I just wonder, with the ability to practice whatever faith you please both in public and in private, what purpose is there to attemp to alter policy in these matters? If I believed a three legged dog that speaks was a god because he pees chinese symbols, and he demanded i buy him a latte, would I have a right to lobby for tax breaks for imported columbian beans based on my supposed rights as a member of a religion? I know it's a horribly silly analogy and may have a hole or two, but really, wtf. No, we will not ever have a national religion, ever, because you know what, the economy would collapse. Based on the fact that we have no single religion claiming more than 32% of the nation's population, we can assume that people would fight and leave or worse, stay and fight, and tada America's first Holy War, we are due for one I think. Europe was so lucky to have one first.
2007-07-05 10:50:02 · 18 answers · asked by azrealsky 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am more refering to a few select congressmen and woman who are attemtping to establish a national religion and to enforce thiology in the classroom. My analogy is of course rhetoric, that's the point. If you really think I need to smoke crack, then you are obviously an idiot, so enjoy that.
2007-07-05 11:36:38 · update #1
They have that right. its called the first amendment. you must have heard about it. it made all the papers.
2007-07-10 09:20:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion and the law are teachers. Without law we will have anarchy. Without religion there would be no moral backup to law. Religion places law in a certain perspective. Goodness is a concept that society needs badly. Yet without religion our western civilization would not have been built. Its nice, some people think, to move religion away. To say that it only contributed trouble and stifled education,etc. But this is not true historicly. The monasteries kept education alive. Religion is a great motivating force in the west as part of our shared culture.
A free world without religion, is a frew world without law. God is the law giver. Without God there is no law. We are dogs and cats fighting each other for whatever we want. Therefore all lose out.
Freedom needs some restraints!
2007-07-12 09:34:19 · answer #2 · answered by hossteacher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, something needs to be done... I'm not saying that people should be forced to study a specific religion... but, come on! How many innocent people who were just trying to help (man is robbed and stabbed, left to bleed to death, after giving someone walking by a bottle of water) or who were in the wrong place at the wrong time (teen bumps into a guy at a 7-11 and the man fatally shoots him, and it's caught on
surveillance video.)
How many people have to be killed, or overdose on drugs... or steal, or...do any number of the immoral things that are out there, whether it is just hurting themselves or other people as well before parents, and people in the community, and political leaders finally come together to do something about it???
I'm not saying that the political leaders are going about things the right way, or that I agree with them... But, come on people... think for yourselves. Don't let someone sway you just because what they're saying right now seems great. Figure out what you believe and stand up for it... no matter what.
2007-07-13 05:35:41 · answer #3 · answered by eePe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having a world-wide religion is one of the things that have been written about over and over. I've read info from several religions about the end times. I've read Revelations more times than I care to count. This seems to be one of the things that most agree on, there will be only one world wide religion before Armageddon. It sure doesn't seem possible today. But, ya never know.... I guess I'll worry about it when it happens.
Blessed Be
2007-07-13 02:26:17 · answer #4 · answered by Linda B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agreeing with Captain America, I would add that you've been sitting in a pot of warm water so long you don't know it's begining to boil...do you like Frogs legs?
I live in a small (8,000) Western town that is having a transvestite event at a bar. These people are sleepwalkers. .
2007-07-05 11:06:33 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas Paine 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the queston is do religous people have the right to join in political debate and social intercourse
the answer is yes i mean if your an american
both athiest and comunist and nazis and kkk have the right to engage the public in a battle of ideas
what this queston amounts to is a exersize in verbal censorship
are we as citizens going to be socialices like the eurpean sheep or are we as in our tradition going to be free thinking and free voting free men
2007-07-05 11:18:04 · answer #6 · answered by badboybilzer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they believe that this is a Christian Nation, and if it's not they believe it should be. If it ever becomes a christian nation, it will no longer be America, land of the FREE.
2007-07-05 10:54:48 · answer #7 · answered by punch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you haven't notice Christianity isn't a democracy and by my opinion America is heading toward the dark age via religion
2007-07-05 10:54:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do really wonder if those living in the USA actually appreciate how despised they are by the rest of the world.
2007-07-05 10:53:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion is heavily influencing the worldly politics.
But it by this you can see the hypocrisy of the churches.
2007-07-05 10:54:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a democracy, and they will have their say. Let us defeat them with reason and the truth, and not resort to name calling and empty rhetoric.
2007-07-05 10:56:05 · answer #11 · answered by Herodotus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋