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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] [i]I fail to see the logic in making religion a foundation of any country.[/i] Depends on how you go about it. I'd say that if you were gonna make Christianity the foundation of any country, since Christianity is based on love you'd have to do whatever you could to accomidate everyone's religion, except where it harms someone else. Making people hate you by making them go through irrelevant motions would just be stupid if you're trying to change their mind, now wouldn't it? But, *shrug*. [i]So, legally, he should have to take it down whether Washington tells him to, or not.[/i] See, this is one reason the court system is kinda screwy. Given the stance that the Supreme Court of whatever state (including the US) is the ultimate arbiter of the laws of that state, you can get into situations where that court does illegal things, and nobody can override them. The Florida Supreme Court rewriting election laws three years ago, for a more dangerous example. In that case their new laws violated the US Constitution, and the US Supreme Court was right to intervene, but such situations are still very dangerous. I suppose you just have to hope that all judges are, in fact, wise and enlightened. What we REALLY need is a system where no humans are involved at all. :) [i]I think you could (generously) stretch that statement to mean that every religion doesn't hav an eqivelent, such as "I am the (insert appicable deity), you shall have no other (non-applicable deities) before me/us".[/i] Polytheistic religions? [i] I do believe that the Bible has a verse that says somehting to the idea of not letting a witch suffer to live.[/i] Okay, no offense, but I'm REALLY tired of this kind of argument. The Bible is NOT one frelling huge list of rules, cover to cover, talking directly to the reader. It's a record of what people have said and done at various points in history. Just because there's a record of someone, even if it's God, saying the words "Kill all the witches" doesn't mean WE, NOW are supposed to kill all witches. Context is everything. That verse, for example, is in the Old Testament, it's God talking to the Jews IIRC. Since I'm NOT a Jew, I'm not required to follow that rule, any more than I'm required to go celebrate the Passover in Jerusalem every year. He wasn't talking to me. [i]We are united as one universal church because some of us are faithful enough to see beyond denominational differences that divide us.[/i] Oh, yay, it's not just me! :D I think the confusion may be stemming from the fact that Catholic [i]means[/i] "Universal", which it was until the Reformation. Saying the "universal church" can thus be vague. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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