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paper_turtle
- Reclaim America for "Christ"
In response to
Reclaim America for "Christ" posted by
BrianTubbs:
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Brian wrote:
2) If you are defining "theocracy" as Christians engaged in the political process to the extent that they wish to elect professing Christians to office and have policies consistent with biblical teachings or evangelical teachings or whatever adjective you want to use.....well...then, my response is...isn't that democracy?
Yes, every person has the right to engage in the political process, and of course one's beliefs and values will influence which issues (and/or which side of an issue) one wants to support.
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No, it is *not* a democracy if Christianity becomes THE law of the land. The same would be true if it were atheism, or Buddhism, or Islam, or Rastafarianism. America is a pluralistic society, with a constitutional commitment to the separation of church and state.
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People of high moral principle who are not Christians might support some of the same issues being supported by conservative Christians, but *not* in the interests of seeing any one system of belief become the ONE belief system of the entire nation.
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Now, from your point of view, it probably does not seem as if this is what Conservative Christians are doing, but this *is* how it seems to liberals, whether Christian or not. Certainly Falwell has said and done things which give creedence to the belief that he would like to see America exclusively Christian.
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peace and love,
Paper Turtle
