They seem to think that democrats have removed God from their lives. Shouldn't you be a bit stronger in your faith? I mean the jews held on to theirs throoughout the nazi regime...but you guys can't seem to hold on to it if it isn't posted on public property?
2007-03-21 09:51:23 · 18 answers · asked by hichefheidi 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
can't answer the question, eh?
2007-03-21 09:55:49 · update #1
I hear ya Dog Love, and I agree...but that doesn't mean that Xmas is ruined, now does it?
2007-03-21 09:57:02 · update #2
I think we see the problem through different prisms, Heidi. Am I correct in assuming you see people of faith as "weak in their faith" because they're fighting back?
If so, you should understand better than most what it means to struggle with those who have a different vision of constitutional law than one's own.
Most people of faith believe that the First Amendment means what it says: no establishment. We would not be in favor of a designated national church, either. Our disagreement lies in that you apparently feel that no public institution should ever be tainted by anything remotely touching upon the religious. We believe there is wide latitude for government and religion to coexist, and that things like a cross in a park do not in any way violate the Constitution.
2007-03-21 10:00:08 · answer #1 · answered by Rick N 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I only want what we all agreed to in the Constitution, whatever it is. I would like to think my faith would be as strong as those of the Jews in concentration camps, but that's not a reason to not protect the right to free exercise.
If a different religion becomes the majority, the same rule applies. Although volumes have been written on the links, and compatibility, between certain religious/spiritual/cultural institutions and different political philosophies. Some would say that our form of government grew out of Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian philosophical "soil," and that the dissipation of this culture would mean the withering of our form of government as well.
As for my faith, if it were not for my family, I might be hoping to move on to the next life right now. I like earthly pleasures, and I fear pain. But we're supposed to be ready - it's not really under our control.
Would Hell be an eternal chatboard with all our troll friends? We all better be good, so we don't find out! :)
2007-03-21 17:26:00 · answer #2 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You are trying to make your opinion a fact - you simply can not do this, you have your right to your own opinion but please try not to make a statement like it is a fact. I am a conservative and my faith in God is extremely strong. Your question does not have an answer because it is simply not true; you or anyone else can not remove God from my life. However by removing God from schools you are infringing on my religious rights. After all this country was founded on religious freedom.
2007-03-21 17:09:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
It doesn't weaken my faith it actually strengthens it, when Christianity is attacked. It affirms what the bible warns us of. It's the same feeling you would have if someone took away your freedom to, let's say,,,post questions on here, or turn the volume up on your radio as loud as you like , or prohibit you from wearing certain attire to school. You would feel like someone was taking away your freedoms or rights.
2007-03-21 17:06:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
LMAO! Heidi, your "concern" is touching.
I bet you have no problem with the fact that, thanks to the ACLU, kids in NY schools *can* display the Muslim Crescent or the Jewish Menorah, but NOT a Nativity scene.
Hypocrisy, thy name is liberal.....
And, for the record, I'm not a hard-core Christian. I have my own set of beliefs which don't really fit in with mainstream Christian views. But - that's okay - I'm entitled.
2007-03-21 17:03:50 · answer #5 · answered by Jadis 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Youre kidding, right? 86% of Americans believe in God. 14% do not. Liberals would rather pacify the minority than do whats right for the most people. And that, my friend, is the most ridiculous item of the day. You make me laugh.
2007-03-21 16:57:16 · answer #6 · answered by packerswes4 5 · 5⤊ 3⤋
everyone has the right to believe in a god or not. just because it doesn't conform with your view is neither here nor there, isn't that what Muslims want, to press their view onto the world and have us all praying to Allah, you obviously believe in a god. i personally don't. i respect your right to and your views why don't you respect mine
yes lets all fight for freedom of speech and expression. just
so long as it is the same view as yours of course.
sorry articch your not entitled to any rights under these religious nuts, kind of like in the islamic world really isnt it.
2007-03-21 16:57:18 · answer #7 · answered by bruce m 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
The evangelicals want a right they don't have - to force their narrow minded views on the rest of us by proselytizing in the form of laws. That was not the intent of the founders no matter how they twist and squirm around the truth.
2007-03-21 16:57:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
Its not that we fear losing our personal faith, but we fear this country's Judeo-Christian foundation being torn apart - and you know what happens when the foundation is gone, everything else falls. Will we become the next Roman Empire - the perversion of society was a primary cause of their fall...
2007-03-21 16:56:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
I honestly believe conservatives are on a mission to drive as many people away from God and Christianity as they possibly can. Bush is doing a good job of that just by himself.
2007-03-21 16:54:36 · answer #10 · answered by brian2412 7 · 3⤊ 5⤋