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Is it not the duty of a "believer" to always work towards a Theocracy?
originally posted by: ignorant_ape
a reply to: InverseLookingGlass
treaty of Tripoli - deep sixes the Christian nation argument with its 1st paragraph
originally posted by: adjensen
a reply to: InverseLookingGlass
Is it not the duty of a "believer" to always work towards a Theocracy?
Boy, I sure hope not.
I'm an orthodox Christian, and if the United States started making moves toward becoming a theocracy, I'd leave. Why? Because it, and I, would be subject to the "interpretation of God's Law" by men who most likely disagree with my interpretation of God's Law.
The only acceptable theocracy would be one where the leader and decision maker was God himself, not a man who thinks he knows what God wants. And that theocracy is what we believe will be established when Christ returns to reign as the Lord of the Kingdom of God.
Until then, no, we are in the world, not of it, and the government has no business telling me who to worship or how.
Our nation was perceived and molded by men of differing religious opinions. In their wisdom they wrote founding documents that both preserved and excluded religion. The U.S. Constitution is as thoroughly secular as a document can be.
No religious document was given authority by our founding documents. Not the Bible, not the Koran, not the Book of Mormon is allowed into our courtrooms as documents with authority over our public affairs. The Ten Commandments have no more authority over the laws of our nation than “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
The topic here is the idea that the USA was founded "under God" in a literal sense. It seems beyond debate that the predominant language and cultural context of the time was Protestant Christian. I accept that as fact.
originally posted by: xDeadcowx
The topic here is the idea that the USA was founded "under God" in a literal sense. It seems beyond debate that the predominant language and cultural context of the time was Protestant Christian. I accept that as fact.
The USA is not, and never has been a "Christian Nation". You may think it is and you are entitled to your opinion. You are not, however, entitled to your own facts and the fact is that the USA is not, and never has been a "Christian Nation"
The premise of the OP is that 'Murican Christians are drifting into a mindset that they are victimized and persecuted for their attempts to subordinate laws (just or unjust) put into place by collective society to what they interpret as God's law.
The Bull stated that any land not inhabited by Christians was available to be “discovered,” claimed, and exploited by Christian rulers and declared that “the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself.” This “Doctrine of Discovery” became the basis of all European claims in the Americas as well as the foundation for the United States’ western expansion.
www.gilderlehrman.org...
And just for the record we are Americans not muricans. That just sounds stupid.