RE: Are the churches using atheists to gain more converts?
June 18, 2016 at 3:59 pm
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2016 at 4:01 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(June 18, 2016 at 3:44 pm)madog Wrote: [...]
I don't know the answer, but for some reason shoving the church in a back cupboard of the state virtually castrates them, whereas separating the church from state causes them to be powerful, in the actual running of the state, to the point that to actually to be voted to become part of the state you must profess strong religious beliefs
Make no mistake - many of the European churches are by no means castrated. They're able to reap huge profits and abuse political systems, only they do so without attracting much attention. American religious organizations on the other hand don't have much actual political power, because they're in competition with each other and highly localized. Sure - the word "god" is a prerequisite for any american political campaign, but it doesn't usually translate to any one particular church controlling the democratic process. It's the idea of religion (well - mainly christianity) that's powerful in US, not any one religion/denomination itself.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
