Christians, just wondering?

Question

If you lived in a country which had Zeus on the money, a president that every day told you that Zeus will bless you, court houses with Zeus' Commandments on them...etc, etc

To put it shortly: if you had Zeus all over your culture, how would you feel about freedom of religion in that country?

Would you try to get a little less of Zeus all over the country, in order to undo the prior injustice of favorizing Zeus over other gods, in your case your God?

Would you get annoyed if Zeusists kept on screaming how they were persecuted, when all you were doing was undoing prior injustices to your religion?

Answer 1

Looks like Nicholas nailed it...

Note to robertt: "replace zeus with God and you sound like an Athiest trying to remove the cheif cornerstone to America" Wow, how insightful, did you come up with that realization all by yourself?

To Catchingfreak: You realize that the Founding Fathers had nothing to do with the "one nation under God" part of the Pledge, right? That was added in 1954, courtesy of a campaign by the Knights of Columbus.

Answer 2

Freedom of religion had nothing to do with Believing anything you want. It had to do with keeping the government from interfering with the christian faith, like what happened in England. When a country is founded on the bible, including laws etc. it is only natural that God would be center of that country. Just like those who worshiped Zeus and all the other gods of this world, that was their countries focus. If it offends people so much that they cannot stand to here or see things about God (which only promotes a better life for those that believe) then I would recommend moving to another country that believes what they do and not worry about what this Country Stands For. One Nation Under God!

Answer 3

Christianity is a part of this country's history and heritage, going way back. The things you mention weren't thought up yesterday.

Is someone preventing you from believing in what you will or worshiping who you will?

If I were to live in a country that favored Zeus, I would still worship my God and not bellyache about Zeus being everywhere. And I wouldn't see favoring Zeus as an injustice. I'd see it as a part of the culture and history of that country.

If anyone, of any belief, were persecuted for that belief, I would pray to my God for their relief. No one should be persecuted for what they believe. I would also introduce them to my God. Would you see that as persecution?

My God made you in His image, yet you reject Him. My God made a way to save you with a huge sacrifice, yet you ignore Him. What has Zeus done for you?

Answer 4

Deal with it. Nobody is coming to your house and locking you up for not being a believer, or putting you in jail, or trying to convert you. If you don't believe, why does it bother you? Nobody cares about what you do, or what you believe. So stop whining about it. There is NO National religion! This country was designed not to punish a belief, and not punish those who do. And since you seem to be in the minority, I say again....Deal with it!

The money does not say "In Jesus we Trust", so I don't know why you would ask this of Christians. The 10 commandments, which is the basis for modern law, is in the OLD Testament, as well as the Koran. So pointing the finger at Christianity for all of the things you don't like, only shows that you are not only uneducated, but bigoted as well.

Have a nice day.

Answer 5

And what if the Zeusists went around telling you that you were going to go to hell and that the only way to avoid that was to become a Zeusist? What if the Zeusists told you that God ignores the prayers of all but the Zeusists, that the only people he pays attention to are the Zeusists. What if the Zeusists told you that you own religious faith was nothing but a cult?

Answer 6

Personally I don't see Jesus Christ all over the culture. I see a culture that is overrun by paganism. And I see how people have used the name of Christ for evil. As far as those who truly have been persecuted in the name of Jesus, I can assure you that you haven't heard from them. As for injustices done by Christianity, considering that without the justice which has issued from the fear of God Almighty, there would be no justice at all here, the injustices you have mentioned are as much remedied by Christianity as caused by those using the name in vain.

Answer 7

The Bible is 66 books written by 40 authors over a span of about 1500 years and from start to finish it's the story of man screwing up and God trying to restore to man what was lost.

You ever play Telephone with more than three people?
You know how the message keeps getting mixed up and distorted?
No such incident occurs in the Bible.
It's one story from start to finish.

Also, the Bible is approximately 37% prophecy.
That means that over one third of the Bible is God telling us what would happen long before it did so people would believe Him when they saw it.
Like take Israel, for example. God told them He would draw them out of the ends of the Earth and make them a mighty nation that no one would be able to remove. He said this inthe books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah and others.
He also said this when they were in exile and there was no chance of this happening but in 1948 it did and no one has been able to get rid of Israel, although just about every Arab in the middle East wants to.

Now, if people don't want to believe, that's one thing but to say that there's just not enough evidence or that you just don't see what we see is deceptive and dishonest.

Your "Zeus" example fails for a whole lot of reasons but the two I wrote about above are more than sufficient.

Hope this helps.

Answer 8

I'm not American...but the thing is,if I lived in a country that favoured a religion (for example,a Muslim country) I wouldn't go and complain to them about :

*their national holidays being Islamic ones,
*having quotes of Muhammed's in public places
And I wouldn't:

*demand that they take down any Islamic symbols because 'it might be offensive'

Because I'd have the sense to realise that the country was predominantly a Muslim one.As long as I had the freedom to practice my faith,and I wouldn't be discriminated against because of my faith,then it wouldn't really bother me.
As well as that,things like the ten commandments are the basis of most modern law.To take them down from courthouses for fear of offending someone is denying the heritage of the country.

Answer 9

Haha, point taken :). Religion mixed with politics is volatile. Perhaps it's not the Christians who are the problem in the countries you speak of; it's the systems - too many 'rights', and too many outspoken people. If you really want an example of Christians, look to those persecuted in third-world countries, who accept that persecution is a part of what they believe in and continue to quietly believe, in spite of the opposition.

Answer 10

If your saying Christians want this your misunderstanding.
I have never heard or seen a Christian want this to happen to our country. And the fact that you're saying that Christian's are screaming about how their prosecuted?
i've never seen this.
Are you talking about the money saying in God we trust.
The history of our nation??
one nation under God,
this is the doing of our forefathers. This is their beliefs. This is what they wrote. This is how they wanted this nation to be. God in a universal term. Many men back then did not believe in a God. Its the same as it is now in america, our forefathers just had enough sense to let it go. these words do not mean anything personal. It was how our nation was set up.