Hi Nash,quote:Originally posted by NashBama:Wrong. When politics and religion mix, you get disaster. The crusades during the middle ages is a good example of when religious leaders have too much political power and their greed causes wars. Every time they sent an army to the middle east, the returning soldiers brought back lots of loot. The Spanish inquisition mixed political leadership with religion, how many people did that kill?quote:Why should we separate them? A nation with strong Christian leadership is a strong nation.
That's why our founding fathers were so genius. They made sure the federal government stayed out of religion, yet granted freedom of religion and expression.
Religion should stay out of politics and politics out of religion. Theocracies historically have been about as oppressive and murderous as communism. The fact that there are still people out there who want America to become a theocracy scares the hell out of me. America was intended to allow it's citizens to be free, and the type of country you want eliminates freedom.
You are speaking of having church leaders ruling a country. That is a theocracy and that is not what anyone in their right mind would want. However, to have strong Christians in the governing bodies makes good sense. Consider this. In a governing body, if you have no Christians; then what you have is a 100% secular body of leaders. That would be like having all Democrats or all Republicans -- no balance of power. That is why the founding fathers gave us three bodies: legislative, judicial, and executive -- to give balance to the governing of America. So, we need to have strong Christians in government leadership.
True, our founding fathers did give us the First Amendment, which says that government will not interfere with anyone's right to worship or not to worship, as they see fit. However, the First Amendment does not say that Christians cannot participate in governing the country. And, it does not say that Christian political leaders cannot use their Christian judgment in making decisions about how our country should be run.
This does not eliminate freedom -- this assures freedom; for no one is as dedicated to seeing that the people remain free to pursue their dreams as are Christians.
Now, if you say that because we do not want same-sex marriage; that is depriving gays from getting married -- that is not so. They have the same right to get married as you and I. The difference is -- they want to change the laws to allow them to do what has always been unlawful in America. Would you change the law to allow farmer John to marry his favorite sheep? Of course not; that is silly. And, so is changing the laws about traditional marriage.
Or, perhaps, you say that because we want the infanticide, abortion, stopped -- that is depriving people who want to kill their babies. You are right we want that mass murder stopped. Killing anyone should be illegal -- whether it be an unborn baby or an adult. That is not depriving anyone of their freedom. That is stopping them from taking the freedom to live from a helpless baby.
Sorry, Nash, your arguments are all the same old worn out arguments that Liberals have been using for decades -- and they are still just as impotent as the day the Liberals invented them.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
