Fifty Questions That Christians Can't Answer

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The separation of church and state is not in line with Christian thinking. I believe history has shown us that Christians seek to BE the government. Also, if it is so in line with Christian thinking then why do so many Christians claim that our government is based on their "principles?" In other words, if it was the idea of Christians to separate church and state (lol), than why would they have injected their "principles" into our government, like so many Christians claim they did? (lol, part deux)

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I think everyone wantsto feel like they have control over their lives and through power( aka Government usually) we all seek it. Human thinking not Christian teachings, would have been better word usage, and I think that was the point trying to be made.
Most Christians I know go from the scriptures
1st John 2:15-17

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"15 Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. 16 For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. 17 And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever."

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and 1st Corintians 9:19-23 is usually a good example of how to follow above teachings.

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"19Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 21To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God's law but am under Christ's law), so as to win those not having the law. 22To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. 23I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize."

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vs 24 is typically seen as a blank check for evangelicals to bully people into believing, but obviously that's not the intent I read in it.

As far as, Christians claim that our government is based on t heir principles? idk I think when Christians feed the faith with nothing but a selfish desire to want to see God, instead of reason or belief then they cling to anything related to the word God or Christ. Most feel the word "secularism" wasn't even around till 1787. The only known way at the time of it's penning I believe for the creation of the universe was creationism.. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. A lot of Christians assume that since they had less science back then that the default explinations for life was religion, therefore religious people penning the constitution.I've heard the arguement about Florida's supreme court

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State v. City of Tampa, 48 So. 2d 78 (1950) "Different species of democracy have existed for more than 2,000 years, but democracy as we know it has never existed among the unchurched. A people unschooled about the sovereignty of God, the ten commandments and the ethics of Jesus, could never have evolved the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. There is not one solitary fundamental principle of our democratic policy that did not stem directly from the basic moral concepts as embodied in the Decalog and the ethics of Jesus . . . No one knew this better than the Founding Fathers."

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. I'm pretty sure it's in the declaration of independance as well as I'm sure lots of state constitutions. People are just trying figure out the reasoning behind great things and ideas to better understand them. I don't think we have a theocracy, but a constitutional republic and that should say a lot.