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Xeno-x - theocratic nation proponents work on two failed assumptions
First that it is their specific religion that becomes the official state religion and secondly that they themselves will not have any problems living within that theocratic society. They are basically saying to hell with everyone else and their beliefs while ignoring the reality of modern day Christian partisanship. The ultimate question they refuse to address is: which religion would become the official state religion? By sheer numbers it would have to be Catholicism. The only way these numbers could be defeated is through the forming of allegiances, associations and a whole lot of compromise on points of dogmatic interpretation. . . . but then it is no longer their religion that would be the official state religion.
Instead they would be either subjected to Catholicism or a hybridized version of protestantism, both of which would leave more people on the outside than on the inside.
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gomedome
on August 16, 2008 at 11:17 AM
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Re: it is odd that fundamentalists don't understand this in their frenzy
but they weren't, and it wasn't, to the eternal gratitude of numberless Baptists, Catholics, Wesleyans and such.
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Xeno-x
on August 16, 2008 at 5:51 AM
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it is odd that fundamentalists don't understand this in their frenzy
to reestablish religion in public places.
I've said this before, that to negate the neutrality of the government in religious matters, to bring down the wall between church and state, would be just the beginning in a crisis of religion. a chain of events that would leave many of them out of the loop, or having to convert to a religion they despised (probably no repeat of the Inquisition -- right?)
If our founding fathers really were what the fundamentalists say they were, adhering to a god and wanting god in government and religion prominent, then we probably would have a state religion -- and, since the overwhelming majority of them were Episcopalians, then I think we can guess at what the State Church would have been.
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Xeno-x
on August 16, 2008 at 5:50 AM
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