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“The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant - baptism and holy communion - must be denied citizenship, just as they were in ancient Israel.”
Gary North - Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism (1989)

“I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good... Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called on by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism.”
Randall Terry - The News Sentinel, (Fort Wayne, Indiana), August 16, 1993.

"The Church has through the centuries, understood that ideas are really more dangerous than other weapons. Their use should be restricted.”
Francis J. Lally, American Roman Catholic Monsignor. Interview with Mike Wallace, 1958.


“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.” Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, pt. 1, "The Author's Profession of Faith" (1794).

“It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.” Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Quoted in: J. A. C. Brown, Techniques of Persuasion, ch. 11 (1965)

“We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand.”
James Watt, Secretary of the Interior under Ronald Reagan. Washington Post, May 24, 1981.



-- What is there to trust? They prove with their own words that they cannot be trusted.

2007-03-20 13:07:13 · answer #1 · answered by Audrey Grace 2 · 3 1

Ask the folks at the Salem witch trials....
Actually, this is one reason why the US and every western democracy sticks to a separation of church and state. That way you're arresting someone for breaking a law (impeding on someone else's rights) not for being a bad Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or what have you.
Another is that the spiritual is by definition unknowable (at least in this life) and justice is based on the knowable (this is why science is used so often to prove cases; it's also based on proving the knowable). If evidence is unverifiable, it's worthless.

2007-03-20 13:09:24 · answer #2 · answered by adphllps 5 · 1 1

No. because they will only enact laws that are in agreement with their particular religion (or agains other religions as the case may be) both subtlely and overtly.

2007-03-20 21:41:35 · answer #3 · answered by gotherunereadings 3 · 0 0

hmmm i don't know. Good question. I feel like they would be bias and all religiony, so i say that, no they probably shouldn't be trusted to enact society's laws or create them.

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2007-03-20 13:08:27 · answer #4 · answered by B20Mac 4 · 0 1

Religious people can be trusted, yes. People who mistake their beliefs for law cannot.

2007-03-20 13:06:19 · answer #5 · answered by Kate S 3 · 1 0

It has been done for eons, Bro!
Don't you realize that the foundation of any society's law is the Ten Commandment?

2007-03-20 14:30:41 · answer #6 · answered by autor06hj 2 · 0 1

Since so many of them believe that without their religion they would be evil murderers, I would not trust them. What if they realize that God is not a bigot? Will that mean that they will lose their morals?

2007-03-20 13:03:25 · answer #7 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 1 1

They have done this for over 230 years

2007-03-20 13:01:27 · answer #8 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 1 1

I think the same can be said for anyone, religion or not.

2007-03-20 13:03:05 · answer #9 · answered by Lief Tanner 5 · 0 0

To enforce them, yes. To make them, no.

2007-03-20 13:00:46 · answer #10 · answered by Prof Fruitcake 6 · 1 1

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