I'm a christian. No denomination. I go to church every sunday. We all do need to be careful that we dont turn this country in to a christian extremist nation. Things can get out of control fast. People have many ideas what it is to be a christian and many ideas of religion. It can be dangerous in the wrong hands.
I’d be with you on not enforcing doctrinal specifics, but posting the Ten Commandments publicly is far from that.
Christianity should be compatible with Judaism, and Islam may be redeemable at some point, but Hinduism and other religious systems inhabit a completely different mode of ethics that really just aren’t compatible with our form of law, as best as I understand them.
Do we worry about accommodating the incompatible in order to hold ourselves accountable to our own rules, when the people who we are trying to accommodate don’t have any affinity for those same rules?
Alinsky 101.
Further than that, if we continue to deny the foundations of God, would that not deem us worthy of destruction under His rules? Is that perhaps why we are in the very situation we are in now, a biblical judgment for disobedience?
I agree the 10 commandments are good. I just dont want a society where everyone is telling everyone else what to do and making everyone conform to their beliefs. That's where we are right now with the left. The pendulum swings both ways.
Yes but we’ve also seen it swinging away from that for 30 years.
I used to argue against sodomy laws and such, then 10 years later they got power and tried to force men into womens’ bathrooms in churches.
It’s not that if we abdicate authority that they will capitulate, it’s that there is power, it will be wielded, just be sure to be wise about it because with whatsoever measure you judge, you will be judged.
I am 10,000% comfortable with that measure of judgment being the Ten Commandments, and if we abdicate that, we are asking for exactly what we are seeing.
If you would like to argue that specific items of concern like sodomy laws should still be off the table, that’s still a very valid line of discussion, which can center around tactics, but the Ten Commandments are too foundational to abdicate.
Remember, cannibalism is a religious practice, so if we are truly going to say we can’t endorse any religion, we have to accept cannibalism. Child sacrifice is a religious practice, so if we are truly going to say we can’t endorse any religion, we better be ok with firing up those altars of moloch.
I have tried the tolerance and making peace with the world route, it doesn’t work, and tolerance is not a Christian virtue.
I'm a christian. No denomination. I go to church every sunday. We all do need to be careful that we dont turn this country in to a christian extremist nation. Things can get out of control fast. People have many ideas what it is to be a christian and many ideas of religion. It can be dangerous in the wrong hands.
I’d be with you on not enforcing doctrinal specifics, but posting the Ten Commandments publicly is far from that.
Christianity should be compatible with Judaism, and Islam may be redeemable at some point, but Hinduism and other religious systems inhabit a completely different mode of ethics that really just aren’t compatible with our form of law, as best as I understand them.
Do we worry about accommodating the incompatible in order to hold ourselves accountable to our own rules, when the people who we are trying to accommodate don’t have any affinity for those same rules?
Alinsky 101.
Further than that, if we continue to deny the foundations of God, would that not deem us worthy of destruction under His rules? Is that perhaps why we are in the very situation we are in now, a biblical judgment for disobedience?
I agree the 10 commandments are good. I just dont want a society where everyone is telling everyone else what to do and making everyone conform to their beliefs. That's where we are right now with the left. The pendulum swings both ways.
Yes but we’ve also seen it swinging away from that for 30 years.
I used to argue against sodomy laws and such, then 10 years later they got power and tried to force men into womens’ bathrooms in churches.
It’s not that if we abdicate authority that they will capitulate, it’s that there is power, it will be wielded, just be sure to be wise about it because with whatsoever measure you judge, you will be judged.
I am 10,000% comfortable with that measure of judgment being the Ten Commandments, and if we abdicate that, we are asking for exactly what we are seeing.
If you would like to argue that specific items of concern like sodomy laws should still be off the table, that’s still a very valid line of discussion, which can center around tactics, but the Ten Commandments are too foundational to abdicate.
Remember, cannibalism is a religious practice, so if we are truly going to say we can’t endorse any religion, we have to accept cannibalism. Child sacrifice is a religious practice, so if we are truly going to say we can’t endorse any religion, we better be ok with firing up those altars of moloch.
I have tried the tolerance and making peace with the world route, it doesn’t work, and tolerance is not a Christian virtue.
Christian extremist?
You mean, an actually Christian nation?
Ya, the assholes that wanna ban books and movies and games. The assholes that wont let people look at a nudey magazine if they want to.