Is individual liberty threatened by growth of both Christian and Islamic political power?

Question

In USA no politician is likely to be elected without referring to God, or Christian values, whether a believer or not. Similarly In Australia and elsewhere debate on euthenasia, abortion, etc is stifled by concern for religious vote. In Australia, the Federal Government is now paying a Roman Catholic agency to counsel women on abortion, and Christian ministers to act as youth counsellors in schools - by-passing trained non-sectarian counsellors. Despite concern over galloping population growth, both USA and Australia stifle promotion of family planning, especially in the Third World. NGOs lose funding over that! Elsewhere the Islamic religious restrictions on personal life can be even more draconian, and could grow worse under Sharia law, sought by fundamentalists and difficult for "moderates" to resist, as that makes them apostates in fundamentalists' eyes, which warrants death. Is the West also on a "slippery slope" undoing the Enlightenment and its sequels?

Answer 1

No matter what they call themselves, organized religion has become a scourge upon humanity. It creates self righteousness and division and has caused a stagnation towards true spiritual evolution, at both the individual and collective levels.

Answer 2

Indeed the modern world has prompted many to pull their religions as comforters over their heads and go back to sleep. Fundamentalism is sweeping the globe, appealing to the notion that we can go back in time to when life was true and simple. Whether Islamic or Christian, fundamentalism is attempting to deny science, knowledge, critical thinking, and even observations taken from the world around us, saying that what they see spoken in their "Bibles" is more real than any evidence to the contrary. If they have their way we will not only undo the Enlightenment, we will rapidly head back into the Dark Ages where the Nobility will rule the serfs, and anyone who promotes knowledge and wisdom is subject to being burned at the stake, or perhaps have their tongue cut out. Fear is our most violent emotion, and the powerful have played on it very successfully, where even our President pretends to be a fundamentalist to garner votes, yet laughs at them behind their backs. Individual liberty is at stake around those who insist that their beliefs are the will of God, and anyone who disagrees is a heretic and a threat. We even have fundamentalists in the US who send their children to camps where they are encouraged to be soldiers for Christ and the one true faith. They claim to be 40 million strong in the US. We shall see where this goes.

Answer 3

This is a good question that, unfortunately, could require a 500-word essay. I don't think individual political or social liberty is threatened by religious ideals. I think they are accentuated by them. Christianity & Islam, IN THEIR PROPER FORM, give believers a sense of comfort and stability and peace that should transcend politics, and even their lots in life. There is an inner-freedom that isn't of this world. It's up to the individual to make a judgment on religion and religious prinicples when it comes to voting in America or anywhere else. That's what political and religious freedoms are all about. There will always be poor, death, suffering, war, pain and anguish. There will always be inequities, man's inhumanity to man, one group or state will always try to dominate another. That will not change. That's why most true Christian and Islamic believers have a sense of freedom and purpose beyond this world. I don't see a threat because of religion.

Answer 4

the 1st modification is stimulated via God to guard us Christians too. to guard individuals from evil people who weasel their way in a efficient place of rule this is a marriage of religion/politics/non secular regulation. Christians purely choose to repair our united states of america to its foundational records and Judeo+Christian values. Christians do no longer choose a marriage between a Christian faith and the state/politics/regulations. because of the fact whilst this takes place, evil human beings get in those intense places because of the fact of each and every of the money & potential they get. It takes place each time. merely seem at Islam this is a marriage of religion, politics & sharia regulation. Evil human beings get in intense places of authority and that they rule the roost. they are Islamic Supremacists. Christians who're stored via Grace, Jesus Christ is our Lord & Savior, no longer our Ministers. And authentic Christian Ministers love God better than satisfaction, funds & potential. Christians choose freedom of religion and freedom to have one God, many gods or no gods... additionally to have the liberty to be energetic of their own Christian denomination without threat of life... whilst evil human beings get right into a non secular Christian denomination and then had satisfaction, funds & potential politically and can effect regulation, then the individuals go through lots. people who go through the main are the authentic Christians. they are persecuted and many are martyred.

Answer 5

One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is "completely heterosexual." Haggard also said his sexual contact with men was limited to the former male prostitute who came forward with sexual allegations, the Rev. Tim Ralph of Larkspur told The Denver Post for a story in Tuesday's edition. "He is completely heterosexual," Ralph said. "That is something he discovered. It was the acting-out situations where things took place. It wasn't a constant thing." Ralph said the board spoke with people close to Haggard while investigating his claim that his only extramarital sexual contact happened with Mike Jones. The board found no evidence to the contrary. (Watch one woman tell her story of conversion from homosexuality ) "If we're going to be proved wrong, somebody else is going to come forward, and that usually happens really quickly," he said. "We're into this thing over 90 days and it hasn't happened."

Answer 6

The communists campaigned on an anti-god, anti-christian platform. Maybe you can take a lesson from them.

Answer 7

It si threatened a lot more by the hordes from asia and africa breeding like rats

Answer 8

it is not the first time we had to move to preserve our religious believes, remember that's how we first got to america.

Answer 9

Someday religion will disappear, and the world will be a far happier and more peaceful place.