Quick Question

[CriticalMassKitten]

Ok, I've seen some people on here saying that America should be a mainly Christian nation. I just have one simple question, why? I'll forget about the seperation of church and state thing for this thread, I just want to hear some reasons.

I will of course still reply to posts.

 

[The Nihilist]

Freedom is for suckers! Theocracy is the way to go! Hurray Taliban I mean Christianity!

 

[Arnold_Philips]

Because they know what's best for everyone. It says so right there in their holy book.

 

[divalishous]

I am Christian, which you can see by my little icon thingy, and would like very much for all the people I love to know God. I do not, however, feel like the many demonitions of Christianity should be able to impose their convictions on others.
It greatly saddens me that there are many Christians who show their own intolerance OVER their love and compassion of mankind.
I don't think Chrisitians should exhibit anger when somone else's beliefs don't coincide with their own, but rather live their life as a testimony to their faith.
I think that the Christian faith is best represented by those that ACTUALLY think of Jesus' teachings which were mostly about love, and try to live their lives in the same way.

I would guess that people would say that America SHOULD be a Christian nation because they
1. wish that everyone they love knew God
2. think that if everyone lived a life that coincided with "love thy neighbor as you love thyself" there would be a lot less problems.

That said, I strongly believe that everyone should be able to practice any faith they choose, whether it is a belief in God, Allah, Buddha, the Prophet Muhammad, or the faith that they have in Science, Forensics, Biology etc. I believe that when God gave us free will He made it clear that we should have freedom to choose our religion.
He did not "make" us love Him or obey Him he gave us the choice. He wants us to come to Him willingly, to love and to trust Him. I would figure that Christians that make the statement in the OP do not think of it like this, OR it has to do with the Seperation of church and state.
Just my opinion.

 

[CriticalMassKitten]

I am Christian, which you can see by my little icon thingy, and would like very much for all the people I love to know God. I do not, however, feel like the many demonitions of Christianity should be able to impose their convictions on others.
It greatly saddens me that there are many Christians who show their own intolerance OVER their love and compassion of mankind.
I don't think Chrisitians should exhibit anger when somone else's beliefs don't coincide with their own, but rather live their life as a testimony to their faith.
I think that the Christian faith is best represented by those that ACTUALLY think of Jesus' teachings which were mostly about love, and try to live their lives in the same way.

I would guess that people would say that America SHOULD be a Christian nation because they
1. wish that everyone they love knew God
2. think that if everyone lived a life that coincided with "love thy neighbor as you love thyself" there would be a lot less problems.

That said, I strongly believe that everyone should be able to practice any faith they choose, whether it is a belief in God, Allah, Buddha, the Prophet Muhammad, or the faith that they have in Science, Forensics, Biology etc. I believe that when God gave us free will He made it clear that we should have freedom to choose our religion.
He did not "make" us love Him or obey Him he gave us the choice. He wants us to come to Him willingly, to love and to trust Him. I would figure that Christians that make the statement in the OP do not think of it like this, OR it has to do with the Seperation of church and state.
Just my opinion.

They probably don't, I wouldn't think. Most people will attempt to prove you wrong with this too sadly. I've only seen a couple of people actually think that the US should be a Christian nation, so I really didn't expect too many posts.

The main problem I always find with a government run by a certain religion is that the leaders can be extremely incompatent when it comes to running a nation. A great example of this would be Nicholas II in Russia. He believed he was chosen by god to run the nation, but he certainly wasn't a good leader. Then you have the people that have extreme views on religion, and that's when you get people such as Hitler. I believe a quote by him basically says he was doing what he did for faith. I deffinatly don't think that most people will do such a thing as Hitler, but religion was the reason for doing what he did according to him at least.