Does the single greatest threat to American democracy meet each Sunday in places called churches?

Answer 1

No ...........we are our own greatest threat to Democracy. Unfortunately we have allowed religion and politics to be integrated,, abandoning separation from church and state. Our founding fathers knew this when they wrote it in the Constitution. What you then have is a country that is bickering back and forth about Democrats vs Republicans , much like we are currently experiencing.

Answer 2

Benjamin Franklin pronounced the excellent thank you to maintain a democracy to to have a healthy and properly fed inhabitants. so what i say is the excellent possibility to American government and Christianity is the ever growing to be wellbeing disaster and the growing to be fee of meals.

Answer 3

no not at all, although i see your point. the truth is the failings and corruption of lobbyists and certain conservetive politicians will have a fracturing effect on the way the so called religous right vote. no longer will they vote in one huge block for the cons. in general though they are still mostly concerned with social issues. you know, abortion, gay marriage, and these kind of silly issues.

however, while you may see the bible thumping right as a bunch of fools being lead by the nose, theyre not; and they know when they have been had. over time their disilusionment will show itself, maybe by not voting, or perhaps in a 3rd party vote.

god bless em though! i aprreciate all that take the time to express their opinions at the ballot box!

Answer 4

People meeting voluntarily to exercise their first amendment rights is a threat to democracy? Of coarse not.

Answer 5

Actually, the greatest support for freedom and liberty and rights occurs in churches each Sunday.

It wasn't the atheists who conceived of the concepts of human rights.

And if you look at the previous century, it was groups opposed to religion that were the greatest threat to others.

Nazis murdered well over 15 million people in concentration camps and prisoner work camps - Nazis were very much against religion.

Stalin murdered over 20 million people (some say over 40 million), and the soviets were very much anti-religion.

Mao murdered over 25 million (some say over 50 million) and the Maoists were virulently anti-religion.

The Imperial Japanese were non-religious, and murdered many innocent people in China, Philippines and Korea.

Pol Pot was a marxist and murdered some 2 million Cambodians, about 1/3 of its total population.

These were not religious people who did this, not Christians.

Maybe you should consider the depradations of the irreligious and the anti-religious, and the foundations of human rights before spouting this type of crap.

Answer 6

Indeed.

I was always lead to believe that there was a seperation of church and state in the US. However these distinct lines have become very blurred over the past few years.

I have no objection to a politicians personal beliefs, but those same beliefs and those of his core support group should be left outside of the political arena.

Answer 7

free radical said it best, someday we'll have some sort of figure that gets control of the masses which no longer hold respect for the constitution. That then will be the doom of this representive democracy.

Answer 8

No. It hangs around outside Home Depots early in the morning and annoys the hell out of real Americans.

Answer 9

Yes, because there are preachers out there who wish to see this country become a theocracy and are preaching politics from their pulpits. That is wrong and unconstitutional.

Answer 10

Only within the GOP. Those hypocrites apparently do not appreciate the rights that are guaranteed by the US Constitution.