alt.education

"DanielSan" skrev i en meddelelse
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> thomas p. said the following on 3/8/2008 12:42 AM:
>
>> Today, in the US, all people have the right to believe in any kind of god
>> they like or in no kind of god at all. They have the right to express
>> their opinions about the merits or lack thereof of any religious
>> teaching. A person is a citizen regardless of his religious beliefs or
>> lack of his beliefs. He can be any variety of Christian, Jew, Buddhist,
>> Hindu or any other religion, or he can have no religion at all; he will
>> still be a citizen with all the rights of citizenship. If the
>> Constitution was only for the people you approve of, none of the above
>> would be true.
>
> See, that's the scary thing about a theocracy. It is necessarily limiting
> the freedoms of the people therein. If the land is Christian, then you
> may only practice the religion of Christianity (and since there are so
> many denominations and sects, which one is the one that'll be law?). If
> you practice another religion or do not practice religion at all, you're
> screwed.


The result in the US will be 1000 times worse than what happened in
Yugoslavia.


>
> Check out what they do to you if you even OWN a Bible in Saudi Arabia.
>
> That's what theocracy will get you: Lack of freedom.
>
> It's why I tell advocates of theocracies: "You'd better have the right
> religion, then."

It will be much worse than Saudi Arabia. At least there it is one, simple
choice. In the US it will be total anarchy that will make the religious
wars of Germany look like a romp through the park.

JD makes it quite clear that people who do not fit his brand of Christianity
should not be considered citizens at all. This kind of thinking used to be
just funny, but now there are some very dangerous lunatics in powerful
positions working very hard to achieve the Christian version of the Taliban
regime in Afghanistan. The majority of Christians should be just as
concerned as many non-Christians are. Part of the lunatics' program is the
rewriting of history, which is easy to do in a country where so many people
have so little knowledge of their own past.