On 5/2/08 11:08 PM, in article Xns9A92E19F2C7BDbat222@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"tango"
<tango@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Very good article.
> http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/02/evangelicals.ap/index.html
Whether Pilgrim or Puritans America was founded by Religious peoples
seeking
freedom from the King of England but freedom to wor****p in their own ways
and not dictated by government but most certainly establi****ng a
government
not isolated from belief in God. The prelude leading to our Constitution
and Declaration of Independence including the Federalist papers were all
by
religious Christian men who I believe would be horrified at the way the
Judicial system has sought to remove Christianity from anything to do with
our Government. Even peoples rights to be atheist or agnostic and
choosing
not believe find their protections, to do so, from the desires and actions
of religious people to protect freedom at all cost but not to the point of
removing God from America. I feel that Christians and Religious people
ought to be very involved in our political system but not to control it in
a
religious theocracy or by some moral doctrine which imposes their own
denominational directives. This is what I believe the Puritans and
Pilgrims
would not want and wanted to protect against by the implementation of the
separation of church and state. They (Puritans and Pilgrims) suffered
much
under the King of England depending on which Church he aligned himself
with
either Anglican or Roman Catholic and the desire to get away from that
burden pushed them to seek a new life in America. Our freedoms and Moral
Laws though find their origins in Religion however and today we have a
society and Judicial System that wants to classify any religious person or
Christian as idiots and mind numb zombies following blindly religious
zealots. I'm also not saying that there isn't dangers when we allow a
human
theocracy to exist and control government for that's how we ended up with
the Salem Witch Trials. As much as there are some religious people who
accept just what the pastors say without their own thoughts or thinking so
we have an electorate that votes just the same and often times just on
political party alone and not on issues or performance of the candidates.
There are mind numb followers in every category and peoples but I still
feel
we live in an atmosphere of hostility toward Christians and for multiple
reasons and that hostility has permeated through the courts, Congress, and
our educational system and one attribute of that is failure to teach
history
correctly and an overt attempt to remove anything Christian from our
historical culture or past and certainly not to recognize God today.
As a Christian I feel that our religious past has created blessings upon
our
country and likewise I feel that as we separate ourselves from God and
attempt to do so willingly then we will inherit fruits of those decisions
and bring judgment upon ourselves, all be it self inflicted judgment.
Already the respect of life has diminished and an atmosphere of Greed has
become common place to the point we have become so individualistic we
don't
care for our fellow man or the common good anymore but it's get the most
while we can at any cost.
It's just an opinion, mine, but I feel many others would agree. One of
the
greatest disappointments I have are in the many self determined religious
leaders that due to their own greed, as in tele-evangelist, and personal
politics based upon their own beliefs, as in Pat Robinson or the
combination
of the two as was evidenced in Jim Baker and PTL, Christians have put
themselves in positions and places that they should have never been and in
positions that have harmed the cause of religion, Christianity and the
many
faithful believers in God.
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