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Quote by: Okieslims  In my opinion, right wingers tend to be the most patriotic people in America. That said, they also tend to be the most religious people in America, and they seem to desire their religion to be incorperated into our schools, laws, etc. If you disagree with them, they make claims that we would have no laws or morals without christianity as a guide and point to the decloration of indipendence and many other founding documents that reference God to strengthen the words on the paper.
I think this mind set lessens the freedom we have in America and I think it is leading us down a dangerous path. I would like to draw a comparison to other countries that incorperate religion into their laws and schools. Muslim nations that live by the book to a far greater degree than the vast majority of christians ever would. Religion, when mixed into the laws of a society, works to remove freedom from the people. A long time ago a friend of mine, in the air force, witnessed a man get his head cut off in the middle east(forget which country he said) for cheating on his wife. This happened in the middle of a town square. Would this have happened if people didnt use the law to punish this man for sinning against God? Women are forced to cover themselves from head to toe, people that believe in other Gods are expelled from the community or worse(sometimes killed), and punishment for sins follows the brutality of the old testiment.
Right wingers love to link left wingers and middle easterners together to make the left seem more radical. I think that the middle easterners have more in common with the religious right though. I think the only difference is that middle easterners live by their religious scriptures..they walk it... and American christians simply talk it.. but they want to incorperate it into the laws and do a whole lot more walking and thats kind of scary.
SO I hope this little-early mornin rant helps some of you folks realize why mixing religion and politics is a dangerous-freedom sucking practice. |
Although I get your point, I'm thinking it hasn't done all that much harm, and this country did get to be great with it, not without it. They say, "don't tamper with success".
Could be right about the ME's which probably isn't really a good thing. They are happy to die for the 72 virgins. Christians aren't really suicidal, it actually goes against the religion.