Democracy is a religion? Does that mean you burn in hell if you don’t vote? That’s a theology I think I could get behind.
For the record, I could tell what it was going to say after the first paragraph, and upon discovering that it extended for approximately 1,000,000 pages, I stopped reading.
Well, that would explain Fred Phelps, Jack Chick, George W. Bush, and pro wrestling… 
Ummm… obviously. I’m surprised that someone who’s so sane as you, Polycarp, would deign to treat this as anything other than the nutsoid rant that it is. Yes, this nut believes a Christian theocracy is the only appropriate form of government and that anything else is pure evil.
While acknowledging the tongue-in-cheekiness of this comment… Be it known that the RCC has officially disowned divine right forms of government and embraced freedom of conscience (with concurrent freedom of religion) with the reforms of Vatican Council II in 1962. So, by Vatican standards, the U.S. Constitution’s first amendment is OK.
Peace.
If we outlaw atheism, only outlaws will be atheists.
I mean, what is the bloody point of trying to enact laws that force people to carry out the [outward trappings of]/[appearance of belief] in this or that religion when the core principle of this or that religion is that you actually have to [do it]/[believe it] for real.
Ahh, but you see if the appearance of belief were enforced, then people like this would find it easier to blind themselves to the idea that everyone isn’t just like them, and everyone doesn’t want to be just like them. He wouldn’t be faced with the whole “people are different!” dilemma.
Getting back to the post itself, I would say this person fails to understand the basis of both American history and Christianity. Then again, he’d probably say the same of me.
CJ
I’m sorry, but the original post overloaded my “mindless ignorance” buffer…
I’m sorry, but the original post overloaded my “mindless ignorance” buffer…
*The Quote, not the OP.
The joys of moral relativism. Stops one from being daft as a brush.
Is this fellow’s name Nehemiah Scudder by any chance?
Heh! 
:eek:
Nope – but I guarantee he’s around!
Because if the society is structured so that you’re taught from birth that only religion X is acceptable and good, and people who don’t believe religion X are punished, you’re more likely to believe in religion X than if you’re taught that all religions are acceptable and people who don’t believe in religion X are tolerated.
The first thing I see is the unrelenting HATE boiling up from the pits of his soul.
How very holy and god-like.
Hey, I used to really, really hate America but this quote has made me rethink my position.
Mom!!! Who let you on the internet again? But a more important question is… when did you buy a thesaurus and who explained to you how to use it? :eek:
Actually, what little I could get through, made me think of some Satan spawn offspring between JustThink and H4E.
shudder
Hmm… I’ve always said I’m not religious and have no faith, but I believe so strongly in those rights so hated by the insane person quoted in the OP, that maybe that’s a kind of faith. Yep; Liberty is my God, and the Constitution is my Bible.
I guess that psychologically interesting little essay boils down to this statement near the end: “It shouldn’t be difficult for the leaders, the so-called educated and the so-called experts of America to perceive the simple fact that an homogeneous society is better than a heterogeneous or pluralistic society.” Even without the religious raving preceding it, isn’t that statement itself pretty damn chilling?