This is the way I feel: I feel that I person should be free to worship God as they wish in their home and church. I think that Evolution and Creation theories should be "elective" classes. I don't believe that one should "Force" any child or teenager to take these clases. It should be optional as to whether or not they take them. I personally don't care if they do away with Santa Claus, Easter Bunny and Christmas trees. THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS CHRIST! It seems to me that Jesus was not the type to "force" people to believe. He wanted people to believe in him on their own free will. And that has not changed! People should always have the freedom of religion.
2007-07-15 15:06:44 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The countries with no seperation of church and state are also the countries who slammed airplanes into the world trade center.
Osama Bin Lauden the Terrorist and the American version of the relgious right agree on everything/ exept of course what God they want to force down everyone elses
throughts.
There is no differance between the foriegn terrorists who seek to destroy the constitution and The Bill of rights and the American terrorists who seek to do the same thing as them but from right here at home.
If you want to see a example whatch the 700 club.
2007-07-15 15:18:45 · answer #1 · answered by Rich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you to a point. Christ never "forced" His beliefs on others. This being said, the word "forced" is being greatly misused in today's society. Many people believe that the sheer mention of Jesus or the Bible or God or faith or morality or anything else along these lines means that someone is "forcing" their religion onto the person. Heck, the ACLU even considers a moment of silence as "forcing " religion on someone.
The freedom of religion means that no religion can be made as THE ONLY authorized religion. People cannot be discriminated against based solely on their faith. This is what freedom of religion means. It does not mean that there can be no acknowledgment of any faith system in the public square.
As for "separation of Church and state", that concept is not found in the Constitution. It is also not a concept which was to imply that all religious references were to be removed from the public square. It was a concept initially used by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to emphasize the necessity for freedom of religion. It was the distortion of a liberal Supreme Court that has caused this disaster.
2007-07-15 15:34:31 · answer #2 · answered by Wookie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I basically agree with you, except that Evolution does belong in contemporary science class, and should not be elective. There is nothing wrong with intelligent design as long as it isn't taught in science class. Perhaps this could be in an elective religion class.
I think for the sake of BOTH religion and our government we must stregthen the seperation of church and state. I am suprised that the religious right doesn't realize that their meddling into politics is bad for their religious beliefs and also for our government.
I don't understand why those who are seeking God, and seeking to spread the word of God and Jesus realize that what they have is already so much larger and important that our political systems. By meddling into politics they are going to end up weakening what is potentially very powerful.
2007-07-15 15:18:12 · answer #3 · answered by craige09 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is solid science. Creationism is not a theory. Keep your kids out of school and delight in their ignorance if you wish, but allow others the benefit of a good education. Do not harm others because you want to preserve an archaic discredited doctrine.
2007-07-15 15:13:11 · answer #4 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first amendment to the constitution allows for the freedom of religion in this country, but more than that it does not allow the government to establish a state religion. personally i dont care if people want to worship grass, just dont try to force you beliefs on others. answer questions about your religion, fine, try to make people come over to your view, nope. i will not force anyone to believe in christ.
2007-07-15 15:21:22 · answer #5 · answered by richard b 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why should evolution be elective? Evolution is a fact, and evolutionary fact and theory are the foundation and unifying force in biology. Evolution is the cornerstone of the enormous branch of knowledge and inquiry we call biology. Knowledge of evolution is completely indispensable to our understanding of ourselves and our world. It isn't possible to have a decent basic education without knowing anything about evolution.
2007-07-15 15:15:07 · answer #6 · answered by Handsome Chuck 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel that anyone should be able to believe what they want in their own way, but in no way shape or form do I believe that religion should be involved in government or public schools.
2007-07-15 15:16:13 · answer #7 · answered by timothy_bledsoe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just hope my physician never attended your school. Or anyone working on any medications against diseases. They never need anything to do with creation science to be good at their job, but they've got to be aware of the principles of evolution to be successful.
2007-07-15 15:11:29 · answer #8 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with everything you said.
I also think the state needs to stay out of my church. In fact that's what this statement was all about any way. Keep the Gov. out of my church!
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2007-07-15 15:11:15 · answer #9 · answered by Jeanmarie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no way to force someone to believe something.
Religion needs to stay out of government, schools and laws. Other than that, believe anything you like.
But please don't equate scientific theory with religion. There is no comparison.
2007-07-15 15:12:01 · answer #10 · answered by t_rex_is_mad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋