YOU have accepted that YOU are a sinner. You view ALL MEN CREATED BY GOD as sinners because that is what your manuscript manifests! Your Bible also conditions entry into Heaven by being SAVED BY A KING! Well my fellow American, THE DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCED manifests No man will be ruled by a KING! Our Bill of Rights provides the provision that we are "Innocent until proven guilty!". Your Bible is corruption to the policies and doctrines that command this GREAT Nation and the FREEDOMS declared in Our Bill of Rights. If one is to accept the Bible-it is protected by these Bills under freedom of religion, but that is where it ends. Separation of Church & State manifests that it ends in your church. Tell the world about your God on your Christian Broadcast Network, I channel I do not prefer to watch-much like the channels I watch that YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WATCH! But you have No right, to tell me what I can and can not watch. Being I am a realist-I am prejudiced by you-HIPOCRIT!
2007-01-31 06:58:52 · 16 answers · asked by YippyYahQQ 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
So the Declaration of Independence is greater than the Holy Bible?
And what's your point? Just these pointless screaming crap?
Reported.
2007-01-31 07:07:49 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Your presupposition is actually the problem here. Christians do not demand the "We the people accept God's monarchy." This country has never been, isn't now, nor will it ever be a theocracy. Our constitution wouldn't allow for it. I guess this solves the problem. No?
Ok, then let me explain further. There are certain laws that have always sort of been, well, there. For instance, stealing has always been regarded to as bad. Well, the crux of the cultural divide between christians and much of the left is thatthe left's typical answer would be "it depends on the situation."
So if one is poor and another is rich and the poor steals from the rich, then it is ok. The problem with this sort of reasoning is that the line really never gets drawn, therefore, what do we have as a foundation for law? Common sense? I'm sure you'd agree that that isn't so common. Then what? Well, our forefathers wrestled with this same question, and decided that as far as standards are set, the Bible is a good foundation since, for the most part, it is considered to be rather concrete in It's stances on several issues.
However, far from all laws in the Bible were adopted to govern our nation (i.e. we can still buy pornography, have premarital sex, and cheat on our spouses if we so choose, free of legal ramifications). However, many of the laws in the Bible just make good sense. But remember that the majority rules, for the most part anyway, and if decency laws are the issue, the majority has always had the right to make such values into law (like prohibition) however unpopular in some circles it seems.
I know it impinges on certain freedoms, but the bill of rights has been ammended numerous times to appease the majority. As far as regarding to God as a King, He IS my King. I wish he were your's too, but that is a personal decision. Christians (at least the thinking Christian) knows that forcing soemone to "become born again" isn't saving them at all, but instead make them go through the motions. One can no more force someone to accept God as their King than force a baby to fall asleep.
Aside from that, there really is nothing else that I can say on the matter.
I hope this at least clarified "the other side's" point of view for you.
2007-01-31 08:26:45 · answer #2 · answered by zach_718 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
For someone who is ranting about what our government is based on, surely you should be more informed about what these documents actually say, right? Obviously, you're not even aware that there is no such inclusion in any document that states that religion be left out of government, only that government cannot limit religious practices. Additionally, the Bible states (repeatedly) that man not judge man, only God will have the right to decide entry to Heaven, thus the many, many forms of Christianity .... Finally, with regard to what you watch and don't watch, I think you are dealing with a moral issues upon which we, as free-thinking Americans, are deciding, not the Christian community. Those of us who are not particularly religious but like to have a standard of morality that is in compliance with the laws of our land are entitled to rule (by majority, remember??) what is acceptable. While certain churches, synagogues, etc. may also support this morality, if you fall in the minority, you lose. That's what it's all about, right? Next election, support the candidate who best reflects your beliefs and morality, but a free land does not mean a land where everyone get to do whatever the heck they want!
2007-01-31 07:12:52 · answer #3 · answered by Cherokee Lady 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Get a grip on yourself, of course the christians are right and everyone else is wrong, just ask them!
The United States is just a chunk of land with artificial lines drawn on balls until the Messiah comes to end all that BS.
The quicker we can trick him into coming the better off we will be and it would be a shame if he did notcome while the ministers of faith are all still alive and have to put off his coming until a later date.
Actually many think the United States was only allowed to become an economic and military power so that we could become a great country to supply Jerusalem with guns and money.
The idiots who think that the government is not today being run by a mainly born again philosophy have forgotten that 20 years ago the very same leaders who once wre telling them that the government was evil and now have acess to every department within it are now using it to further thier cause of goodness.
Christians have the right to tell you to do whatever they want to tell you to do!
There can only be one form of government and that is the one that will be set up in Jerusalem not Washington DC. and that then the Christians will rule it and not the Jewish Faith who happen to live there.
That they cannot look at the hows and whys and who's who of the writings of their book but just read it as it is written today and beleive as they are told to believe is not a sign of weakness, it is their strength.
No matter the form of government it will be corrupt as was every other christian grouping in history, as was any Jewish in history, as was any Islamic or all the kindred cults; yet they will persist until they belive they have established the groundwork of his coming.
A country that cannot be run by their book unless it is as full of hypocracy as its followers and is picked and chosen to explain all the aberations within their ranks.
And beleive me there are many such to look at.
Get a grip on yourslef and just remember no matter who they chose as godhead to rule until the end times you will still be able to believe as you want in the privacy of home and heart.
They like to make money and even if today they take just a little from your taxes what is a tithe when it will make so many of them feel good about themselves?
2007-01-31 07:43:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
who're we to assert how God could or wouldn't have made us? If we had the brainpower and intelligence which could be mandatory to absolutely comprehend all that God is does not that make us additionally gods? How might that benefit us provided that devil had a miles better be conscious of-how of God than we've and yet look the place that have been given him! God, together with his foreknowledge and comprehension of the super image, gave us sufficient intelligence to comprehend that he exists and to be conscious of the version between authentic and incorrect and what we could do to be saved to boot as each little thing we could be conscious of to earnings from this short-term actual existence right here in the textile international. He additionally left only sufficient info so as that any one who surely sought him might locate sufficient grounds to have real looking faith in him. As for the challenge of slavery, this sort of “slavery” approved of in the Bible substitute into lots greater of an company/worker relationship than an proprietor/slave challenge and a guy or woman generally keen entered into such an association or used it as a thank you to repay a debt they owed. The Bible limited the grasp’s means over the slave. Ex. 21:20). The slave substitute right into a member of the grasp’s kin (Lev. 22:11) The slave substitute into required to relax on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10; Deut. 5:14) The slave substitute into required and able to take part in non secular observances (Gen. 17:13; Exodus 12:40 4; Lev. 22:11). The Bible prohibited extradition of slaves and granted them asylum (Deut. 23:sixteen-17). The servitude of a Hebrew debt-slave substitute into constrained to 6 years (Ex. 21:2; Deut. 15:12). while a slave substitute into freed, he substitute into to get carry of presents that enabled him to stay to tell the story economically (Deut. 15:14) some issues approved in the previous testomony did not inevitably characterize the appropriate. through hardness of historic Israel’s heart, God tolerated (and controlled) some issues below the previous regulation that were long status customs which He did not advise. This substitute right into a short-term situation till civilisation could progression to the quantity they could learn a greater robust way. meanwhile, by regulating those issues and making them greater humane, their ability to do harm substitute into saved to an absolute minimum.
2016-10-16 09:09:31 · answer #5 · answered by hudrick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one is demanding you do anything. Are Christians holding a gun to your head, fella? I don't think so. You have the free will to worship, and believe as you feel like it. That's how America came about. No one is forcing you to watch a Christian channel either. Good grief why don't you people wake up, and smell the fricken coffee. It's radical Islam that wants us dead for not praising Allah! If you ask me, you're having a spiritual battle about things, and maybe you even have a guilty conscience, or you wouldn't be ranting, and raving about Christianity. Get a grip.
2007-01-31 07:10:54 · answer #6 · answered by mojojo66 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
interesting. If you could capsule the christian belief in a single phrase it would probably be "all men are created equal". And if you care to research when you're not ranting, you would find that our founders were men of deep religious conviction. as for the separation of church and state, that's not actually written in our documents of freedom (I believe it was in a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote) but it is a good idea not to have the pope be president. Atheism is not a religion but they seem to be more protected than any church.
2007-01-31 07:16:00 · answer #7 · answered by Alan S 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
"Innocent until proven guilty!" applies to the legal system. You will not be sentenced to prison until you are proven guilty. Everyone is guilty of sins, its just the way it is. No one is perfect.
Use some common sense. The Bible was written thousands of years ago. "King" can be interpreted to modern terms to mean "leader".
Once again, this is not the right section for this question.
2007-01-31 07:24:12 · answer #8 · answered by Curt 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Um, where is the question? Many Americans are not Christians, and I am not even religious. 100% atheist here
2007-01-31 07:26:12 · answer #9 · answered by John B 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A prime candidate for Anger Management school.
I'll pray for you brother.
2007-01-31 07:20:22 · answer #10 · answered by Matt 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋