The people of this country are not the bad guys.
But is increasingly clear that many people in the top echelons of power and influence are downright Satanic.
This is not limited to government officials or politicians either. How many celebrities out of Hollywood have little regard for Jesus? If they do acknowledge Him, it is usually in the same breath as Buddha or Ghandi or some other eastern mystic.
There was good reason for the Inquisition. The reasons to demonize it come from the very people who probably would have been executed for extreme heresy.
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For god’s sake, THE UNITED STATES IS NOT A THEOCRACY! the first amendment is not just speech but it also includes press and RELIGION, which is to say; you are allowed to worship any religion you want in the United States. It's unconstitutional to establish ANY kind of official state religion in the United States, no matter how much you want one! So, take your pacifier and shut up!
Some of the people in your country are bad guys, some people are good guys.
The top “echelons” of power? Fancy wording… You mean Trump? Moscow Mitch? The Koch brothers (though the younger is now dead)? The DeVos hag?
How many conservatives have little regards for Jesus? Have they even read Matthew 25:31-46, or Acts 2:44-46?
You’re aware that some inquisitions were the traditional Catholics attacking the newfangled protestants as heretics, right?
Non-fundie: “The United States is not a theocracy!”
Mark Fox: “Well, it SHOULD be!!”
And that’s what Fox says.
The reasons to demonize it come from the very people who probably would have been executed for extreme heresy. Do you somehow think that makes their opposition to it invalid? No, by the contrary, that is a very good reason for them to oppose it!
Well, you don’t get to do that. Try killing any of us, in some misguided purge and you’ll find yourself on the wrong side of the lethal injection VERY quickly. Try killing me personally, and I’ll shoot you like a dog in self defence.
@Swede
“I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others. And the higher the pretensions of such power, the more dangerous I think it both to rulers and to the subjects. Hence Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant a robber barron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point may be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely more because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.
“And since Theocracy is the worst, the nearer any government approaches to Theocracy the worse it will be. A metaphysic held by the rulers with the force of a religion, is a bad sign. It forbids them, like the inquisitor, to admit any grain of truth or good in their opponents, it abrogates the ordinary rules of morality, and it gives a seemingly high, super-personal sanction to all the very ordinary human passions by which, like other men, the rulers will frequently be actuated. In a word, it forbids wholesome doubt. A political programme can never in reality be more than probably right. We never know all the facts about the present and we can only guess the future. To attach to a party programme — whose highest claim is to reasonable prudence — the sort of assent which we should reserve for demonstrable theorems, is a kind of intoxication.”
- C. S. Lewis, a famously devout Christian, on why religious-based governments are a VERY bad idea.
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