I am sick too death of right wing Christian types who feel that they MUST ram their own personal beliefs down the rest of our collective throats and influencing politics. It has become very prevelent in the US since the 1980's and is now creeping into Canadian politics and I for one and getting very angry..!!
2006-12-31 15:58:30 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-12-31 16:00:55 · answer #1 · answered by The atheist revolutionary 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not agree. I think you are stupid and ignorant. It is always funny how people think every one has a right but the other people. Left wing, right wing or just out there all people have a right to speak there minds in politics of you will have no one in politics execpt stupid and ignorant people. Could it be that you do not like moral laws. The govenment in America is based on personnal rights that are given to every American. The Government is precluded from interfering with the peoples rights in the self governing of our nation. In Canade the government is nuts and the people are all the more the same. But maybe some one will really bring about change for the better. That will not be you.
2007-01-01 00:28:24 · answer #2 · answered by Thomas A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the Christians are doing ENOUGH with the government coercing. I believe that it is illegal to talk about the Bible in school, but my son and daughter can learn about how to have sex (such as anal and fisting) in a public school. I see government funded art work that shows a crucifix in a jar of urine or a statuette of the Virgin Mary covered in feces, without anyone condemning it. Students in public school have been banned from praying and taking a Bible with them, and have even had their copy of the Ten Commandments taken away from them as it is considered hate speech.
To my knowledge, there is no law that prevents the teaching of Evolution (which, in textbooks, is said that happens but the exact mechanisms have yet to be explained). The protests outside of abortion clinics are just protests, and do not have government backing to close any of them down.
Why don't you try protesting the religion of Islam? I have a better idea: go to Iraq where people are using the excuse of their religion to execute others in cold blood. I was there for a year defending my ideals (not yours). I think it's safe to say that I don't just complain; I actually put my words into action. Maybe you should do some soul-searching to see if your ideals are worth fighting and possibly dying for.
2007-01-01 00:20:01 · answer #3 · answered by -M- 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do believe that. I was actually thinking about that during church this morning. I don't think that our President should have the right of declaring a national day of prayer. I think that religion and state should be two very separate things - it has a better order and flow. Happy New Year.
2007-01-01 00:04:42 · answer #4 · answered by The Pope 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, soon Muslims will be cramming themselves down your throat and you will be yearning for Christians. The United States was built on Christian values. Not sure about Canada. I heard that Canada was getting sick of liberals migrating across the border. Live your life as you feel. Christians have freedom of speech as anyone else.
2007-01-01 00:04:13 · answer #5 · answered by Baby Bloo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes! Church and State must be separate at all costs. We all have a responsibility to create a harmonious and just society. The Republican Party needs to stop buying Christian votes by telling them vote Republican or you're not Christian!
The Anglo-Catholic Socialist
"How can you claim to worship Christ in the tabernacle when you do not pity him in the slum?"
2007-01-01 00:03:33 · answer #6 · answered by OrthoAng 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pushing ones religion down others throat is definitely not nice, especially when we have so many different religions. But i do believe we as a society should be practical and allow or ban things depending on how they effect our society.
2007-01-01 00:12:34 · answer #7 · answered by A fan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES YES YES YES YES
Jesus, Mohammad, Moses, God, etc should not effect legal issues, there are many people like myself who dont believe in anything, who dont want what the bible says effecting what we can/cant do.
The whole abortion, gay rights..er..any civil rights, war, etc are putrid with religious mythology poisoning the argument
It's a free country, with religious freedom, the religious right is trying to push what they believe down our throats..
2007-01-01 00:05:38 · answer #8 · answered by Ethernaut 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now it might be easier to understand why Jehovah's Witnesses do not get involved with Politics.
Jesus didn't get involved even when they were all wanting him to be king:
Hence when the men saw the signs he performed, they began to say: “This is for a certainty the prophet that was to come into the world.” Therefore Jesus, knowing they were about to come and seize him to make him king, withdrew again into the mountain all alone. -John 6:14-15
Jesus was offered all the Kingdoms of the world by Satan and did not get invoved there either. If Satan didn't own these things along with the political part of these "kingdoms" then it wouldn't have been a real temptation would it??
"Again the Devil took him along to an unusually high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, and he said to him: “All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me.” Then Jesus said to him: “Go away, Satan! For it is written, ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.’” Then the Devil left him,.... " -Matthew 4:8-11
Now you might be starting to understand why Jesus also said the following about not being part of the 'world':
“These things I command YOU, that YOU love one another. If the world hates YOU, YOU know that it has hated me before it hated YOU. If YOU were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because YOU are no part of the world, but I have chosen YOU out of the world, on this account the world hates YOU. Bear in mind the word I said to YOU, A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute YOU also; if they have observed my word, they will observe YOURS also. But they will do all these things against YOU on account of my name, because they do not know him that sent me." - John 15:17-21
“I request you, not to take them out of the world, but to watch over them because of the wicked one. They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. Sanctify them by means of the truth; your word is truth. Just as you sent me forth into the world, I also sent them forth into the world. And I am sanctifying myself in their behalf, that they also may be sanctified by means of truth."
-John 17:15-19
2007-01-01 00:11:24 · answer #9 · answered by Livin In Myrtle Beach SC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe Christians have as much right as anyone to influence politics.
2007-01-01 00:07:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I absolutely agree. People forget than many people came to this country to avoid religeous persecution and this is the primary premis for separation of church and state.
2007-01-01 00:01:31 · answer #11 · answered by donewiththismess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋