purposes of superstition and fraud?” (Letters to F.A. Van Der Kamp 1809-1816)

THOMAS JEFFERSON:

•“In every country and in every age the priest [any and every clergyman] has been hostile to liberty; he is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”

•“I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies.”

•“His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did.”

•“Their [Presbyterian’s] ambition and tyranny would tolerate no rival if they had power.”

•“It is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist.”

JAMES MADISON:

•Christianity neither is, nor ever was apart of the common law. Feb. 10, 1814

•The establishment of the chaplainship to Cong[res]s is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles: The tenets of the chaplains elected [by the majority] shut the door of worship agst the members whose creeds & consciences forbid a participation in that of the majority.”

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN:

•Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands. They were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle’s Lecture. It happened that they produced on me an effect precisely the reverse of what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appealed to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself. In a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.”

JOHN TYLER:

•“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent -- that of total separation of Church and State.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN:

•“My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvationand the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.” (to Judge JS. Wakefield, after Willie Lincoln's death)

MARY TODD LINCOLN:

•“Mr. Lincoln was not a Christian.”

ULYSSES S. GRANT:

•Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.” (Address to the Army of the Tennessee, Des Moines, Iowa, September 25, 1875)


If the Christian religious-right gains control of America, then only terrorists will control the world. How can deal with Islamic terrorists abroad when we have Christian terrorist traitors at home?

In the early 1950s, Madison's Capital Times editor John Patrick Hunter took to the streets with a petition, (which was actually the Declaration of Independence, along with portions of the Bill of Rights) and tried to get people to sign it. Only one in 112 did. The rest found it too subversive.

The First Amendment does not say that ignorant Christians get to make the rules and run the country.


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When was the last flag-burning in the news?

Have you ever seen a flag burned or know anyone who has seen a flag burned?


You really are not very informed, are you?
I didn't think so.

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Answer 9

Well, don't you know the flag is a *Christian* symbol of a Christian country?!

Answer 10

Because that is stupid. Both of them!

Who cares about radical agendas! I don't!