How would you like to live in a country that chose a national religion that was not your own, and you were forced to attend those churches or not get any of the benefits of citizenship. Would this become intolerable? Would you choose to leave rather than to comply?
2007-11-14 11:57:49 · 16 answers · asked by AuroraDawn 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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Why limit this great question to Christians... when this might be the one and only thing we can all agree upon without an argument.
Freedom is priceless.... it's even more valuable than God.
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2007-11-14 14:26:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ask the Christian Arabs, and you will really understand how it feels.
ex. the month or Ramadan. If anyone is caught eating, drinking, smoking or even chewing gum. The sentence is prison until the end of the month. It doesn't matter what is your religion.
Ever looked at the Iraqi flag, or the Saudi flag. Guess what on it. Religion.
Many of them do leave, but not all of them can.
As bad as some might think the US is, it is a whole lot better than many countries around the world. At least to me it is.
2007-11-14 20:09:30 · answer #2 · answered by Bravado Guru 5 · 12⤊ 0⤋
It would be very difficult---to protect my family I would have to go through the motions until I could find a way for us all to escape. The Bible is quite clear on this---do not bow down to false gods---and this is important stuff. people all over the world are forced to do obedience to gods in which they do not believe---bad stuff.
I am not proud to be an American---I have done little to deserve it---but I am GRATEFUL to be living here and not have to worry about that...
2007-11-14 22:24:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think anyone could be forced to worship what they don't believe. It will be a matter of choice. A true believer is one in the heart and will go to their death before complying to a false god/religion.
2007-11-14 20:08:01 · answer #4 · answered by charmaine f 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would leave if it were possible.
But were it not possible to leave, I would continue to worship God and Jesus and be Christian regardless of any consequences if that wasn't the national "religion" and suffer through any thing that the govt would do.
2007-11-14 20:12:47 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas The Servant 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You just described communist China. Which is why I pray for the heroic bishops who are arrested and killed for their faith because they will not bend to the hatred and control of a government hostile to Christ.
Aren't we glad we live in America, where we can go to any church we want to, at any time, and it is AGAINST the law to prevent this?
Yet, we take it for granted.
2007-11-14 20:07:54 · answer #6 · answered by Danny H 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Religion is not of God.
Joh 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
2007-11-14 20:04:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
as soon as this law was passed i would either 1. Stand up for my religion and not leave the country so I could teach others about the one and only God, Jesus Christ, or 2. I would up and leave the country.
It would really depend on what God told me to do.
2007-11-14 20:02:55 · answer #8 · answered by Jesus_lover 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
That's exaclty why my answers left Europe for America in 1700.
2007-11-14 20:01:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Isn't that what the Puritans tried to do along with killing and torturing every one who did not believe the way they did. The same warm hearted folks who gave us Thanksgiving
2007-11-14 20:02:35 · answer #10 · answered by Marty 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋