Because the First Amendment protects us too, especially as Christianity is losing membership in this country, and we don't want to set a precedent that minority religions can be restricted.Sounds like the solution is to reject liberalism. The Satanists and Liberal Christians can be on one side, the rest of us the other.
Why would any Christian actively want to defend the Satanic?
Is Christianity even worth defending if we have to defend Satanism alongside of it?Because the First Amendment protects us too, especially as Christianity is losing membership in this country, and we don't want to set a precedent that minority religions can be restricted.
The Constitution forbids state endorsement of religion. That's worth defending.The problem being that this just leads to there being no statues of Jesus, Ten Commandment statues or any other official insignia that bears a resemblance to religion. Which is exactly the point and goal of the Satanists in the USA.
If Liberalism leads to this, it's not worth defending.
Why? Is religion an idea not worth endorsing or enshrining into the state?The Constitution forbids state endorsement of religion. That's worth defending.
Which religion gets endorsed or enshrined though? What happens to the people who aren't part of that religion when they try to legislate based on their faith. What happens to the members of the "official" religion when the state tries to tell them how they can or can't worship or tries to mandate what they believe? Separation of Church and State is important for both Church and State.Why? Is religion an idea not worth endorsing or enshrining into the state?
Which religion gets endorsed or enshrined though? What happens to the people who aren't part of that religion when they try to legislate based on their faith. What happens to the members of the "official" religion when the state tries to tell them how they can or can't worship or tries to mandate what they believe? Separation of Church and State is important for both Church and State.
What happens when Christians are no longer the majority religion? Or the "wrong" type of Christianity takes hold of the government. The early US had theocracies, and saw the damage they could do, which is why the First Amendment was instituted.What happens to non Christian religions? They are disfavoured politically and socially. Is there a problem with this idea?
What happens when Christians are no longer the majority religion? Or the "wrong" type of Christianity takes hold of the government. The early US had theocracies, and saw the damage they could do, which is why the First Amendment was instituted.
I literally do the daily office everyday in the nearby public park. There is no difficulty expressing my faith. Christians aren't given freedom to ignore laws that apply to everybody, but that's not undermining Christianity. And it protects Christians by not allowing the religious minority to pass laws against them.You mean like will be in the not to distance future? IF your argument is that the current system protect Christianity and Christians, how does it do that given demographic decline of Christians in the USA? Not even just the USA but any western Liberal country?
How does the current system in the US benefit Christianity instead of undermine it? I would compare the status of Christians in the US to approaching a Dhimmi status under secular liberalism. Christians at the moment are finding themselves able to express their faith publically less and less. Doesn't sound all that great to me.
I literally do the daily office everyday in the nearby public park. There is no difficulty expressing my faith. Christians aren't given freedom to ignore laws that apply to everybody, but that's not undermining Christianity. And it protects Christians by not allowing the religious minority to pass laws against them.
Christians at the moment are finding themselves able to express their faith publically less and less.
What is the source for this claim?
Why would a Christian carelessly want anyone to worship Satan?
the criminalization of religions has been brought up in this thread a few times. Each time its Christians advocating that other religions be criminalizedSatanism is not tolerant. If it becomes the leading religion, it would criminalize other religions.
link?the criminalization of religions has been brought up in this thread a few times. Each time its Christians advocating that other religions be criminalized
Just because there have been atheist regimes that have been horribly repressive doesn't mean that Christianity hasn't also been oppressive over the centuries.Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Atheist Mexico, Republican Spain, Communist China and modern secular liberal democracies put a damper on this idea don't they?
Why then are you arguing secular progressivism is superior to Christianity and it's regimes or culture? DO you believe the moral prescriptions of Christianity are outdated and that believers in Christ simply cannot be trusted with power?Just because there have been atheist regimes that have been horribly repressive doesn't mean that Christianity hasn't also been oppressive over the centuries.
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