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Moby's quote is a spin off the rejection of Falwell's Moral Majority, which
said that it was neither moral nor a majority. And you're right. The beauty of our Constitution, as long as we keep our government separated from our religious fanatics, is that it allows such diversity. The problem with the Christian right is that they want to make sure that the whole world knows that the U.S. is a Christian nation, want to legislate and enforce Christian mandated laws, narrowly defining the parameters of American life to fit their definition of god's word, exactly contradicting not only the Constitution but one of the key tenets that has allowed the United States to become the prosperous model nation it has become. Where's the freedom of religion in thier aspirations other than the freedom of their own to dictate?
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saul_relative
on August 25, 2007 at 2:03 PM
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the "Christian Right"
It's funny - right now they can see themselves as a unified "Christian Right", but were they to get what they wanted (a "Christian" nation), their differences would immediately become apparent. Some would want a Baptist nation, some a Mormon nation, Church of Christ, etc... eventually everyone would be required to believe exactly the same things, which would make only a very small group of people happy. What they don't understand is that EVERYONE could be happy if we accept the fact that people aren't the same, and CANNOT all believe the same things. One of my favourite quotes on this subject is by the musician Moby: "The 'Christian Right' is neither [Christian nor Right]."
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eponymous
on August 25, 2007 at 10:10 AM
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Right you are, eponymous, a point made by many advocates of separation.
What annoys me most about the Christian right is their blindness to this very fact.
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saul_relative
on August 22, 2007 at 10:03 PM
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B.F.
Bejamin Franklin was a very intelligent man (though if he were alive today, I would never tell him so, as he was also a very conceited man).
The separation of church and state (though not necessarily a natural tendency) is optimal for the masses (and thus for both the government AND for the churches).
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eponymous
on August 22, 2007 at 9:48 PM
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