To have no religious test for civil office communicates there is zero connection between religious belief & morality/ability to rule well.
Of course, this is clearly false. Those rejecting future judgment cannot be trusted (which is why courts once prohibited atheist testimony).
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If the only thing keeping you from doing bad things is a fear that the most powerful being in the entire universe will be mad at you, you’re a sociopath and a coward.
“(which is why courts once prohibited atheist testimony)”
Those rejecting future judgment cannot be trusted
You idiots know that we have courts and punishment in this mortal realm, too, right?
There is no religious test for civil office because requiring such has resulted in disasters throughout history. If there are religious tests, then civil servants are usually proving their piety instead of dealing with their responsibilities. Those civil servants answer to those proffering the tests instead of the citizens they are supposed to serve.
Without religious tests, civil service positions are awarded to those most capable of meeting their responsibilities, regardless of their religion or lack thereof.
Y’all want us to be Geneva under Calvin. What a fucking nightmare. There is a reason that regime isn’t around anymore - it didn’t work!
ZG: “Since the only reason I try to be good people!”
Glad to hear you whinging about something which is written into our Constitution. It is written... Section 116.
Oh and atheists can make an affirmation in court, they have that choice, just as Xtians can swear on the Bible or Muslims on the Qur'an. They are basically all swearing on their own heads - or on the arse that can be locked up for perjury.
https://tenor.com/view/you-have-no-power-over-me-labyrinth-no-power-gif-8065394
History has shown again and again that some religious people claiming to be morally superior have misled and abused others. There's no valid reason to believe that self-inflated, elitists, narcissists or liars should be trusted with special authority. There is plenty of evidence that they have no special access to "truth" anyway. It's those fools who would like to bypass the necessary separation of church and state, for their own egoistic purposes. Instead of recognizing that it can enjoy the freedom to subsist and practice its faith just like other groups, if your cult expects you to hate and persecute other people, it's only more evidence that its leaders should not be trusted and that you're likely one of the next victims.
This only makes sense in the context that there are no Christians who believe that so long as they go to church regularly and repent their sins, that’s all they need to do. And then some of them keep forgetting to do even that much. Most such people barely even try to behave themselves, and I doubt they’d be very trustworthy witnesses. One could claim that they’re “not real Christians”, but since you don’t know who most of those people are if you don’t know them personally, they count just as much of a Christian as virtually anyone else, including an atheist who lies about their religious status. And I will point out that most atheists used to lie about their religious status, even if only by omission, for their own safety.
(Of course it’s still incorrect even in-context, it just makes sense from a position of ignorance.)
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