re: #479 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Rights are relative but God’s Truth is absolute. And there is no arguing with people like that. And now people with that mindset have risen to positions of power and influence all throughout our government, society, military and educational system.

We can only hope to limit the damage they are setting out to do.

When religious groups have little power, or are weak or persecuted, they cry out for their rights to be respected. A notable American example is the Baptists, who were persecuted, jailed, exiled, or killed in New England, primarily by Congregationalists (Puritans).

They petitioned for (and won) the Separation of Church and State as expressed in the I Amendment. State power could no longer be used to discriminate or destroy one faith group or another.

But now, such groups that were once discriminated against are powerful. And now that they are, they no longer want tolerance or equality, they want “perfection.” That perfection means eroding the very same freedom they passionately argued for two hundred plus years ago.

This has been repeated throughout recorded history (as well as our own), whether the anti-Catholic sentiment, the anti-Jewish sentiment, &c.

I don’t know the answer to this. (One thing in common is they all would restrict my right to be free of religion.) It was the Catholics that got the “under God” put into the Pledge of Allegiance written by a Protestant socialist minister. Protestants used the Bible to justify Jim Crow laws for a hundred years, &c &c.