(August 11, 2012 at 3:52 pm)freedomfighter Wrote: What a lot of people don't know is that especially for Christianity religion and politics should not be intertwined at all. If anything it forbids Christians to be involved in politics. So why is there an involvement?
I'm going to channel Sam Harris for a moment (a man who's writings struck a chord with me when I first got involved in the free thought movement).
As you believe, so you will act.
As a society collectively believes, so it will act (politics).
Ideally, religion and politics should be separate.
In reality, you can't separate them any more than you can separate your beliefs from your actions.
Some religions can't peacefully co-exist with a free and secular society. Religions that suppose a universal struggle between their god and a devil and that offer a faith-based scheme of salvation (see Christianity and Islam) will never, by their nature, be content to stay in their corner.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
