“...why is this in “news” instead of “religion?””
Spirited: In response to your question:
It is a well-researched, verified fact that anti-God statist conspirators (i.e., Frankfurt School, socialists, communists, etc) followed Saul Alinsky’s advice in overhauling Western and American civilization. With respect to the West’s traditional foundation in God, the Bible, sin, moral law, traditional family otherwise known as “religion,” he advised an incremental eclipse of Biblical religion with politics. Only politics would be allowed in the public arena.
Only politics are “politically correct.” Political correctness is the peculiarly inverted pseudo-morality of America’s left-right ‘elite class.’
Today anything remotely connected with the West’s traditional foundations-—Biblical theism, the Genesis account, morality, etc. is strictly forbidden in public discourse and relegated to “religious forums” while evolution, abortion, ‘gay’ marriage, the implementation of Sharia in American courts, open borders, rock music, the hatred of Ted Cruz by the GOP and Left, white-straight homophobia, white racism, climate change, etc. are “politics” therefore allowed in the public arena.
Americans have been deceived; their thoughts, words, and actions restrained in a psychological strait-jacket. So successfully have Americans been conditioned to “think” within the straitjacket that they try to force it upon all who refuse its’ constraints.
So you think the people who run Free Republic are slaves to political correctness because the have separate forums for discussions of religion and political activism?
Please tell me what political activism you think would be appropriate to eliminate heretics from the Christian churches.
"§ 1871. The real object of the amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to an hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government. It thus cut off the means of religious persecution, (the vice and pest of former ages,) and of the subversion of the rights of conscience in matters of religion, which had been trampled upon almost from the days of the Apostles to the present age. The history of the parent country had afforded the most solemn warnings and melancholy instructions on this head; and even New England, the land of the persecuted puritans, as well as other colonies, where the Church of England had maintained its superiority, would furnish out a chapter, as full of the darkest bigotry and intolerance, as any, which could be found to disgrace the pages of foreign annals. Apostacy, heresy, and nonconformity had been standard crimes for public appeals, to kindle the flames of persecution, and apologize for the most atrocious triumphs over innocence and virtue."
Now you propose that, on a web site dedicated to the defense of that document and it's principles, we engage as a matter of political activism a discussion on what to do about heretics in the Christian religion.
This is not lining up right.
Rock music! Right up there with abortion and Sharia law as threats to the West’s traditional foundations! Further proof I’ve been giving this rant exactly the amount of attention it deserves.
Unfortunately, even conservatives are still thinking in a strait jacket. And I don't anticipate that changing anytime soon. Certainly not when conservatives are worrying about "western civilization" and turning A-mighty G-d into a mere utilitarian prop for it instead of judging their every assumption by the Revelation of G-d.
How many "conservatives" are willing to even consider Theocracy instead of rejecting it automatically because Thomas Jefferson wouldn't have liked it?
Precisely and well said, once upon a time, Christian religion WAS news in this country. Then the liberal loons decided to stomp their feet and whine like little girls that their feelings were hurt when they had to see Santa, or Jesus in a manger in public or be reminded in ANY way that they are mere specks in God’s creation and no where near as smart as they think they are. They simply didn’t want to be reminded of repercussions.