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Related: About this forumThe Religious Right Sells the False Choice of the State or Christianity
Christianity insists that it is in sole possession of the capital-T Truth, and that a rejection of Christianity is a rejection of Truth in favor of moral relativism. That has been the tune the Western World has danced to for centuries. Christian fundamentalists still asserts this, and just yesterday Phyllis Schlafly warned on the Eagle Forum that,
"The secularists and Progressives demand that Christians accept moral relativism, which means that each individual has a right to define his own morality. Once there is no objective morality, no universal good and evil, laws that are not acceptable to Christians, such as abortion, infanticide, easy divorce, redefinition of marriage, and euthanasia can by imposed by the government.
Christians should wake up and realize that supremacist judges and public schools have been the main engines driving the replacement of Christian morality with the utilitarianism and secularism of liberalism."
By the way, and take from this what you will, that would be the secularism of the European Enlightenment which produced the United States Constitution she is complaining about.
https://www.politicususa.com/2014/02/08/religious-sells-false-choice-state-christianity.html
"The secularists and Progressives demand that Christians accept moral relativism, which means that each individual has a right to define his own morality. Once there is no objective morality, no universal good and evil, laws that are not acceptable to Christians, such as abortion, infanticide, easy divorce, redefinition of marriage, and euthanasia can by imposed by the government.
Christians should wake up and realize that supremacist judges and public schools have been the main engines driving the replacement of Christian morality with the utilitarianism and secularism of liberalism."
By the way, and take from this what you will, that would be the secularism of the European Enlightenment which produced the United States Constitution she is complaining about.
https://www.politicususa.com/2014/02/08/religious-sells-false-choice-state-christianity.html
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The Religious Right Sells the False Choice of the State or Christianity (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Feb 2014
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CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)1. Fundies do not have a monopoly on religion. There are liberal and moderate religionists
who have totally different interpretations and views of religion.
The First Amendment was designed to protect Christians from other Christians. Bear in mind that the Pilgrims fled Europe because of persecution from other Christian denominations.
Theocracy never works because there are so many different interpretations of religion. That's why democracy and individual rights were invented.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. Fundamentalist christians insist that christianity is in sole
possession of the truth, but not all christians do.
This authors generalizations detract from his overall point, imo. Phyllis Schafly does not represent all christians.