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1 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Sat, Aug 20, 2011 4:16:47am

I think we tried this in the 1800’s. I seem to recall treating other human beings as animals and women as property as being part of the deal.

I’ll pass.

2 darkagegirl  Sat, Aug 20, 2011 6:00:12am
Everyone I know in NAR would absolutely reject this idea, thinking back to Constantine’s failed experiment or some of the oppressive Islamic governments today.

A significant chunk of my dissertation is on Constantine and his religious policy, and I have absolutely no clue what he thinks he’s talking about there. Now that’s going to bother me until I figure it out.

3 FemNaziBitch  Sat, Aug 20, 2011 6:35:00am

As I understand it, G-d’s Kingdom is Heaven.

So, (in my limited logical capacity) To establish G-d’s Kingdom on Earth, I’d think that would mean everyone would have to be dead.

Where, exactly, is my syllogism not sound?

4 JEA62  Sat, Aug 20, 2011 6:35:20am

I must be a freakin’ moron because I fail to see the difference between the two.

5 docproto48  Sat, Aug 20, 2011 7:38:15am

Correct me if I am wrong but as I recall part of the reason for “separation of church and state” was the very immeadiate issue of a theocracy called The Curch of England and not so much religion or not but not being told which religion or how to carry out the one at hand.
Being a Unitarian will put me in deep doodoo. One Unitarian church has already been viciously attacked (Knoxville TN) a couple of years ago for being “weak liberals” I guess I shouldn’t support NPR eiher

6 BishopX  Sat, Aug 20, 2011 7:02:14pm

re: #4 JEA62

I think what he trying to say is that they don’t want explicit Church control of the Government. They just want their kind of Christians to hold all the secular levers of power. Which basically comes down to saying that the establishment clause of the constitution which prohibits religious tests for offices doesn’t prevent organizations from only backing their kinds of Christians when running for office and it doesn’t prevent people for only voting for their kind of Christian. It’s an old boy network style of oppression as compared to Jim Crow.

The scary thing is that they are right. There isn’t any structural component of American Law to stop them from doing just that. I’m not sure it’s possible to build legalistic safeguard capable of stopping them without destroying the country.


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