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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
The USA was literally founded, as an experiment in religious freedom. The Judeo-Christian principles that our founding fathers relied on to construct the nation from the ground up, are the exact reason why (despite our MANY flaws) we are the greatest country the earth has ever known.
Religion is why there aren't any black slaves living on your street. And it's why, for now at least, blacks and whites can go to the same schools and eat in the same restaurants.
When you tell a Christian baker his choices are (1) violate his religious beliefs and stay open, or (2) close his business, that's where we run into problems in this country.
Separation of church and state doesn't mean (doesn't even come close to meaning) that religion is excluded from setting public policy. It means there's no official religion that gets preferential treatment over others. Today, many Christians feel like they're getting the short end of the stick.
I'll take public policy influenced by faith, over godless public policy, any day. Democrats feel the opposite. One reason why I say it's time for 2 countries, because that's a tough divide to bridge.
You say it's brainwashed for Cjristians to feel we're under attack. When many democrats were opposed to Amy Barrett specifically because of her catholicism, that's a direct attack on religious liberty. It's long settled in the US that there's no religious litmus test to serve in public office. We don't exclude people for religious reasons, at least, we didn't used to.
The left, at least the progressive left, despises faith. Because the judeo christian principles that were used as the foundation of the nation, are incompatible with current liberalism. They want people to believe in government, not God. You are absolutely entitled to that, and we are entitled to say "no thanks" to that.
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If the authors of the constitution had wanted a religious state they would have written it.
They didn’t.
They were wise enough to realize organized religion is a means of control and purposely differentiated it from government.
When 2/3 of the Supreme Court is compromised of one religion and the Court has issues as an institution, perhaps it is wise to question.
Mario Cuomo said in 1984:
“The Catholic who holds political office in a pluralistic democracy — who is elected to serve Jews and Muslims, atheists and Protestants, as well as Catholics — bears special responsibility,” Cuomo said. “He or she undertakes to help create conditions under which all can live with a maximum of dignity and with a reasonable degree of freedom; where everyone who chooses may hold beliefs different from specifically Catholic ones — sometimes contradictory to them; where the laws protect people’s right to divorce, to use birth control and even to choose abortion.”
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