Aren't religion and politics supposed to be kept separate?
Impossible! Politics is the expression of religion. It is the outward working of the inward belief system.
The myth that religion and politics are to be separated is a lie fostered to protect official government religions, which pretend that they aren't religions.
Besides, Christianity isn't a religion.
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"Besides, Christianity isn't a religion."
So then by your own arguments your christian faith should have nothing to do with your politics.
"Aren't religion and politics supposed to be kept separate?"
Yes, yes they are.
"Impossible! Politics is the expression of religion. It is the outward working of the inward belief system."
No, no it isn't.
"The myth that religion and politics are to be separated is a lie fostered to protect official government religions, which pretend that they aren't religions."
Does that mean that the various documents that your country was founded on are forgeries?
"Besides, Christianity isn't a religion. "
Then start paying some fucking taxes.
So many contradictions in just three bad written paragraphs!!!!. So, Christianity is not a religion but politics is the expression of religion(not at all, it's the laws employed to GOVERN the POLEIS, that is, the states).
"Besides, Christianity isn't a religion."
Correct, christianity is a myth.
If Christianity isn't a religion, they don't get 1st amendment protections.
So, Christianity isn't a religion, and all those Christian churches owe 200 years of back taxes. The IRS will take a check.
Besides, Christianity isn't a religion.
It's just a collective allucination, then?
'Tis the season to be squirly, fa la la la la yadda yadda
The current official government religion is Arrogant Stupidism. I'll be glad when that dies.
Christianity was never meant to be a religion, this is true.
Jocelyn:
"I am getting really tired of hearing "Christianity isn't a religion." Why do they not want that? "
Religious nuts have given religion a bad reputation. To avoid that reputation the nuts have taken to claiming what they do is not religion. In addition, they put all other (false) religions in the "religion" category, while their own (true) religion, not being false, must be something other than a religion.
"And why do they work so hard to put atheists in the category?"
Because they can't understand anything except as a twisted mirror image of themselves, they can only understand other belief systems as religions. Also they have a dim awareness of how ludicrous their beliefs are and try to discredit atheism by associating it with the religion label.
@Jocelyn, werewolf and Jon:
One of the fundie memes that has been spreading in the last few years that Christianity isn't a religion, it's a personal relationship with Jesus. Religions are bad belief systems, filled with rules and required beliefs. That's how they can call atheism a religion and say that Christianity isn't.
I haven't encountered a church willing to give up first amendment protections or tax-exempt status, though.
Wow, what fail. The NT is clear that religion and politics is to be kept separate. And with the whole 'christianity isn't a religion' bit, then stop bitching about your 'religious' freedoms. You don't have any. Now STFU.
The "Christianity isn't a religion" thing is thoroughly stupid by now, but it started as (IMO) a good thing - it's just been hijacked by fundies. There was a movement that wanted to back Christianity away from the heavily structured "organized religion" stuff and try to move back towards Jesus' original teachings. Unfortunately it got completely taken out of the context where it made some sense and hijacked as a way to argue for a theocracy. *headdesk*
So, in some places, you see some people using that saying to support really theocratic ideas, others using it in a much more liberal way (i.e. "we don't need all this legalism and prohibitions").
"Christianity isn't a religion."
That's right, goober.
The website's down, but this "vote for Jesus" mentality still exists.
Screw third-party candidates, if you want to change America, vote for a man who spent no time in America whatsoever and died at thirty-three.
"Besides, Christianity isn't a religion."
Excellent! So you'll start paying taxes then? We'll arrange for the IRS to be at your door first thing tomorrow morning. Somebody tell Kent Hovind!
Besides, Christianity isn't a religion.
If it isn't then it should lose its tax exempt status, and be audited like any other business.
Vote for…satan? No, he would make climate change go by even faster because of his flames. Dawkins? image
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