The fear that drives me
Whenever I hear someone talking about how this (the U.S.A.) is a christian nation with out christian military and our christian morals and our christian founding fathers, this is the sort of world I think of: one where persecution of the minority is not only accepted and applauded but also not punished by the government.
Religious persecution is widespread, report warns - CNN.com
We already have Kansas and Texas with their fight to put _creationsism_ in textbooks and schools; we have Oklahoma weedling christian morals into medical science and we have pharmacists and politicians using their conservative christian values to undermine policy. And many many more examples.
Of course those who urge this nation to move more towards the Bible and further away from the Constitution argue that this would never happen, but doesn't it already? Doesn't it happen in the British Isles, between the RCC and Protestants and between christians and neo-pagan religions?
If you justify persecution by legitimizing it within the confines of government, you're opening a floodgate. Imaging, students being turned away from schools because their parents' are atheists, not being allowed to vote because you're a follower of Islam, or being denied a car or home loan because you're not a registered catholic.
Scary.
Religious persecution is widespread, report warns - CNN.com
We already have Kansas and Texas with their fight to put _creationsism_ in textbooks and schools; we have Oklahoma weedling christian morals into medical science and we have pharmacists and politicians using their conservative christian values to undermine policy. And many many more examples.
Of course those who urge this nation to move more towards the Bible and further away from the Constitution argue that this would never happen, but doesn't it already? Doesn't it happen in the British Isles, between the RCC and Protestants and between christians and neo-pagan religions?
If you justify persecution by legitimizing it within the confines of government, you're opening a floodgate. Imaging, students being turned away from schools because their parents' are atheists, not being allowed to vote because you're a follower of Islam, or being denied a car or home loan because you're not a registered catholic.
Scary.
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