Antiphon411 #fundie patheos.com

Your comment illustrates my argument nicely. The error of religious liberty is incompatible with Christian Faith. It is a Liberal idea and ultimately atheistic because it fosters religious indifferentism. I am not here to convert you, but rather to point out to my Christian friends that they should see religious liberty for what it is.

Incidentally, you should know by looking at the world around you that the removal of religious things from the public forum is an infringement on the religious rights of religious people. Most religions I know of are total world-views. (A possible exception would be Protestantism, which has always seemed a little half-assed to me.) Just as the Mahometan wants his state run according to sharia law, so too the Christian should want his whole society permeated with the Faith: God should be a beginning and end to all things.

Religious liberty is not a grown-up idea. To suggest that anyone, apart from milquetoast western Christians would allow themselves to be limited by the notion of religious liberty is absurd. There are really only two appropriate responses to a given religion: embrace it or suppress it.

But let us be honest, the latter is precisely what your ilk is aiming at with its commitment to religious liberty! If we cannot be friends, let us at least be honest enemies. I shall not lie to you and you will not--I hope--lie to me.

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