Why are so many libs intent on trying to destroy the meaning and presence of God in the US?

Question

Do they feel threatened?

Blue Ridge - note the use of the word "trying". Nice try but no cigar.

Answer 1

Yes they feel threatened. The God of the Bible abhors homosexuality and many other things that liberals love. They want to take God out of the public arena so that they can do whatever they want without feeling guilty about it.

That is why it is so hard for me to believe that any EXTREME left liberal can be a Christian.

Answer 2

I have no idea what you are talking about. God is God regardless of your so called religion. I don't think it is the "liberals" that are feeling threaten. The Pope just declared not too long ago that if a person wasn't Catholic then they weren't Christian. So when you are pointing a finger at those trying to change "God" look to your own. There in lies the hypocrisy of religion. For a long time they have been trying to change God to suit their own purposes and control the masses.

Answer 3

I'm not, and I don't feel theatened. And last I checked, you can't spit in the USA and not hit a church of some kind.
Also, if you mean teaching those crazy "science" and "biology" in public schools instead of the undisputable proof of a 2000 yr old book written by a bunch of political and religious hacks, then I AM trying to "destroy the meaning and presence of God in the US" Fer crying out loud, read a different book.

Answer 4

Nobody's trying to "destroy" anything, John K.

What gets me is that fundies want to have it "both ways." In other words, they CLAIM to be the majority when it comes to religious and spiritual matters, yet they also cry that they're persecuted. How can that be?

I think you'd have to agree that MOST people in the USA believe in God...just not YOUR particular version.

I was raised Lutheran, but for many years, my spirituality would best be described as Deist.

I believe in a God, I acknowledge his/her presence every day, but I do not subscribe to the notion that I have the license to get up in peoples' faces and personal space, ranting about how they need to get a "personal relationship" with Jesus, or they'll burn in Hell.

You want to pray? Pray. There's nothing that says you have to make a big public spectacle of it and/or have others join in to validate it.

The creator is omnicient; he/she knows your thoughts. Even a mute person can pray.

Answer 5

I think that is what the liberals were working on while Larry Craig was in the head trying to get head. Or when Bush was busy wiretapping innocent americans and allowing dangerous Mexican trucks to travel freely on our highways.

Wake up. The Republicans are no more interested in your radical religious causes than Democrats. They just pander to you to get your votes.

As for the liberal comment, I don't believe that anyone wants to get rid of religion in our society. There is a constant struggle to determine what is proper in the government sphere when it comes to religion and the pendulum swings both ways. Perhaps if the government were not so involved in our lives religion and government would be a non-issue. We would all be free to pursue our own religions beliefs or non-beliefs.

PS There are many theocracies in the world if you would like to live in one. Most of them are in the middle east and are muslim though. How's that working for them?

Answer 6

) "Individualism, united with altruism, has become the basis of our western civilization. It is the central doctrine of Christianity ('love your neighbor,' say the Scriptures, not 'love your tribe'); and it is the core of all ethical doctrines which have grown from our civilization and stimulated it." Popper, p. 102. "If, as Harold Bloom has lately argued, Shakespeare 'invented the human,' it can be said-with equal hyperbole-that Christianity 'discovered' the individual. In the ancient world, individuals were recognized as members of tribes or nations or families, and conducted themselves accordingly...the Gospels are replete with scenes in which Jesus works one on one, healing this woman's sickness, forgiving that man's sins and calling each to personal conversion. He invites Jews and Gentiles alike to enter God's kingdom. 'Christianity discovers individuality in the sense that it stresses personal conversion,' says Bernard McGinn, professor of historical theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. 'This is a crucial contribution to Western Civilization because it releases the individual from the absolute constraints of family and society." Newsweek, March 29, 1999, p. 56.

Established in 1920 by Roger Baldwin (who candidly stated that "Communism [was] the goal" toward which his efforts were directed)...

Answer 7

Libs as well as moderates don't want a Taliban style government that many fundamentalist Christians seem to want.

The Taliban is an extremely conservative group who governs through the teachings of the Koran.

The extreme fundamentalists in Christianity want to govern through the teachings of the Bible and if you read it, it's a very sexist and racist book that contradicts itself.

Answer 8

there are many other religions in the world, and some liberals and moderates (and yes, even conservatives) don't want to feel like they are pressuring these other people by making God as being the only holy power allowed to be worshipped in public.

It's called respecting other cultures and religions.

I have no problem with prayer in public schools, as long as those of different religions are alowed to pray in their own way. And as long as those who don't believe in religion are left alone from ridicule and hatespeech.

Answer 9

No we dont feel threatened, but you obviously do. You are always free to believe any way you want, just dont force your beliefs on me.

Its not deeply religious people that scare me. Not at all. Its the people that confuse being religous with a feeling of moral superiority. People that know they are right and therefore they have no doubts that those that dont hold their opinions are wrong. The unbelievable arrogance of someone that says that because I dont follow the particular tenets of their religion it automatically follows that I am against God. At best your point of view is irritating. At worst, your extremeism causes misery, death and hatred.

Answer 10

Not to destroy, but the understanding of living in a multi-religion America which causes sacrifice. I am sure God does not want us to throw stones.

Answer 11

Why do you insist on trying to create "libs" in an image and likeness of your own making???? I am a Liberal, and I believe in God! I'm a Christian, and I believe that it is in our best interests to act as much like Jesus as we are able!

Why are so many cons trying to shove their version of religion down everyone's throats??