Would you support an amendment making Christianity the official U.S. religion, and banning other religions?

Question

I would. It would take some of the evil out of this country

Answer 1

No, I would not.

When one forces another person to worship what they believe, who's being glorified, the God or the people doing the compelling? There's no compulsion in religion.

Answer 2

I wouldn't because then it would be stating that we are better than God. Have you ever been around someone that always cut you short of your glory? For example, you work and work and work and then finally when you have felt like you accomplished something, they tell you that your way was wrong and that you could have done it a certain way. Basically making your time and effort feel useless. Well thats how I believe through reading the Bible we act when we state things like, "change these things because of...." God has already planned everything out. In the last Chapter of Malachai which is the last words of the Old testament, God is telling us that there will be a time for judgement. He will come down and bring justice. So why would I even worry about changing people that don't believe in Christianity. I will talk to them about it and let them make the choice. When Jesus is talking to people that want to follow him, he tells them "Pick up your cross and follow me" but immediately after he tells them that they must leave the things behind and continue on they make up exscuses. If our God really wasn't caring and loving, he would not have given them that choice", iin fact he would have demanded them to follow Him.
The point is doing all that we think we can do is not what will be. How dare we limit the powers of God with our own thoughts of judgement.

Answer 3

Good question, I would support an amendment making Christianity the official US religion, but I wouldn't ban the others, they should have the freedom to have their faith. This nation was founded on Christian principles, so we should endorse Christianity.

Answer 4

Do you forget that this country was settled by individuals escaping the type of religious persecution you are mandating.
Evil? What "evil" religions exist in this country. I have visited churches and other places of worship of a number of faiths and have never felt any of them to be evil.
Of course, some religious extremists include gays, lesbians, and anyone who is not a member of their faith as "evil." If that is what you mean, I suggest you actively seek out people of different origins and beliefs and discover that the vast majority of individuals in this country are good, kind people.

Answer 5

You've got to be kidding! The wars that have been waged because of religious preference have been instigated primarily by Christians, and the Constitution itself states that Freedom of Religion is one of our inalienable rights. If you ask me, THAT is where this country went wrong- in abusing that document and betraying the dreams of our Founding Fathers. no matter how naive they were as to the evil in us all.

My religion is Existence itself, I worship only the Universe and Nature- our collective consciousness is the third in the Trinity to me. That is why we are all different: because in our diversity all things possible and all things imaginable can become real.

Answer 6

I would not support banning or supporting any specific religion - that would violate constitutional rights.
If anything I would ban all religious organizations - not the beliefs but the structures and cults that have grown around the beliefs.
Religions have always been used to control people, to impose beliefs without letting individuals find out for themselves what they believe.
So I am in favor of religious freedom - in freedom from religious organizations. Religion should be a personal relationship with God and not imposed by organizations.

Answer 7

This is a reason why so many people are angry with the religious people.

No, I would not support this amendment. It is a violation of human rights to enforce religion on people.

By the way, there is plenty of evil inside christianity. There are christian leaders getting busted for doing all sorts of evil things. Ever hear of the problems the churches are having with child molestation claims?

Answer 8

Brother this country was founded on freedom of religion.
For such an amendment to be even proposed would be a catastrophic event.Which brand of Christendom would you impose on the people? Would you make them all be catholic?
How about Methodist? Lets propose an amendment to make all the people of the US Jehovah's Witnesses. I would go along with that.

Answer 9

No. If we did that, then we would have to decide what churches are Christian and what ones are not. What would we decide about JWs, LDS, SDA, Tony Alamo, etc. While most Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, etc. churches teach essentially the same doctrine, there are a few within these groups who also have some radical teaching. Eventually we would have to choose just one flavor of Christian and the government would be mandating the sermons. Disastrous.

Answer 10

no, because one of the tennants that this country was founded on is freedom of religion, and that means all religions!!

banning other religions would remove evil, because there will always those who do evil just for the sake of doing evil. and forcing others to give up their beliefs could only lead to resentment. it is better to win over non-belivers with love and truth.

Answer 11

I am a Christian. Based upon the Evils of History, I say, "No".

It has been proven to do much more harm than good. Do you think the Bible-believing Christians of the 4th century were very happy when Constantine's Catholic Church leaders lead persecution against them for not joining his church? It was just the beginning of a 1700 year reign of terro against Bible-believers.