Posted on 07/28/2013 10:29:56 AM PDT by Ira_Louvin
The First Amendment states the following:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech...
To all Americans prior to the 1940's and to most Americans today the intent is clear: the Federal government shall not give preferential treatment to any one faith and the Federal government shall not stop people from practicing their religious beliefs.
Liberals confuse the banning of preferential treatment for a particular faith tradition with the banning expression by any faith tradition. The intent of the First Amendment was to allow all faiths to be freely practiced not to restrict the practices of any particular faith.
But liberalism's perspective is completely different when addressing the atheist faith tradition. That's why liberals are comfortable silencing speech that is offensive to atheists, such as a military chaplain preaching the Gospel, while simultaneously supporting government funding of atheists attacks on Christianity, such as the infamous Piss Christ piece of "art".
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They can want whatever they want. They just can’t have it under our judicial system.
Some sects of orthodox Judaism would probably want a judicial system based on Jewish law, but they just can’t have it. They use it for matters outside of the jurisdiction of the American judicial system.
It’s about a lot of atypical people converting to Islam.
When they grow in numbers, they’ll demand sharia.
As has happened before, even in large areas once part of Christendom.
Atheists are paving the way for the fall of western civilization. Atheists will have their way and Christianity will be reduced to a powerless oppressed underground minority. And once western civilization falls, atheists will enjoy living under the heels of their moslem masters.
They can demand that we worship penguins. It will be just as effective.
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