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Originally Posted by Jimturner
That means the constitution is working. Public indicates a place meant for all Americas citizens and MUST not show favoritism to any single religion. You can't believe in the U.S. Constitution and also a one religion society. The Middle East operates that way. HELLO!
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Wrong! There is NOTHING in the constitution that states that there will be NO religion in the government. The Royalty of the UK controlled/controls the state religion in their country and the founding fathers did not want that to happen here. They were still believers. They just didn't want the same thing to happen here as in the UK with one special religion. Belief and Faith are not the same as organized religion. Religion is a discipline that incorporates belief and faith, but you can have a belief and faith without religion. There is nothing in the constitution that says you cannot have Christian faith in the government. And being a Christian is NOT a religion, it's a belief and faith. The founding fathers did not want the government to have control of religion. There is nothing saying faith cannot control how the government is run. Freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion. If the founders wanted to ban religion then they certainly wouldn't have plastered the ten commandments and Biblical verses all over every government building, memorial and shrine in the country.
You are free NOT to have a faith or belief in God, but you in your minority(not focusing on any individual here) cannot make demands that the majority abandon our beliefs. The majority dictates the NORM, not the minority. No one wishes to hurt anyone in our country, and showing our faith certainly does NOT hurt anyone. Putting restrictions on public display of our faith is violating the first Amendment. Displaying our faith on public property is not violating any Amendment, including the first Amendment. Just because the minority of non-believers is louder than the majority does not make them right. We are a country where the majority of the population base their belief on Judaeo-Christian doctrine and principles.
But, this is not a thread on the first Amendment. It is suppose to be related to the second Amendment. The second Amendment was meant to protect us from tyranny and government violations of our constitutional rights, one of which is the first Amendment. Liberals would like to take away the first amendment, but they are afraid of repercussions involving the 2nd Amendment. So, they are concentrating on destroying the 2nd Amendment.