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Author Topic:   Randman's call for nonSecular education...
Buzsaw
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Message 202 of 226 (260779)
11-17-2005 11:54 PM
Reply to: Message 182 by Silent H
11-17-2005 5:31 PM


Re: teaching about is not the same as believing
Holmes, I've been following fundamentalist Christian evangelists, televangelists and listened to thousands of sermons, et al for the last 60 years and I don't remember of any who would impose anything on anyone by law. There's a difference in the free exercise of religion in and out of government and mandatory imposition of religion upon the citizens.
Since this nation, from the gitgo, has been majority protestant Christian, it has been an historical fact that Christianity has been freely exercised in and out of government without anyone being forced into any belief. When the republic was young and most were evangelical Biblicalists, the Bible and Watts Hymnal, et al were in all the schools, read and taught freely. As the people changed, that has changed as per the wishes of the people who have elected officials who have changed things. That's how it's suppose to work in a republic. The secularists have done the changing at the poles and by preaching their views. You're implying that televangelists shouldn't have the same rights to campaign for more religious input in government institutions such as the public schools. The secularists are winning out, so you people who are doing the whining about those who want more freedom to exercise religion as did our forfathers to be restored are the intolerant ones who want laws passed restricting freedom as per the Constitution and particularly the free exercise clause of the first amendment.
Randman is right. You need to document where televangelist or others are advocating laws which impose any religion on anyone. When the majority votes to remove religious stuff from the public arena, then let it happen, but activist individuals known as judges who have usurped more power than the elected officials in these things are imposing secularism upon the majority who do not yet want to be lawfully denied the free exercise of religion both in and out of the public arena. If this persists, our republic is finished and the land of the free is no more. The minority then rules as is the case in so many ruthless looser nations.

The immeasurable present is forever consuming the eternal future and extending the infinite past. buzsaw

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