Will the current decline of traditional Christian values result in military rule in the US in your lifetime?

Question

If not, how can democracy, in a society without a unifying force such as the common worship of God, survive?

Answer 1

I wouldn't be surprised at all if this happened! We getting closer and closer to this state all the time.

Answer 2

In American society they have the common worship of $$$$ to pull them all together. I don't believe there is a decline of traditional Christian values, I think it is disinformation, and the majority of people in America are still Christian.

The vast number of legal immigrants that have impacted U.S. population are of Latino decent, and primarily Christian. Even though population demographics show a marked increase in the Asian immigration to the United States as well, the majority of the U.S. will remain Christian because the majority of immigrants to the U.S. will be Christian. Through in 6 to 10 million illegals, primarily of Latino decent, and it's a lock. Racial majority has already changed to reflect Whites as a minority, and Latinos as the majority in the U.S. but the over all Christian majority remains.

Military rule is almost an impossibility, without an invasion or an economic collapse,

Answer 3

There never has been a common worship in the US. Nor has the US ever been a Christian country. It's not now, never has been and absolutely never OUGHT to be a theocracy. To claim otherwise about US history is to be rewriting the whole of US history.

Did you forget that the Pilgrims came to the new world in order to worship in the manner that they chose? Of that wave upon wave upon wage of immigrants did the same? Did you forget that the founding fathers intentionally separated church and state specifically to avoid any possibility of a theocracy.

Or are you simply blind to the dangers and horrors, particularly to others, of a theocracy? What, you don't think that that's the truth? Think Shiite vs Sunni vs Kurd (who are Sunni, BTW). Think Iran. Now, think again about theocracies.

That's aside from the fact that what you want is the civilian equivalent of military rule, rule by theocracy, ruled according to the man-written "rules" of a myth.

The real question here is this one - why do YOU want to force everyone else to believe as you believe? What gives YOU the right to do so? Why must YOURS be the only standards by which everyone must live? Why, just because YOU'VE chosen to live by a creed forced upon YOU (as a parent's creeds are forced upon their children) instead of by the creeds of YOUR own choices? Why can YOU not acknowledge that living by their own creeds is perfectly normal for adults who accept the concept of personal responsibility and accept that that concept applies to each and every one of us?

Some people WANT to be able to make their choices. In fact, MOST people want to be able to make their own choices. That's why so very, very many have left countries in which this is not or has not been allowed, and emigrated to countries in which they are free to act like the adults that they are. And YOU want to take that away from them.

WHY?

How would such a country survive? Very, very nicely, thank you. Far better, in fact, than any such country that you propose. And for one single, solitary purpose. They will be UNITED by their wish for freedom of thought, expression, assembly, religion, etc., as is indicated in Article II of the US constitution and in the first through 6th amendments of the US constitution (they are a part of the US Bill of Rights), as well as the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th amendments to the US constitution. A constitution, BTW, totally without any indication of the necessity of belief in myths.

How dare you even suggest such a thing.

Answer 4

You are the problem.
Read the costitution, research discussions and debates the founding fathers had about this subject. Turn off Fox News, Rush, and O'Reilly. They have an agenda obviously.This is not a christian country nor was it meant to be one. It is a secular democracy. Maybe you were thinking off theocracy which if you had it your way is what this coutry would be under. A good example of a theocracy would be Saudi Arabia. Please put down your 2,000 year old book of mythology and read a book with some facts in it.

Answer 5

There has never been a "common worship of G-d" even in the U.S. That is a myth! The decline in morality might be more accurate. The lack of caring for fellow mankind.

To point you in another direction, think of China. There is no "common worship of G-d" and yet look at the age of their empire.

The only thing that will become demished by the lack of Christian values is the Christian church.

Answer 6

Well since 2/3 of the US military is Evangelical or Chritian Fundementalists I don't think you or the US will ever have anything to worry about. The entire US military is all about Christian values.

Answer 7

Your a perfect example of how the current decline in education will kill democracy, the god-squad surrending Bush has been doing a remarkable job of killing it too! GET REAL

Answer 8

Oh for gods sakes shut up and read the constitution.